Katherine Reiss

Katherine Reiss is from New Canaan, CT and is pursuing a career in Software Engineering.  After entering Wake Forest Engineering with an expectation to focus on the biomedical field, Katherine experienced a broad range of Engineering disciplines and decided that Software Engineering was her true interest.  Katherine is a member of the Interactive Museum Projection System Capstone senior design team and has spent her senior year designing and developing an interactive, educational application and hardware system for a museum exhibit at Kaleideum Children’s Museum in Winston-Salem. She and her team worked under the guidance of Dr. Melissa Kenny, Dr. Lauren Lowman, and Dr. Olga Pierrakos (Wake Forest Engineering).  In addition to her senior design work, Katherine has also participated in undergraduate research, focusing on nanopore technology under Dr. Adam Hall (Wake Forest School of Medicine). Over three years in the lab, she became an experienced researcher and even contributed to a publication. 

Outside of the classroom, Katherine has been an active member of the Wake Forest student body.  She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and held the leadership position of Recording Secretary.  She has also been on several committees within the chapter, including the New Member Committee and the Academic Excellence Committee.  Katherine is also a member of the Society of Women Engineers. She spent a few semesters as a teaching assistant for a Mechanics and Materials Science course.  Her favorite memory while in Wake Forest Engineering was working on the application development in her Senior Design Capstone project. 

Katherine is working as an Associate Software Engineer at Gartner in their two-year rotational LAUNCH program following her graduation. 

Minors – Computer Science, Mathematics 

Undergraduate Research – Nanopore Technology Research under Dr. Adam Hall 

Leadership –WFU Teaching Assistant, Kappa Kappa Gamma Recording Secretary, New Member Committee, Academic Excellence Committee 

Other – WFU Teaching Assistant, Member of Society of Women Engineers, Member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Intern for ByteSize Learning