My name is Eric Riedl. I am a senior at Iowa State University studying electrical engineering with a focus on power systems analysis.
I started my time at Iowa State University not entirely sure what I wanted to pursue with my degree, at least not beyond the idea that I wanted to do something within the field of engineering. As I progressed through my classes I discovered that the work I enjoyed the most was in my Introduction to Power Systems course, EE 303. This led me to pursue further knowledge of this field and eventually focus my studies for my Bachelor's degree on Power Systems Analysis.
Our senior design project has been quite a challenge, discovering that we needed to learn an entire new coding language in order to complete our assigned task has been daunting to say the least. However I believe that the challenge this project has presented us with has made us better engineers as a whole.