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Its Official, Dr. Kratz!!!!

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jkratz5

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My journey to this great state started 9 years ago when I decided to pursue an engineering degree at The University of Iowa. Never in a million years did I think it would end with a doctoral degree, but yesterday it became official when I passed my dissertation defense. It was an awesome feeling to hear the words "congratulations Dr. Kratzberg" come out of my advisors mouth and quite a relief.

It has been a long road and it wouldn't have been possible without all the support from my family and friends. I wanted to say thanks to all my friends on this site for the encouraging words over the years and especially over the last few months when things got really stressful.

Kratz
 
Whatever Dr Chithead, you haven't been 'THAT' busy. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

Well done.

By the end of the summer you'll be a danged non resident bow hunter, but you can share a tree with me any day.
 
Congrats, that is a hell of an accomplishment. Which engineering background? Whats next? Post-doc, teaching, industry?
 
"Doctor"...DOCTOR...."Doctor"...."doctor"...."Docter"


Thats how the movie goes anyways.

Congrats Kratz
 
Thanks for the kind words fellas.

turtl, I choose Iowa because I didn't want to be a clown, j/k. I graduated both undergrad and grad school in biomedical engineering and Iowa was the closest school to home with an accredited biomedical engineering program, besides northwestern (and I wasn't paying that kind of cash).

As for the future, I am going to industry but someday I would like to return to academia and teach. Not sure if this is going to be possible as going to industry and then coming back to academia is still a pretty large hurdle to overcome due to the lack of publications and such that comes with working in industry.
 
Congrats! You have obviously put in a tremendous amount of time and work into achieving this goal!
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jkratz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As for the future, I am going to industry but someday I would like to return to academia and teach. Not sure if this is going to be possible as going to industry and then coming back to academia is still a pretty large hurdle to overcome due to the lack of publications and such that comes with working in industry. </div></div>

What, you don't want to jump on that "publish or perish treadmill" called academia? Then there is the endless grant writing.....

Industry sounds like a good move to me! Pay should be better, too. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
 
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