Join me in equipping the next generation of engineers with the resources they need to succeed.

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I’m Sunny, a fourth-year Electrical and Computer Engineering major with a specialization in control systems and their applicability to EV development. My engineering education at Ohio State provided me with the foundation to seek out industry experience leading me to the heart of Silicon Valley in the Bay. Here I found my true passion within my field of study: Autonomous Vehicles and their widespread proliferation.

I am specifically raising funds for the College of Engineering's Community, Access, Retention, and Empowerment Office (CARE) office because their work directly enables success for engineers in a multitude of different ways. They directly engage in outreach with K-16 communities connecting them with faculty, students and alumni. This pillar is critical because for many young future engineers, a career in engineering can seem unattainable. By nature of the profession, a young child will have few interactions with an engineer versus the many interactions they may have with, let’s say, their medical provider. This outreach by CARE directly seeks to educate, engage and equip the next generation of engineers ensuring this next generation of engineers is diverse and has the equitable distribution of resources they need to succeed.

Circling back to Autonomous Vehicles and using them as a representative example, innovative technologies are only truly impactful to the everyday person if they are able to attain it. In order to build these technologies with equity in mind, we need to have a diverse cohort of engineers willing to strive not only to innovate in terms of feature addition, but also cost reduction building technology that can impact every one of us. CARE seeks to enable success for engineers before they even realize it’s a possibility, then retain that talent once at Ohio State, and lastly ensure success post-graduation – strengthening and perpetuating this positive cycle of community enablement.