Spring 2010 Schedule
EE 411 Senior Design (Capstone)
EE 486 Neural Engineering
EE 491 Independent Study with Remus with Chemometrics and Spectroscopy
HIST 352 European History (Last knowledge Area Requirement)
CM 132 General Chemistry II
Yup, somehow I’ve gone this far without a Freshman course and my advisor never caught this, cannot test out and will be taking a freshman class! Welding, Lathes, Milling, Master CAM, Advanced Lathes and CNC machining shop courses for zero credits for university certification. By the end of the semester, I hope to have completed all the shop certification courses given at Clarkson University.
Fall 2009 Schedule
EE 451 Digital Control
EE 311 Electrical Engineering Laboratory II
EE 331 Energy Conversions
ES 220 Statics (Last Engineering Science Requirement)
HIST 394 History of Medicine in Europe & North America
-In addition to actual classes, I have a few zero credit classes and additions. I will be receiving official machining certification, allowing me to be in the Machine shop without supervision! I will have to take a few safety classes and welding, and they will show up on the transcript as zero credits. The summer internship will also show up as a zero credit requirement course.
Internships and Co-ops
My class is the first class at Clarkson to have the internship/Co-op requirement to graduate. I have applied furiously to companies such as General Dynamics, ITT, NASA and a few others. I have already had an interview with GD-AIS, but that wasn’t what I was looking for. I have another interview with them for another position, Hardware, and hope that I can land this one. I am actually going to the facility in North Carolina on Sunday, April, 10, 2009, and interviewing face to face with David Macchiarolo, an electrical engineer within electro-optical engineering and supervisor. I return that Monday, all expenses paid. I think this is pretty lucky considering a good deal of my friends are feeling the pressure and I have come this close to a company as reputable and amazing as General Dynamics. Hope this interview goes well and I get the position. Everyone at Clarkson keeps reminding me that General Dynamics has a reputation for hiring permanently their favorite interns, and that I might just end up working for this company if they like me. Exciting!
I was flown down to North Carolina, and met in person a few engineers and General Dynamics workers during an on site interview. Everyone was extremely nice, both within the company and people I talked to during my stay. I hear back from them in a week.
I landed the internship and start May 11th. The details are being worked out and I have the chance to go home for a week. I am really excited to have this opportunity, and equally scared of messing up.
My friend, Kevin Hamilton also landed an internship with General Dynamics, but a different branch, Armament and Technical Products, in Vermont. My friend, Kevin Radley, landed a Co-op with Husky Injection Molding in Vermont too.
Senior Year
I was the last person to land one of the townhouses! My roommates seem really awesome, and I believe I will get along with them very well. Everyone I know in my class got an apartment, so getting food and getting fed off the meal plan is gonna be easy, including Kevin giving us rides to Walmart to restock. The plans are all made and the apartment will be a nice change. I plan to return to school early as always to help with Student Orientation Services, S.O.S., (known to students as “Shift Our Shit”) and get first picks on my room and claim my space in the apartment. The time is almost here and everything seems to be shaping up very well!
Spring 2009 Schedule
It is the first time in a very long time that I am back down to 15 credits. My classes for the 2009 Spring semester are:
EE381 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
EE211 ECE Lab I
EE324 Dynamical Systems
EE401 Digital Signal Processing (graduate level course as well)
MA331 Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems
Hopefully this semester will be a little less hectic than the past where averaging 18 to 19 credits and 4-6 hours sleep. I am TAing a class and being active in a few clubs. Thinking about it, I might just have the same amount of sleep but more fun during the waking hours!
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
I am TAing ES100, Introduction to Engineering Use of Computers, section 9 lecture, 8am Tuesdays and Thursdays with Professor Hailey Shen and run the laboratory, 8am Wednesdays. I keep track of about 30+ students for the spring 2009 semester.
I might be TAing for Prof. Navasca in Boundary Value Problems next semester, since she extended the offer, but that depends on my schedule.
Research
I conducted research with Professor Luttman of the Math Department in the area of Image Processing using Matlab, the ultimate goal is analyzing biological data in conjunction with some biological mathematicians in New Zealand. We were never able to work something out and this became more of a class on image processing techniques and less of a research project, but I learned quite a bit.
I have conducted research in the past with the psychology department my first two years of University with Professor Fodor and under the supervision of the Head of Psychology Department, Prof. Dowman, on human subjects and operating an Electromyography machine because the interface was through an analog oscilloscope.
Senior year, I am working with Professor Remus in the area of Spectroscopy and Chemometrics.
Clubs and Activities on campus
With taking 15 credits I feel I have more time to do other things, and so I have picked up a few activities:
