Alex Boardman
I became interested in engineering because I enjoy problem solving. I am a “maker” at heart and designing solutions to real life problems, including a geothermal heat exchanger, is one of my strengths. I also wanted to go to college to study a field that tests my weaker subject areas like mathematics. This way I could transform my weaknesses into strengths. Oddly enough, my greatest chemical engineering interests lie within the field of transport phenomena, a highly mathematical subject. I hope to study transport phenomena in my future graduate study and explore mathematics in more detail. Soon, I will be able to hone another skill that as an undergraduate, I have only skimmed the surface of: research. It is one thing to be able to make something, but making sure results are reproducible and writing scientific reports on your findings are important skills to perfect.
