Columbia University

Engineering primarily appeals to me because of my nuclear engineering summer internship with Applied Research Associates. Initially, my team and I conducted static tests, placing a radioactive isotope in the center of the room and then reading the output to look for certain outcomes based on our government contract. Then we did dynamic testing where professionals took out the detectors in different scenarios to see how they would perform in real-life operations. At the end of each detector run, I handed out surveys and interacted with the professionals before categorizing their survey…