Princeton Mechanical and Aerospace
Undergraduate Student Council President
Background
At the end of my internship at Princeton's Thermodynamics Laboratory in summer 2015, I learned a lot about working with electronics. I had just finished 2 months of lab work after teaching myself how to use basic lab equipment to build and diagnose circuits and experimental set ups. Before the internship, I didn't really know how to use an oscilloscope besides pressing auto to measure a signal and even then I didn't fully understand how to use that information. I wanted to address these issues so I went to approached the undergraduate administrator about my concerns for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) curriculum and soon after became the Undergraduate MAE COuncil President and the AIAA/ASME Princeton chapter.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Undergraduate Student Council interacts with the faculty and makes recommendations for improvement to the undergraduate program and undergraduate student life. The listed accomplishments under the undergraduate student council are:
- Creation of a Departmental Summer Research Fellowship Program
- Provided recommendations for the new Sophomore Integrated Laboratory which has now become a permanent part of the curriculum
- Through a proposal for funding, established an MAE computing cluster (Student Resource Center) by purchasing additional high-power computing equipment which will support engineering software platforms.
My Accomplishments
As president I conducted student surveys and led forums with professors, leading to the creation of the hands-on lab course " Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Methods and Skills." After 2 years of being president, the incoming MAE class increased from 35 students to 65.
Picking up the MAE Class of 2019 just after they chose their majors