Interview With Oscar Morales

a) I interviewed Oscar Morales-Ponce for this paper. I chooses him because he has the same engineering major that I am interested in pursuing which is computer science. He is also passionate about what he does and has interesting projects that he worked on and that interested me greatly and inspire me to continue my studies as a computer science major.
b) Dr. Oscar Morales Ponce started his education by getting his bachelor of science in applied mathematics and computers in the UNAM, a very prestigious university in Mexico. After her graduated, he started working in a programming job at a software company. He worked for five years there and he like it but he realized he wanted to get his masters in computer science. He obtained his master at the same university in Mexico. After working for ages years in a software company he decided he liked doing research so got his PhD in computer science at Carlton University in Canada. In order to become a professor he did a post-doctorate at Carlton University and at Switzerland for two years. In both post doctorate positions he worked in theories on mobile robots and also how to control robots by themselves by programming them to …show more content…
Morales-Ponce’s jobs interesting but the one I was greatly in awe was the research he is doing currently at CSULB. At the moment he is researching on drones and how they can be programmed so they can fly without human control. He is so passionate about his current job that he plans on opening a laboratory on Mobile robots.
d) After interviewing him, I realized my major can be used in many technological areas and that in the future my major will be in demand. As a computer science major, my goal is to end up working at a technological company such as Google as a software engineer and perhaps start my own software engineering company. I realized that the engineering profession requires both lots of research and hands on work but it is something that I believe that I will enjoy