Hello everyone,

My name is Sun Garcia and I am a senior mechanical engineering student graduating this semester! My role switched from drone technical lead to more of a mechatronic support for our new Persistence of vision project.

I was born in San Diego California and lived there for 11 years. My family then moved to Los Angeles and I lived there for 10 years before moving up to San Jose in 2016 to attend SJSU. My hobbies include dancing Latin music, singing, playing the piano, and practicing soccer. My favorite class is automatic control systems because it incorporates material from various classes that I can use to control the output of a system.

I decided to join EPICS because I have always wanted my work to positively impact the community. It motivates me to know that even as students we can make a positive impact on the lives of so many people.

My future plans are to attend the Aerospace Graduate program at SJSU to learn more about Control Systems. While I pursue my master’s I also want to start a small startup company to get my foot in the door of the entrepreneur world. After finishing the graduate program, I would like to work in industry for roughly 10 or 15 years. Afterwards, I would like to go back to community college to teach as a professor while at the same time encouraging kids K-12 to pursue a degree in STEM.

Hello, my name is Christopher Kennedy and I am a graduating mechanical engineering student. I have been acting as the project manager for the Light Tower team.

I grew up in Tracy, CA since birth and attended Delta College in Stockton, CA before transferring to SJSU in Fall 2017. While at Delta College, I was on the water polo and swimming team and have always been a huge sports fanatic.

I originally joined EPICS as a junior as I was allowed to use the program to satisfy a graduation requirement, and enjoyed the program and came back for my senior project. I was greatly attracted to the aspect of working with an organization outside the school to further developing soft skills as well as access to the makerspace giving us a workshop to use.

Although I will be taking a few months break from engineering, I plan to start the job hunt later this year. I would like to pursue power generation, specifically with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. I have looked into graduate school, yet would like to get more experience under my belt and enjoy a hiatus from school in the meantime.