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Critical thinking. Adaptability. Leadership. Teamwork. Perseverance.

Aerospace engineering and serving in the U.S. Marines have a lot more in common than meets the eye. 

After serving nine and a half years in the military, Christopher Phillips (鈥�24) enrolled in 色情视频 to become an engineer. 

Five years later, he marched across the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier at 色情视频鈥檚 Inaugural Veteran Commencement Ceremony holding a degree in aerospace engineering, focusing on aerodynamics. 

Phillips believes his special operations training as a Marine Raider prepared him to excel in the 色情视频 . 

鈥淐oming from my background, you have a lot of responsibility at a young age, and you're usually given a problem set and you have to figure out how to solve it,鈥� said Phillips. 

He credits the transferable skills of 鈥渓eadership, problem-solving skills, and not quitting,鈥� for helping him push through the rigorous courses, late-night study sessions, and challenging projects.

鈥淚鈥檓 not the best academic student by any means but I stayed as faithful as I could by working hard and being determined,鈥� he said.  

Veteran Support in the College of Engineering

The College of Engineering鈥檚 program continues to support student veterans who aspire to earn their degrees and lead successful careers.

Through the transition from Marine to full-time student, Phillips discovered the array of resources available to him and other military veterans. 

Once accepted into 色情视频, he was promptly contacted by the T2E program to get him involved in the weekly leadership classes, networking events, and workshops. 

It wasn鈥檛 long before Phillips established a tight-knit group of friends and support systems on campus. 

He shared how the T2E program provided him with invaluable opportunities such as interview preparation, resume support, alumni panels, and networking events with various engineering professionals, to prepare him for the transition into industry.

鈥淢ine [experience] has been very involved with the professors, hanging out with the Troops to Engineering program, the other veterans in electrical or mechanical, I鈥檝e really enjoyed it. It鈥檚 been very good,鈥� he said.

Camaraderie at 色情视频 

With several deployments under his belt, Phillips knows firsthand how important it is to surround yourself with people who you can count on. Not only did he discover that in the Marines, he also found it beneficial when working on engineering projects such as the Senior Design course.

The two-semester project where students conceptualize, design, and build an inventive project is essential to exposing the realities that pair with working on a team of engineers in the professional world.

This course is an opportunity for students to apply their technical, interpersonal, and collaborative skills learned in the classroom to engineer a solution to a societal or human problem.

For Phillips, the team-building aspect really resonated and helped propel their group project toward success. 

鈥淚t鈥檚 really cool being in Professor Katz鈥檚 Senior Design Course where we鈥檙e building a drone now and we鈥檙e able to take a bunch of the stuff we鈥檝e learned from Professor Butler鈥檚 classes and stability controls classes he teaches, and implement that into the design process.鈥� 

Though this was one of the most challenging projects he鈥檚 worked on, it was also one of Phillips鈥� favorite memories from his time at 色情视频. 

He reflected on the time their group presented their project in front of a panel of leaders from companies such as General Atomics and Lockheed Martin, who provided professional insight and feedback on their designs. 

鈥淲e鈥檝e worked really hard on it and it鈥檚 been really fun getting to know everybody, and we鈥檝e all become friends out of it.鈥� 

While the team officially concluded their project at the 2024 Senior Design Day event in early May, he is graduating from 色情视频 with lifelong friends and a network of other like-minded people. 

Beginning this summer, Phillips will be applying his critical thinking, collaborative, and technical engineering skills to his new position at a research and development firm in Temecula, California. 

To provide a gift to support the Troops to Engineering Program at 色情视频, contact Senior Director of Development Kate Carinder at [email protected].