Mechanical Engineering
and
Master's of Business Administration

Ketchikan, AK

Sophomore and graduate student

A compilation of reasons: low cost and available financial aid, the connection to NASA through the Alaska Space Grant Program, the ability to be around familiar faces, and the accessibility to and encouragement to undertake undergraduate research.

The campus size and ease of integrating with the UAF community.

Read books on current politics and historical events, make yummy pies, do random and crazy stuff with my friends, go for walks.

Honors Student Council, Orientation Leader, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, Alaska Space Grant Program, Alaska Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee, Aurora Borealis Rotaract, Conference of Young Alaskans Steering Committee, Golden Key Honor Society, Rural Student Services Volunteer Tutor

If you're a mechanical engineering major, definitely take advantage of the opportunity to visit with Dean Goering and Department Chair Peterson. Both are incredibly easy to talk to people, but more importantly they can give you a great idea of what is going on in all facets of engineering and expand your ideas of what you can become involved in.

Building circuit boards for the CUBESat Satellite project through the Alaska Space Grant program. (Definitely not something I would have thought I would be doing if you asked me 6 months ago.)

Either work at NASA as an aeronautical engineer or work in the oil industry of Alaska as a reservoir engineer.