Oregon State HKN would like to introduce their 2016-2017 officers (pictured above):

 

President: Zachary Stark

Vice President: Jacob Wood

Treasurer: Brendan OnnLim Yong

Web Correspondent: Mackenzie Johanesen

Corresponding Secretary: Markus Woltjer
 

We asked all of the new officers the following questions, and the answers may or may not shock you.

 

President: Zachary Stark

1. Hometown

Beaverton, Oregon

2. Focus Area of ECE/Additional Minors

Focus in embedded systems. CS minor. 

3. Prior work/research experience

Worked at Nike Inc, Rockwell Collins, Daimler Trucks North America.

4. Favorite electrical engineer

Tesla.

5. Favorite class

ECE473: Microprocessor System Design

6. Favorite programming language

Embedded C.

7. Favorite number system

Unary.

8. What you want to do after college

Get a job as an engineer somewhere.

9. What you'd be doing if you weren't doing electrical engineering 

Be a math professor.

10. Favorite proof

Proof that on any closed loop there exists four points that make up a rectangle.

 

Vice President: Jacob Wood

1. Hometown

Corvallis, Oregon

2. Focus Area of ECE/Additional Minors

Integrated Circuits, Embedded Design

3. Prior work/research experience

Basketball Coach, Undergraduate Researcher (AMS group)

4. Favorite electrical engineer

None.

5. Favorite class

ECE473: Microprocessor System Design

6. Favorite programming language

C.

7. Favorite number system

Hexadecimal.

8. What you want to do after college

Work in industry, potentially R&D

9. What you'd be doing if you weren't doing electrical engineering 

If I could do anything I would be traveling.

10. Favorite proof

None.

 

 

Treasurer: Brendan OnnLim Yong

1. Hometown

Penang, Malaysia

2. Focus Area of ECE/Additional Minors

Integrated Circuits, RF Communications

3. Prior work/research experience

CEOAS-Robotic Oceanographic Surface Sampler

4. Favorite electrical engineer

Nikola Tesla

5. Favorite class

ECE 323: Electronics II

6. Favorite programming language

C

7. Favorite number system

Binary

8. What you want to do after college

Graduate school

9. What you'd be doing if you weren't doing electrical engineering 

Most probably Computer Science.

10. Favorite proof

Not really a proof but, Euler's Identity.

 

 

Web Correspondent: Mackenzie Johanesen

1. Hometown

Eugene, Oregon

2. Focus Area of ECE/Additional Minors

Power Systems and some Computer Engineering, with a Computer Science Minor

3. Prior work/research experience

FEI Company for MECOP Internship

4. Favorite electrical engineer

Nikola Tesla

5. Favorite class

ECE473: Microprocessor System Design

6. Favorite programming language

C

7. Favorite number system

Hexadecimal

8. What you want to do after college

Become a famous musician, or more likely go to graduate school.

9. What you'd be doing if you weren't doing electrical engineering

I’d like to study English literature.

10. Favorite proof

Proof that the sum of all positive integers is equal to -1/12.

 

 

Corresponding Secretary: Markus Woltjer

1. Hometown

Wilsonville, Oregon

2. Focus Area of ECE/Additional Minors

Most likely finishing a major in CS, maybe statistics, maybe ECE. Focus area is data science and machine learning.

3. Prior work/research experience

Research in Wood Science (experimental physics actually), going to be researching in data science and machine learning moving forward.

4. Favorite electrical engineer

Alan Turing whether or not he qualifies, because he qualifies in my heart.

5. Favorite class

CS420 Graph Theory

6. Favorite programming language

Python

7. Favorite number system

Base 1, 0, and 10

8. What you want to do after college

There's a cool futurism and internet of things internship at Autodesk in Portland. More likely grad school at UBC in Vancouver.

9. What you'd be doing if you weren't doing electrical engineering

Marine Biology and bioethics are very close to my heart.

10. Favorite proof

The proof of infinite primes.