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| Matthew Wnuk at UC San Diego, where's he's working towards a master's marking inward electrical engineering. |
Matthew Wnuk joined the Navy inward 2004 in addition to was trained equally a sonar technician at the Anti-Submarine Warfare base of operations inward Point Loma. Nine years of active duty service, an undergraduate degree, several internships in addition to a project later, in addition to he’s nonetheless using the skills he learned inward that position, this fourth dimension equally an electrical applied scientific discipline master’s pupil at UC San Diego.
Being a sonar tech has 2 components—electronics in addition to intelligence—and Wnuk had the adventure to serve inward both capacities during his fourth dimension inward the Navy, which took him to Japan, the Pacific Islands in addition to merely nigh everywhere inward between.
“For the electronics part, y'all problem shoot in addition to create in addition to hold electronic suites,” Wnuk said. “If a capacitor goes bad y'all own got to create an electronic survey of the board to figure out what went wrong. And the other side of it is intelligence—either collecting or analyzing intelligence—which is what I did my final 3 years, doing the analysis on all the word sent inward from the fleet.”
Being a sonar technician piqued his involvement inward electronics, in addition to thus when he transitioned out of active duty, he decided to pursue a marking inward electrical applied scientific discipline at San Diego State University. He worked difficult in addition to excelled inward the program, fifty-fifty serving equally president of SDSU’s chapter of the IEEE honor social club his senior year.
While earning his undergraduate degree, Wnuk lay his armed forces in addition to academic sense to piece of employment through an internship amongst Northrop Grumman, conducting electromagnetic question amongst applications for UAVs. He also interned for NASA, testing circuitry for an optical receiver used on a LiDAR organisation for the Lunar Lander. After graduation he decided to pursue a career amongst the Navy’s Space in addition to Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific.
“At SSC Pacific, I’m doing electronic blueprint of hardware for unmanned aerial vehicles in addition to aerostats, which are giant blimps,” he said. “I’m also doing a piffling chip of software for controlling communications for UAVs.”
After merely 1 twelvemonth at SSC Pacific, Wnuk was laid upwardly to own got on roughly other challenge, in addition to began his master’s marking inward electrical applied scientific discipline at UC San Diego piece he continues to work. He’s focusing on machine learning, which is an expanse he thinks volition own got many applications inward the defence strength sector.
“It’s been an incredible challenge,” he said. “Because the machine learning percentage is to a greater extent than of a estimator scientific discipline background, which is something I didn’t have, it took nigh a quarter for me to acquire my feet on the ground. But I mean value I’m making skilful progress.”