Name: Scott Loh

Team: Mechanical

How long you’ve been in Engineering: I’ve been in LAAE since the summer of my freshman year, for about two and a half years.

Leadership Position Description (what you do as the team leader): Brett (my co-team leader) and I decide what the people in our team need to work on and when they need to be done in order to accomplish our team’s projects.  Along the way, we teach them the skills they need to do their work, including welding, machining, working with hand tools, safety and a lot of bits of experience we’ve picked up over time.

What got you interested in Engineering in the first place: I’ve always liked math, science, and technology in general, and LAAE is a really good place for people with these interests to work.  It’s an amazing opportunity to work with technology and to do so with so much creative flexibility.

Favorite thing about Engineering: I love every aspect of Engineering.  I like to spend time thinking up the best solution to an engineering problem.  I also find making things with my hands incredibly satisfying.  In general, I enjoy the freedom of being able to solve just about any problem or to make just about anything I can think up.

Most memorable moment in Engineering: I’ve had good moments in LAAE: listening to the radio, working with fun people, cooking, and watching Neil repeatedly fail to chuck a hot dog on the roof.  I’ve had some bad moments: a bad burn from welding, some painful cuts and burning a battery pack and almost burning a hydrogen fuel cell in a single day.

Projects Worked On and what grade you were in: I’ve worked on: machine milling a Mechanical Team practice piece (10^th); refurbishing the NHRA Jr. Electric Dragster (10^th); making parts for Solar Shadow III (10^th); CAD-designing a full-size solar vehicle chassis and constructing parts of it (11^th-12^th); working on the mechanical, electrical and hydrogen fueling systems of the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle Infusion (11^th-12^th); refurbishing Solar Shadow III to run as the DARPA “mule” (12^th); minor work on the dynamometer (10^th), refurbishing Solar Shadow II (11^th) and solar boat Leviathan (11^th).

Future Plans: I plan on studying Mechanical Engineering, and possibly Materials Engineering and any other kind of engineering I can get in a college.  I don’t know how things are going to work out, but I would like to work at a small, cutting-edge engineering company for a few years before starting out on my own and tackling whatever projects I find fun.  I also hope to find time to continue my hobby of playing the violin.