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\"Alumnus<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alumnus Adham Baioumy \u201919 remembers the exact moment he became interested in mechanical engineering a decade ago. He was in middle school, and his father announced to him and his three brothers that he had ordered a robot. \u201cMy first thought was just, \u2018Wow,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cMy second was whether it could help me with my homework.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when the \u201crobot\u201d arrived the following week, he and his brothers were disappointed. They had pictured a humanoid figure with nearly human intelligence capable of carrying out human-like tasks. What arrived was a Lego kit. \u201cIt sat untouched for a week or two,\u201d Baioumy recalled, \u201cbut eventually my curiosity got the best of me, and I went to check it out.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He used the kit to make a remote-control race car, and, to his surprise, that experience provided more value than a robot assisting him with his homework ever could. \u201cThat was when my passion for mechanical engineering first started,\u201d he said. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t believe how much fun I had doing it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baioumy is now a Mechanical Engineering<\/a> graduate from the University of Washington Bothell and still finds his work to be just as fun as he did all those years ago. In fact, he is currently working on what he said is one of his most rewarding projects yet: the new STEM building now in construction on campus. \u201cAs a STEM<\/a> graduate, it feels pretty incredible to now be investing the skills I gained in my classes back into the school,\u201d he said. \u201cIt feels very symbolic.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting high ambitions <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Baioumy has been doing impressive work since he was a UW Bothell student. His sophomore year, he co-founded TrickFire Robotics<\/a>, a student-led robotics team that provides hands-on education through work on large-scale projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2016, the TrickFire Robotics team has traveled annually to the Kennedy Space Center to represent UW Bothell at the NASA Robotics Mining Competition, a competition in which 50 college teams design and build a rover \u2014 a planetary surface exploration device \u2014 capable of mining on the surface of the moon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baioumy\u2019s passion for mechanical engineering during his undergraduate years impacted people here on earth, too. Most notably the life of Reese Armstrong, a 13-year-old girl who was born with a misshapen left hand. Reese\u2019s father, Brian Armstrong, asked the University for assistance, and when his call for help was shared with Baioumy\u2019s class, he and then fellow student Michael Meier \u201919 jumped at the opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They worked together to manufacture a prosthetic hand for Armstrong<\/a>, which allowed her to lift a glass, hold her dog and even go up a climbing wall. \u201cShe uses that hand to this day,\u201d Baioumy said. \u201cI know because I am still in touch with her dad. Being able to work on something that makes such a positive, significant impact on a person\u2019s life, that\u2019s what I love most about the field.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working for others <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now a graduate working at Johnson Controls, a company that makes self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology for \u201csmart\u201d buildings, Baioumy continues to help people who are either injured or disabled. One of his recent projects was creating a smart system for an intensive care burn unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a person\u2019s skin is severely burned, he explained, the body loses its ability to regulate its temperature, causing it to fluctuate heavily between extreme highs and lows. \u201cMy job was to create a system that can measure a patient\u2019s decrease or increase in temperature and then respond accordingly,\u201d Baioumy said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the temperature drops, the room immediately goes into rapid heating mode and heats the room to 100 degrees in five to 10 minutes. Conversely, when a person\u2019s body temperature increases, the room turns on an exhaust system that removes hot air as quickly as possible to cool down the patient.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming full circle <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Baioumy\u2019s current project is the new STEM building<\/a> on campus where he is in charge of creating and installing smart systems in the engineering and chemistry labs. These systems are extremely important as they are responsible for expelling fumes that can be dangerous to breathe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"STEM
The new STEM building under construction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to do a great job on this project and really demonstrate all that I gained as a graduate of the School of STEM,\u201d he said. \u201cI know a lot of students will be inspired in that building and will take what they learn in those classrooms to benefit their communities, just as I have tried to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo play a part in that, well, it feels pretty incredible.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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