<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/alexandra-iozzo.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>08/11/2025</pubDate><title>New Graduate Shares Journey Leading to Role at One of the World’s Leading Medical Device Companies</title><description>Alexandra Iozzo ’25 shares how the University of New Haven’s mechanical engineering program and a strong alumni network helped her land a role as a quality engineer at Medtronic, one of the world’s leading medical device companies.</description><hide-description/><author>Caitlin Truesdale</author><author-details>Office of Marketing and Communications</author-details><hide-author/><date>August 11, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2025/alexandra-iozzo.jpeg" alt="Alexandra Iozzo ’25"/></image><image-caption>Alexandra Iozzo ’25</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>class-of-2025</tag><tag>college-engineering</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>office-alumni</tag><tag>program-ug-mechanical-engineering</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>