>> [Background music] Electrical engineering
stands at a time of extraordinary opportunity
as we rise to meet the changing information,
communication, transportation, energy, medical,
and environmental needs of our society.
Electrical engineers are changing the world.
From enormous electrical power grids that
span continents to nanomachines embedded in
living cells.
>> Ramses: My name is Ramses Eduardo Alcaide
Aguirre.
I was born in Mexico, and I came up here to
the United States when I was five years old.
I study electrical engineering, and I'm a
senior.
And my primary goal is to work within the
field of prosthetics to combine the nervous
system with the control systems that I've
been learning up here.
Think of all the things that have an electrical
current running through them.
That is electrical engineering.
The most important thing in engineering that
I feel that you can have is creativity.
Creativity and curiosity because you'll hear
the story a million times where a mother will
say, yeah, you know, I knew my son was going
to be an engineer because as soon as we bought
our toaster, he took it apart and put it together
with the TV.
And that whole idea where you're able - where
you're okay with taking things apart, you're
okay with experimenting and exploring and
even failing sometimes.
That is the engineering spirit, the passion.
The main reason I chose engineering is actually
because I really enjoy the ability to have
a hacker mentality where I can take things
apart, put them together and create something
amazing.
So the research I've been able to do within
engineering is very multidisciplinary.
So this is the artificial all-nerve branch
with modern electronics project I worked on.
Now, here we have the very first circuit that's
very simplified.
We only used switches.
I was also able to work on a prosthetic leg
while in Brazil.
I've also been able to work within the aerospace
field, developing a hybrid propulsion system
the Ukraine is actually going to implement
in their rockets, which they haven't changed
in about 50 years.
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The reality of it is, if you are passionate
about succeeding in life, anybody can do it.
And that's the true message behind engineering.
Engineering doesn't - the idea of engineering
doesn't discriminate who you are.
It's just whether you have the drive and the
passion to be creative.
That's the real thing that'll put your foot
through the door.
