Most people would be satisfied excelling in one demanding field. Quinn Eatinger isn’t most people.
Eatinger, an undergraduate engineering management student in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, is the starting goaltender for the ASU women’s hockey team, president of the Sun Devil Motorsports Formula SAE team and has contributed to humanitarian engineering efforts through the ASU chapter of Engineers Without Borders. She’s been featured on ESPN, represented the U.S. at the FISU Winter World University Games in Italy, and made 70 saves in a single overtime thriller — and that’s just one chapter of her story.
“I consider myself a go-getter,” Eatinger says. “I’m super optimistic, and I think I’m pretty cool.”
From LEGO sets to leadership
Eatinger grew up in the heart of downtown Chicago, and her passion for engineering started early — with a The Hobbit-themed Lego set and a fascination with Minecraft. That early love of building evolved into a deeper interest in how things work, eventually leading her to an engineering track in high school and then to ASU, where she found the perfect mix of size, community and opportunity.
Eatinger wasn’t just looking for an engineering school; she needed somewhere she could keep stopping pucks and chasing goals.
“I needed a big school with women’s hockey and a good engineering program,” she says. “As soon as I stepped foot on ASU’s campus, I knew, ‘This was it.’”
Eatinger entered the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools, as an engineering management major — a choice that turned out to be the perfect match for her strengths.
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