Well, you asked for it.....

I guess i could be classified as a young professional, but you wouldn't believe it if you saw me. Nor do i believe it.

I'm an Electrical Engineer by education.  Put in my time, 6 years to be exact, at Cornell University in lovely Ithaca, NY.  Great in the summers, not so great in the winters, and basically in the middle of nowhere.  What better place to spend the early half of your twenties?

While there, i managed to finish my Bachelors of Science and Masters of Engineering, both in EE.  Concentrated in control systems for the MEng.

It was during the last few years there that my appetite for cars and speed really developed.  I basically got recruited by some friends to join Cornell's Formula SAE team.  My mission, if i chose to except it, was to design, build, program, and calibrate an ECU to run the racecar's powerplant.  So, i had about 9 months to make this "thing" to run a 600cc, turbocharged, fuel injected ( methanol BTW ), Yamaha FZR600.  9 months later we had a 1st place finishing car, and i was hooked.  FAST, FAST, FAST!!

I stuck around for another year, and devoted myself to the FSAE team once again.  It was my graduate work year, and I needed a graduate design project.  So, my goal for the year was to design, build, program, etc, etc, a traction control system for the racecar.  So i did.  Boy was that more than i expected.  Between that and welding most of the car's space frame that year, i didn't sleep much. LOL!

With graduation rapidly approaching, the beginning of '99 started the interview process.  I talked to quite a few different companies trying to figure out what i wanted to do.  I'm still not sure if i'm doing what i want to do, but i'm employed now.  I took a job in powertrain for one of the big 3 and moved to Michigan in July '99.  And that's were i am now.  The land of fast cars! :-)

I frequent the UBB's at the bottom of the page.  y2khawk is the handle i go by, come check 'em out.