Submission Number: 439
Submission ID: 1572
Submission UUID: 51363859-db16-4271-94c3-355b61ee4dc6

Created: Sun, 03/09/2025 - 15:31
Completed: Sun, 03/09/2025 - 15:39
Changed: Wed, 05/07/2025 - 18:51

Remote IP address: 2601:283:4f01:c9b0:e957:9b0b:951:f38e
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English

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Flagged: Yes
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Andrei
Nicoara
He/Him/His
Highlands Ranch
colorado
United States
80126
Chemical Engineering
English(5), Romanian(First Language, 5), French(2)
While I’ve never had the opportunity to study conditions in other countries specifically, my family's trips visiting relatives in Romania have helped me understand how conditions vary across the world. In the future, I would love the opportunity to travel to Central and South America to see how conservation efforts are addressing deforestation and climate change in the continents' unique climates.
Diverse global experiences and perspectives are critical to the success of any engineering project, and are therefore critical to engineering as a whole. On a smaller scale, when I participated in the BOLT engineering design competition at CU Denver, the theme was accessibility. My group was tasked with prototyping a voice-activated door to assist patients with limited mobility, but the knowledge my teammates brought from observing the needs of their grandparents was critical to deciding our design. It helped us balance the needs of caretakers in the home, the privacy of the user, and the limitations of an Arduino. This experience helped me realize how firsthand experience of a problem must underlay any solution, or else engineers risk creating something technically ‘functional’ but entirely impractical. This makes the experiences and perspectives key to continued improvement in the field of engineering by helping develop solutions that can effectively help individuals in need.
The Global Engineering RAP is an excellent opportunity to build an understanding of engineering at the global scale and meet a community interested in critical problems. By majoring in Chemical Engineering, I expect a tough curriculum heavy in math and science, but that will leave me with a poor understanding of the real-world problems I can expect to work on after graduation. This program can help me fill in those blanks and gain an understanding of real-world problems—and their relationship to Chemical Engineering—long before I get my degree. At the same time, I hope that I can meaningfully contribute to the community of the Global Engineering RAP, and especially the modified first year project, since I already have experience in engineering, woodworking, and software from years of robotics clubs.