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GUEST SPEAKER
Year: 2022
Speakers: Christiano and Carrie
This lecture were about the importance of materials engineering. Carrie was a geotechnical engineer and spoke of how she had to study the soil of a particular area under the influence of certain loads. This is especially important in the Bay Area when in the face of water and earthquake hazards. Geographical hazards include a kind of structural instability a building can experience such as erosion that leads to a landslide that could result in both losses of property and life. In California, some of the most common geographical hazards include liquefaction, faults, and settlements. In order to test this, there are various exploitation methods such as evacuation test pita, drill/core borings, drill hand auger borings, dig shallow potholes, and more. These methods require specific tools such as solid/ hollow stem augers, and rotary wash/ mud rotary, split spoon samplers, CPT probes, hand augers, and shovels. BSK has been in the Bay Area since 1984. They are currently exploring porous concrete and how its draining and filtering properties for water work like styrofoam, or how styrofoam itself can be incorporated in manufacturing as it adds no additional weight. This is in exploration due to how concrete is continuously exposed to water and they want to know how it can be used to hydrate it rather than corrode it.
GUEST SPEAKER
Year: 2022
Speaker: Maynard Holliday Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Critical Technologies (DCTO (CT))
Mr. Holliday was appointed by President Obama in August 2014. In 2021 he was a member 0f the senior defense department. He spoke of the Chernobyl incident, where the worst nuclear accident occurred in Ukraine. The checkup on the system went bad and the cooling water was pumped in order to prevent overheating but they lost almost all the control rods and the heat melted the core reactor, leading to the explosion that led to 15 days of exposure. Now there is a new structure to keep it contained, known as a sarcophagus. He traveled to Kyiv to understand what to do to help contain the material. He worked on designing a robot along with weapons scientists. The goal was to map the most hazardous rooms and take core fuel samples, as well as the size and reduce debris. The robot had to survive in an ambient environment, be man-portable, have minimal impact, and have a 1 cm optical resolution. They used lead mirrors to achieve that resolution, as well as fiber optics conduction. His journey began with inspiration from star trek leading him to Carnegie Mellon, then Stanford, and Apple. This project can be seen in so many other robots such as the DaVinci, SONY Aibo, and laser target insertion system. He is working on providing equal access to emerging technologies such as AI and synthetic biology without causing international conflicts. He is focused on the US industrial-based and emerging workforce.
GUEST SPEAKER
Year: 2023
Speakers: Tu Trihn, Justin Ho, Chris Carpio
These engineers work at Illumina, a company founded by Francis deSouza in 1998. Tu Trinh is a service and support manager who studied electrical engineering, computer science, and business management at the University of Texas, the University of Phoenix, and CSU East Bay. Justin Ho is a field service engineer who studied bio-system engineering at UC Davis. Chris Carpio is also a field service engineer who studied mechanical engineering at Santa Clara University. The company focuses on Geneology and Reproductive Health to help hospitals and colleges, especially Stanford. They have developed instruments such as the Nova Seq to help with gene sequencing. A field service engineer at this company explores different sites and works with customers to find solutions to problems they have working with the machine. For installations, they help customers with the initial set-up and also with repairs to help fix problems related to the machines. Customer service is key to the company where field service engineers such as Mr. Ho and Mr. Carpio represent companies and continue their lifelong journey to learn every day. Another engineer, Gregory Crawford, is a senior field service engineer who studied bio-engineering at UC Merced with a minor in applied mathematics. He worked with educating clients on the 4 steps to run the machines. The first step is library preparation where data is taken. Then comes cluster generation to help the machine to read. The comes the step-by-step sequencing that then results in data analysis to give answer
GUEST SPEAKER
Year: 2023
Speaker: Shayan from Purdue
Shayan was a Dublin High alum who studied at Purdue for Mechanical Engineering. He took IED, POE, DE, and CIM, the 4 Engineering design classes in the academy, and participated in Inventeam and SpaceX when he was at Dublin High. In college, he participated in numerous clubs and got involved in opportunities early s he could participate in events where he got to meet people. His philosophy is to maximize and prioritize. He started a business in high school and it is these side hustles that have also helped him throughout college. His project was to find a better way to carry a camera and he developed the BLIP Camera Carry System that culminated in his senior design project. Currently, he works at SpaceX, an opportunity he received through grinding in college attending so many career fairs, and creating numerous (70+) applications but it is the projects that he has been involved in from high school that got him into these internships and his current job.
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