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About Me

I am a student attending Florida Tech. I work on campus, am a student-athlete, and in multiple clubs, i.e. Robotics @ Florida Tech, AIChE... I have done much research into my fields of interest and have taken the necessary classes to put me on track for a 5 years masters at Florida Tech, with a Masters in Chemical Engineering, with a specialization in Biomedical Engineering. I am currently a second year student and by the time I am done with my summer semester this year I will be classified as a senior at my school having a total of 87 credits within two years. I have worked on my own personal ideas for many different worldly ideas, gladly willing to share with individuals interested in creating a greater world.

Location:
United States, Macon, GA
Current organization:
Florida Institute of Technology
Current role:
Student
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Prosthetics
I am:
Athlete, Brainstormer, Engineer, Idea generator, Inventor, Scientist, Single, Student
Associations:
AICHE, ACS
Languages:
English
Universities:
Florida Institute of Technology
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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Prosthetics, Bioengineering, Cybernetics, Nerve Research, Synthetic Organ's Research, Exo- and Endo-skeleton Research

An idea worth spreading

I would like to spread a message unrelated to my main focus, my message or challenge is for the world to create an autonomous island, man made and self sufficient. An idea not impossible and greatly thought up, the engineering exists, the processes are already in place, just no one decides to tackle the idea.

Talk to me about

Prosthetics, human enhancement, artificial or synthetic nerve and organ research.

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    A comment on Conversation: The Japanese Fallout:Is Nuclear Power Dead?

    Mar 20 2011: if anything I believe that we should take this natural disaster as an eye opener for how we should improve our nuclear power, to change and progress! I think the japanese society as a whole shows us what real motivation and strength is, they protect their own, create and continually working on their problems till the most critical point while still providing a booming economy for their people. I believe that all over the world scientists and engineers should be looking for solutions and ways to take this disaster around and create an innovative solution, a positive out of a negative, if it comes to complete meltdown.
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    A comment on Conversation: Are we entering into a new historical period?

    Mar 20 2011: I think we are entering into a new historical period yes, but one of so much unnatural turmoil and change that I can not decide if it will become positive or negative. I believe that we are waiting for the next huge thing to determine wether what this era is to be named, maybe it will be a new energy source, maybe it will be the greater production of synthesized foods, or maybe we move to an era of cities built in giant sky towers, and the idea of community is brought back, or maybe we move into an era where people despise their govt. even more due to lack of real support or solid answers.... the questions of what this era really is are limitless.

  • A comment on Conversation: Meat production without livestock. A way to feed the world ?

    Mar 20 2011: the unfortunate downside I see to this, is that we will stop the corse of forced reproduction we put our livestock through and therefor we will create a smaller population that way. I think the idea of lab-meat is great but what happens when we say. "hey we don't have to save cows for meat, we can now increase leather production, dairy production, and all of a sudden crop production goes up and everything seems great", but then we notice farmland loses a large natural fertilizer and our vegetable products start to go into almost a negative swoop. It all just depends on how human greed reacts into this equation
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    A comment on Conversation: What kind of job would you do if you were not worried about the income?

    Mar 20 2011: I would continue on the path of being an inventor, but I would add in public activist. I just want people to be more aware, just in general our society, more in america than most places, we are covering everything up with mass media garbage and it annoys me, so I would like to shed light onto what is good, what we can make better and hopefully bring people together to create a better more stable world we live in.

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