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Joshua will start his career working as a project manager for construction company Whiting-Turner, but he didn’t know he had an inclination for managing projects until he came to Stevens.
“Most of the work I did in high school was individual; Stevens is where I really started to work in groups. Going through each design spine class, I started to see myself in the role of managing, of focusing on managing time, meeting deadlines, and asking what we needed to complete the next step of a project. At Stevens there’s an emphasis on paying attention to detail, of making sure whatever you’re submitting is 100 percent accurate.”
Joshua attended Stevens thanks to a William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship through STEP, the Stevens Technical Enrichment Program. He grew up with a single mother and two younger siblings. “My mom always worked two jobs, so my getting scholarships took a lot of stress off her. It took a lot of stress off me too, because I didn’t have to worry about the future, I could just focus on doing my best right now.”
Since coming Stevens, Joshua has kept busy as a brother in Lambda Upsilon Lambda and as a member of the Latin American Association, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Gear & Triangle, and Off Center, the university’s comedy troupe. He has also served as an orientation leader, a peer mentor, and a student ambassador.
Among the colleges he applied to, he was most interested in Stevens because of its prestige and return on investment. A class on thermo-engineering with Professor Hamid Hadim convinced him he made the right choice. “I started to see I was capable of the work here. Professor Hadim was able to teach me the material in a way I was able to understand and say, ‘I can do this’.”
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