In retrospect, it was a pretty wild opportunity to attend a highschool like Stanton College Prep in my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
I remember the bios of many of my teachers before they came to teach at Stanton: successful entrepreneurs, US Navy nuclear engineers, professional magicians (lol).
They were all teaching for the love of learning. And it was contaigous.
I loved calculus because Mr. Doerty showed so much passion for it.
I loved physics because Dr. Raj loved to joke about his accent by asking "Watt is the unit of power?"
Florida State University
The beautiful brick campus and energy of FSU has an impact on me when we dropped off my sister for move-in day.
So I never really considered going out of state for college.
I picked Mechanical Engineering because I liked the course outline; mechatronics, thermal fluids, dynamics, let's go!
Senior Design Project
The capstone project of undergraduate engineering typically involves investigating a research problem for one of the in-house labs, or a local company.
My project required measuring the exact thickness of a heat roller used in battery production. These two big metal rollers heated up and then melted down plastic into thin layers, and by thin I mean a micrometer scale, and for reference a human hair is 50-100 micrometers thick.
This project helped me realize that nearly every mechanical engineering problem is the application of sensors to measure the real world, and then actuators to manipulate it.
More coming soon
More coming soon!