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Experience 1: Fall 2024 GCSP Research Stipend
Experience 1: Fall 2024 GCSP Research Stipend
The first experience I was involved in for my talent competency was the GCSP Research Stipend. This stipend awarded recipients who sought to complete research in their chosen theme, to which mine was sustainability. Under the mentorship of Dr. Xiaofan Yuan, I completed a project using graph coloring algorithms to determine the optimized locations to reintroduce endangered species to the wild. Graphs were created from wildlife data of Northern Arizona where each node represented an animal and each edge represented a predator-prey relationship, and coloring algorithms were used to separate predator from prey. To complete this, I used Python and the NetworkX library, a popular tool used to visualize, create, and analyze graphs. At the end of the semester, my work was presented during the Fall 2024 Fulton Forge Symposium.
As biodiversity and conservation is an essential part of sustainability, this experience related strongly to my theme. The project was a valuable experience that combined my three interests of sustainability, computer science, and math. I enjoyed that the GCSP research stipend specifically allowed me to research with a professor outside of the Fulton engineering school, as Dr. Yuan is part of the math department. Not only did the experience teach me technical skills in Python and Visual Studio code, it also taught me soft skills of public speaking and presenting my research to a general audience, making my work more accessible. Both the technical and soft skills will be applicable to career goals of being software engineer in the industry, as well as involving myself in other extracurriculars such as clubs.
Experience 2: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Experience 2: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Senior Capstone Project
Senior Capstone Project
The second experience I was involved in for my talent competency was my Senior Capstone project. This experience spanned two semesters, where I worked in a team of five computer science seniors with the non-profit organization Grey-Box on Project Codex. The project aimed to increase digital and medical accessibility as an application that translated medical terminology such as symptoms and prescriptions into different languages. Our team was specifically responsible for the middleware and backend portion of the project, which involved implementing the database of different languages and terms to be translated as well as how to take input in from the application's user interface.
During this project we engaged in several industry practices, such as the Agile/Scrum workflow and GitHub version control. As a student who plans on pursuing an industry career after college, these experiences were valuable to my professional development and my preparation to enter the industry. The subject of medical and digital accessibility is related to my GCSP theme of sustainability in that it follows an initiative of social sustainability, ensuring that users such as global health clinics have equitable access to translation resources for patients. Furthermore, my capstone project built upon the skills of teamwork and communicating engineering concepts to different audiences, which I developed during other GCSP experiences such as FSE150 and the GCSP Research Stipend.
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