My high school physics teacher prompted me to look into engineering. Then another graduate from my high school who was getting her doctorate in optics at Arizona State gave a presentation to our physics class about her research, which is what inspired me to choose my major. She had a hologram for a business card!

Taking physics alongside calculus in high school really helped me through my freshman year. Learning to apply math to real life situations made science much more understandable and valuable to me.

I have friends working at Valeo, NAL, Grote Industries and Gentex. A lot of my other peers have chosen to go to graduate school after their time at Rose.

My job involves a lot of travel. As an applications engineer, I get to travel to job sites to train customers on my product and oversee installations. I love the networking and experiences I have gained as a result of this. It allows me to exercise what I learned at school while also getting to utilize my outgoing personality.