48+ hours straight on the FSAE car.

"When I was a student, I vividly remember staying up late to study for exams in Heat & Mass Transfer and working 48+ hours straight on the FSAE car to prepare it for the student competition in Detroit in 1999. Late nights we had to work through the night to sand the body of the composite body and then later in the year we had to work through the night to build the engines for the race car.

"The professor I remember most is Dr. Don Radford because he taught me how to see the whole picture of a project. I was leader over Engine Development as a senior for the FSAE project in 98-99 and Dr. Radford was able to help me see the whole car as a project and be able to lead my group and help the team fit the car together within the time and budget we had available. This project development helped me later after graduation as an engineer working for automotive suppliers and then starting with Nissan North America. I now work day to day on vehicle production and future model development which I learned the insight to manage from the FSAE program."