Greg Scott
Hello, most people would start these biographies with where they were born and about their hometown. I am however, somewhat of a military brat, with my father being enlisted in the air force all my life so I don’t really have a hometown, but rather a list of places I’ve been. As such, I was born in Great Falls, Montana, and then moved about every three years to (in order); Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, - San Antonio, TX - Minot, ND – Sierra Vista, AZ. My father retired in AZ and I finished my high school degree at Buena High School, Sierra Vista, AZ. Now I reside in flagstaff where I am finishing up my Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at NAU.
I am having a great time here at NAU working on my engineering degree. It never ceases to amaze me how many fields of mechanical engineering exist alone, on top of the amount of jobs available to mechanical engineers in the world. Coming in to college I had no idea that there were so many applications of mechanical engineering; from the medical world to the HVAC industry to humanitarian third-world efforts. This last summer I worked for W.L. Gore & Associates as an engineering Intern, and I absolutely loved it. I learned a plethora of information about real-world workings of an engineering company, as well as the medical world. Because of these experiences I believe that I want to pursue a masters is some form of Biomechanical engineering, Nano-scale engineering, or Materials Science.
This project stuck out to me a lot simply due to the X-Prize foundation’s name, which I respect and know very well. This projects goal became a lot more appealing to me once I read up on some of the death toll statistics due to indoor pollution in India. It is shocking the amount of problems these developing countries still have and I believe that a few simple changes can help. I believe that developing a cleaner, more air-quality safe stove would be a great challenge to me. I personally love anything that has to do with material science, and am fairly interested in the thermal and fluid fields (although I declare myself as a mechanics/materials focused ME). I am currently enrolled in heat transfer and having a very good time so far, it is surprisingly renewing my interests in the thermal side of mechanical engineering, piquing my interest in this project.