 My dad is sort of my image of an ideal father. He was able to come into an area where he knew no one and to a community where he had no allies and create a home for his family. The way he's been able to do that at least in part is thanks to Purdue University. This is a National Science Foundation Future of Manufacturing project that started almost two years ago. It involves Purdue University as the lead and partners at Harvard, Tuskegee University and Ivy Tech Community College. The main goal of the project is to bring artificial intelligence and the latest advances in data analytics to small and medium manufacturers. For this summer we identified some new projects and they became the basis of Natantab's summer internship. The subset of project that I'm focusing on is the utilization of current sensors or IOT devices, which is just Internet of Things. Essentially the goal of this is to optimize and observe the program that any system is running while not having to physically be there monitoring the system and the operations itself. I was offered about six different research opportunities, but being able to have a one-to-one connection with my professor, my mentors, graduate students here and just individuals that I see who have excelled in their field and I simply just want to follow their path. I feel like this was the best choice to spend my summer. At the end of the day, what I want to provide for myself, for my family and my community is the trust and care that if they have problems, I can solve them. In my eyes, that's just about the ideal role of someone with my experience and perspective. In my eyes, engineering is that solution.