Alexa Jakob

Politics and Philosophy of the Crescent Street Bike Lane

Benchmarking Josephson Junctions for Scalable Quantum Computing

For my senior capstone project at the Cooper Union, my classmates Tamar Bacalu, Mark Koszykowski, and I worked with New York University’s Shabani Lab for Quantum Materials and Devices. It was very exciting to be able to work with PhD students and postdocs in a new lab. In this blog post, I’ll give some background on the work and talk about our tentative results.

How I Prepared for Electrical Engineering Interviews as a New Grad

Ethics Explorer: A Web App for Thinking About Ethical Engineering Careers

Designing an Open-Source Baseboard to Empower Hardware Makers

I recently gave a talk on the design process for My Jetson Nano Baseboard, my intern project over the course of my two summers working at NVIDIA. I’ve included the slides below. I chose to discuss this project because it is the most large-scale project I’ve worked on, and I was able to develop skills from the beginning to the end of the product design process.