An Inside Look on Engineering: Electrical Engineering

My name is Carolina Aguilar and I am a junior in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. When I initially arrived at Purdue and started out in the First-Year Engineering Program (FYE), I was introduced to so many amazing career opportunities. I couldn’t decide on just one, I wanted to do all of them. I first wanted to be a nuclear engineer and work with alternative energy, then I wanted to be an astronaut. It was when I took a class about electric and magnetic interactions, that I realized electrical engineering was the right fit for me. 

After making that choice and joining the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, I have had no regrets. The amount of doors my major has opened are way too many, I can work with energy, telecommunications, lasers, nanotechnology, controls, microelectronics, and circuit design. Last summer I had the opportunity to do research at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center and work on plasmonic circuits. 

One thing that is so great about Purdue engineering is all of the hands-on learning opportunities you get to have where you can apply your knowledge and positively impact your community at such a young age. After college I hope to develop new technology that will help society in both the healthcare and energy sectors. I will be forever grateful for the opportunities that being a Boilermaker has given me.