Our biggest outcome, our product, my
product of the professor is my students.
And so we have to create students that
can adapt to those future technologies.
They are going to be the engineers that
engineer those technologies and that
forces us to have the foresight to
predict what that future looks like.
I first heard about ASU during a summer
internship at ETEP in California
because many of the employees there I
graduated from here, and what really
convinced me to come to ASU was the large
number and breadth of classes offered in
the field as well as the emphasis that
the ECEE department puts on research and
the advancement of technology.
ASU has consistently been regarded as one of the
most progressive universities in the
country. It has a focus on
interdisciplinary problem-solving and
responsibly capturing the value its
research generates for society. That's
really resonated with me.
So you learn how to learn more than anything else and
it gives you that gives you credibility
in industry because we hope in our jobs
that we will learn new things every day,
every week, it would be a very boring job
if we didn't and as a masters or PhD
student we learn how to learn and that's
what that program teaches you on top of
you know your niche expertise.
Getting a PhD require hard work and takes a long
time, four to five, years but your school can
smooth the path by providing you
whatever you need, such as a sufficient
amount of funding so you can focus on
research without worrying about living
costs.
I've seen students undergo a
transformation while they earn a PhD and
that transformation is one which
students start as what we think of as
students, coming to a professor and
looking for answers to questions, to an
inversion of that relationship where I
by the end of their degree, I'm always
learning from my students and not
the other way around. That's really
exciting when they come out of the lab
and have generated new knowledge that I
didn't expect and have never seen before.
As our world evolves more people expect
higher performance systems while our
access to critical resources diminishes.
Many legacy systems won't support this
growing demand and my goal is to develop
the tools to create sustainable
technologies that remain relevant in the
future.
So the question becomes can I
expand from being able to sort of apply
the knowledge I've gained to solving
problems for which solutions are known
to how do we solve problems for which
there are no known solutions or perhaps
problems that are ill posed altogether.
It's worthwhile because it lends you
that credibility, it allows you the time
to develop all of that and learn all
that fundamental knowledge you need to
become an expert in this one area that
you choose. So if you have a genuine
curiosity about a particular topic area
and you're intrigued about the
possibility or intrigued with the
possibility of pushing the
state-of-the-art forward, pushing what's
known about a particular area forward,
then I think you should strongly
consider a graduate degree and
specifically a graduate degree here at
ASU
