Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
[ Music ]
>> [background music] My name is Ali Guarneros Luna.
And here at [inaudible] I'm a support engineer.
I read something, I saw something on TV
when I was probably five or seven years old
and it just impacted me.
And I knew from that day on that I want
to be an Aerospace Engineer.
When I came to San Jose, San Jose State
at Aerospace Engineering and I was just lucky enough
where I was living, the location,
you know San Jose State was able to give me the opportunity to go
and pursue the dream that I had when I was growing up.
The TechEdSat is a small satellite that we are going
to put in the International Space Station this year.
What happened is that because of the students working,
at San Jose State, working
with the [inaudible] saw the potential
of having those students build something and develop
and put together something small in fast mode.
Normally projects that are very small that are going
to the International Space Station, it takes about four
and a half years to go through the whole process.
We are doing that in about nine months.
We, as engineers we are the solvers
of the problems of the world.
Scientists will not ask the lawyers or the doctors
or the teachers to solve problems,
they come to the engineers to solve the problems.
So not just [inaudible] but you know United States needs many
engineers to solve all the problems that are coming,
encountering as you know the time comes by.
I know that my location and public sector,
San Jose State, was very rich.
I had professors from NASA Ames
who were developing you know product, that it was going
to be flying, and their knowledge grade students
that have the skills and the knowledge, not just knowledge
but have the skills to be able to work in the industry.
[ Music ]