Question:
Please describe your interests and aspirations in engineering. What experiences have influenced you?
Answer:
I took my first programming course in high school. There, I discovered I enjoyed programming immensely, and was reasonably proficient in it. I found myself thinking of how to solve many everyday problems with code. In my free time, I coded several programs, including a game that incorporated physics and various graphical elements. I followed up my interest by taking several more courses through high school and onto college.
Once in college I began to see all the opportunities that were available to me, and I decided to explore avenues that interested me more thoroughly. I switched over to Electrical and Computer Engineering for a while and did several projects, including building computers and robots. After two semesters though, I found that it was Computer Science that was my passion and resumed going after my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Then a few years ago, my close friend Serge was killed by a drunk driver. It was a devastating moment for all of his friends and family. I decided then that I wanted to use what I was good at, namely computer programming, to help ensure that no one would have to experience tragedies such as this.
I want to engineer software that helps people. I want to develop intelligence for cars so that the human variable is removed, making roads safer. I want to build complex and thorough simulations so I can confidently release a product to manufacturing. I want to make this world a less dangerous place through sound engineering and hard work. But most of all, I want to be accepted to this great university so that I may learn how to be this excellent engineer that is able to understand the fundamentals and theories that will allow me to see my dreams come to fruition.
Please describe your interests and aspirations in engineering. What experiences have influenced you?
Answer:
I took my first programming course in high school. There, I discovered I enjoyed programming immensely, and was reasonably proficient in it. I found myself thinking of how to solve many everyday problems with code. In my free time, I coded several programs, including a game that incorporated physics and various graphical elements. I followed up my interest by taking several more courses through high school and onto college.
Once in college I began to see all the opportunities that were available to me, and I decided to explore avenues that interested me more thoroughly. I switched over to Electrical and Computer Engineering for a while and did several projects, including building computers and robots. After two semesters though, I found that it was Computer Science that was my passion and resumed going after my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Then a few years ago, my close friend Serge was killed by a drunk driver. It was a devastating moment for all of his friends and family. I decided then that I wanted to use what I was good at, namely computer programming, to help ensure that no one would have to experience tragedies such as this.
I want to engineer software that helps people. I want to develop intelligence for cars so that the human variable is removed, making roads safer. I want to build complex and thorough simulations so I can confidently release a product to manufacturing. I want to make this world a less dangerous place through sound engineering and hard work. But most of all, I want to be accepted to this great university so that I may learn how to be this excellent engineer that is able to understand the fundamentals and theories that will allow me to see my dreams come to fruition.
