Introduction to a Future Computer Engineer

My name is Adrian Phua and I am a computer engineering student at the University of Oklahoma. I (hopefully) will be graduating this spring at the end of this semester. I believe the coolest thing about my major is that we get to work with both computer programming and the electronics that goes to support it. The best class I took last semester was Digital Design Lab. It was my favorite because it really blended all the things we had learned in our major. We worked with both analog electronics as well as microcontrollers to create all sorts of cool projects. An example of one such cool project would be my memory game knock off.

(Image Information: Microcontroller Memory Game; photo from December 2017)

It would allow you to select a song and then it would play notes from the song for you to play back to it from a keypad. As you followed along the notes from the song would get longer until you were finally able to play the whole song from memory. Then if you lasted that long the computer would play the song back to you as a reward. Other than working at my internship all break the only real exciting thing I got to do was go to my friend’s wedding in Colorado. It was really nice seeing them so happy together. This is a photo my friends and I took together while getting ready for the wedding.

(Image information: My friends and I getting ready for the wedding; photo from January 2018)

I really like watching movies and I own a moviepass which has allowed me to see every single movie in theaters. So I probably have seen any recent movie you can think of. My long time career goals are to eventually work for a civilian space company and put something that I worked on in space. Whether it be a microcontroller helping to flush a space toilet or a computer program that allows astronauts to phone home. My current hobbies when I am not being lazy are either training for long distance races (like marathons) or trying new recipes to cook.