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Magnetics is a very mysterious field.
There's a lot that's known.
And there's lots being investigated
about spin and electron, momentum.
Things that create this phenomenon
magnetics as we know it.
And a lot of that really is not well understood right now.
Magnetics is a pretty multidisciplinary field
with applications ranging from
power generation all the way to
biomedical applications and equipment.
There are a whole lot of
areas and places where you can go
with a degree in electrical engineering.
For an undergraduate student
we don't expect them to have the background.
We want good students who are motivated,
who are curious, who want to learn
because I don't value education
where they're not able to transition
from one kind of job to another.
They should be able to adapt and
move as the technology changes.
So I hope that, you know, that students
who don't have a background can still come
into this lab, learn the things that
would make them better engineers overall
so that they can go on and do good things.
Currently I'm working on magnetic biosensing,
a project that I'm spearheading.
Even as an undergraduate they have plenty
of projects for people to work on and take the lead on
which is really nice because you learn skills you don't
get in just your education.
Specifically presentation skills.
Having to know everything about my project,
so at any point, if they ask me a question,
I can explain what it is I'm doing,
why I'm doing it and in the timeline.
The biggest draw about this field
is that we're working with the
fundamentals of electronics
and a huge industry.
You know, this is the basis of how
everything we know today is built.
And I'm working with and learning more and more
about the very fundamentals of it.
We're looking at the atomic level.
We're looking at really really small devices
and this is where it all comes from,
this is the basis of everything.