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Robert commenced his double degree in 2002 as a Dean’s Scholar and recipient of a prestigious Sir John Monash scholarship for excellence, valued at over $12000 per annum. He is specialising in electrical and computer systems engineering and maths and physics though the Faculty of Science. While Robert was in year 12 he was taken on a tour of the engineering facilities at Monash and was impressed. “I chose Monash because it had the reputation in engineering that I was looking for”, Robert says.
Robert enjoys the practical nature of his course. “Any time you get something to successfully run after designing and putting it together provides an amazing sense of achievement. The satisfaction of solving a problem in your own, or in the team’s own, creative way is what engineering really means to me”, he says. Not surprisingly his favourite subject was an electrical and computer systems third year design unit, which provides students with the chance to create and build a solution to a design brief. Working in a team, Robert created a ‘mouse’ robot, designed to run a maze with walled sections, and edged sections in the minimum time possible and with minimum human assistance. “In doing this, I gained extensive practical experience, and got to apply the theoretical knowledge that I had learned over the past few years”.
In his spare time, Robert likes to play hockey with the Monash University Hockey Club. “Monash Uni HC has a great atmosphere, and quite a few engineering students take part”. He also does some private tutoring of senior secondary students, and has recently started tutoring maths to first year university students through the Faculty of Science.
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“The satisfaction of solving a problem in your own creative way is what engineering really means to me.”
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