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What is the best thing about your major?
Mechanical engineering is so cool! You get to work with wind tunnels, see how airplanes work—see how things work. You get to build cars! What other major lets you work on a project and then drive it?
What has been your best class so far?
Thermo-fluid science lab, the class where you get to use the wind tunnel. In the upper-level classes, you get to build stuff. You learned all these things in the first two years, and now you get to use them.
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
Leading our Mini Baja car team to first place internationally, which OSU had never done before. It was a really big deal. It makes Oregon State look really good in the automotive industry—it’s good for students and good for the university. And we won by a lot.
What’s your big dream?
I have a job at Hewlett-Packard when I graduate, and I want to have some major accomplishments there—I might be getting a patent for a project I’m working on there. I like managing people. And on the side, I want to build my own stuff.
What’s it like at OSU?
In engineering, the professors are great. I’ve heard that at other schools, the first three years are taught by graduate students. Here, you’re taught by professors. At my summer internship with HP, I worked with students from these select “prestigious” schools. They didn’t have hands-on experience, and they couldn’t do some things.
