CHALLENGING COMPUTATIONS
Blessing Nwugo. Photos by Brody Salazar.
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t UCR’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, interns Teddy Calderon and Blessing Nwogu have gone from working with microprocessors to designing cases to be built by a 3D printer. The case, the current project the two interns are working on, is for a device that measures the wavelength of light. When it is finished, it will be used to determine the health of avocado trees by reading the light they emit. Because of the nature of the project, all of their time working is spent on a computer, something that proves helpful to them, as they both have majors involving computers. Calderon is a math and computer science major, and Nwugo is a
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@Brody_Salazar computer information systems major. Calderon and Nwogu describe the internship as a challenge, but one that came without any bad experiences. Whenever the two have difficulty with something, others in the department would help with their problem. Calderon describes the people they have worked with as being “amazing people” from a professional standpoint. The interns are not given answers when they have questions. Instead they have to solve the problem themselves, but they are shown how they can solve the problem. According to Nwugo, the department members “take time to explain on the white board.” They lead them to the answer, but let them solve it on their own.
