Jenna Barger

Jenna R. Barger, EIT is a senior electrical engineering student at WSU Tri-Cities. Jenna completed her associate’s degree in science at Columbia Basin College as a Running Start student in June 2023, and she will be graduating with her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics in May 2026. She works at Cadwell Industries—an electrical engineering firm that designs, sells, and fixes special-case medical diagnostic equipment—as a service department intern. Soldering, problem-solving, and documentation is a major part of her job on a daily basis. Jenna also has extensive research, designing, planning, and technical writing abilities due to her involvement in both the Mid-Columbia Science Fair (MCSF) and Washington State Science and Engineering Fair (WSSEF) in 2019-2021 for her physics and engineering projects: “Frequencies Surrounding a Black Hole”. Her leadership, planning, and critical thinking skills were prominent in both her Final Ethics Group Project and her Senior Design (Capstone) Project part of her bachelor's degree. Her future plans include attending Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in August 2026 to research electromagnetics and photonics.

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