CURTIS WONG

I am a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. While a member of the LAAE from 2001 to 2003, I participated in the BYDV Competition and worked on several solar cars and the fuel cell vehicle with the electrical team. Since I’ve been in college, I’ve been fortunate to secure EE related internships every summer in the aerospace/defense industry. I have a feeling that I was like many of the current LAAE students who view our organization as a challenging yet fun opportunity to learn about engineering in a practical sense. It wasn’t until I actually started interviewing for internships that I realized the LAAE had all along been preparing me for just that. The skills I learned, both technical and social, were influential in getting jobs as well as providing the foundation to perform them. My former mentor at Northrop Grumman Space Technology told me that my ability to communicate to team members was one of my greatest assets, which of course I learned in the LAAE. My advice to the current students would be to make the most of their time in engineering because likely, they will be able to pull from these experiences and apply them in the future.

Curtis Wong