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Career Application Essay

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I am a second-year student at Purdue University working toward a B.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering. Going forward, I am interested in studying and working with spacecraft design, testing, manufacturing, and other means of applying aerospace engineering, making NASA the prime site to join to support humanity with a new hope of future innovation and exploration.
My educational background has prepared me for the role of becoming an engineer. Thus far into my academic career, more of my notable experiences have been with teams. Academic programs, such as Honors First Year Engineering, were built entirely around the idea of collaborating with small teams to take design projects without assistance. Outside of the classroom, I dedicated …show more content…

All of these experiences have been used multiple times to start projects from the beginning to end from no previous background. Having led most of these experiences, I have experience directing others and strictly following guidelines by designing, creating, operating, and installing the technologies as planned. But, I also have hands-on experience. Through one semester of training, I have experience with the CNC mill, lathe, laser engraver, soldering gun, arc welder, and more from the Purdue Artisan and Fabrication Laboratory. I have so far received half the training to become a teaching assistant to assist new students. In addition to this, I was in a manufacturing class in high school where I used manual lathes and manual mills, providing extra knowledge for learning CNC while at …show more content…

I have experience with using MATLAB, CATIA, Autodesk Inventor, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Notepad++, PuTTy, Arduino, GanntProject, Bash, and Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and Outlook. I am able to type over an average of 70wpm. I have strong experience with Python, MATLAB, and C programming, along with some simple experience with HTML, CSS, and Java. I have also used Git for team engineering projects. Along with this, we also used Linux on Raspberry Pi’s and bootable USBs to code a robot. Recently in my free time I have been trying software such as AGI STK 11, ENVI 5.4, and GMAT R2017a. I am debating if any of this software should be used in my group Aerospace Design

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