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As a member of the United State Army, I have endured both the mental and physical challenges to protect and serve our beloved nation. While performing my duties as a combat engineer, I continuously use several engineering skills to construct fighting positions, place and detonate explosives, and finally detect mines. Despite this job being tedious, my background knowledge in chemical engineering has tremendously assisted me, especially while serving in hostile environments. Since beginning my studies in engineering, I have developed a sense of hard work and tolerance for pressure. As a Ph.D. student, my research expertise focuses on synthesizing and developing novel polymers to be used in oil-water separation, nanoelectronic templates, thin films for solar cells.

Graduate research assistant at Tulane university
studying Chemical engineering at New Mexico State University Main Campus
New Orleans, Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016

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October 26, 2016

My name is Baraka Lwoya. I was born in Kenya, and migrated to the United States when I was 15 years. Since my childhood, I always had a great interest in mathematics, and science. The love for these…

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