Marcus Engineering Intern Receives National Recognition

Robbie is always passionate, eager to learn, and meticulous. He spends an extraordinary amount of his free time teaching, mentoring, and helping more junior engineers and those without engineering backgrounds with projects. He is the president of the IEEE club at the University of Arizona, where he spends time organizing workshops to teach soldering, 3D printing, and basic circuit design. Robbie also serves on the board of the hacker/maker space Xerocraft, which focuses on growing a community and helping to teach hands-on building, making, and engineering skills.

During his engineering senior design project, his team developed an underwater robotic fish, fully equipped with ballast controls and gig-e camera. The Fish Team won overall best design in 2013 out of approximately 70 competing engineering projects in the program. He is also a ham radio operator. The radio system incorporated into his car includes a Wi-Fi hot spot, four channels of video recording inside and outside, and a packet radio-based tracking system that allows location-tracking of his vehicle via the Web.