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From portable solar generators to race cars: U of T student makes the world his classroom Left to right: Rushay Naik, Ben Sprenger, Tanvi Shetty, Hannah Rundle; Ahmed Mahmoud and Namjil Enebish in Mongolia in the summer of 2019 (photo by Rushay Naik)
Engineering can take you places. Just ask fourth-year University of Toronto student
Ben Sprenger, who spent two weeks in the summer of 2019 talking to Mongolian nomads about portable solar generators.
“I wanted to apply the skills that I had learned through classes and extracurriculars to solving important global problems,” says Sprenger, who studies mechanical engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. “I was also really interested in the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team with people in other fields, such as [Faculty of] Arts & Science students.”