Currently my line of work is working with infotainment systems in vehicles. The system is very complex and I wonder if having side projects of mobile development will help me understanding automotive OS. For example, my company is creating an infotainment completely from scratch, and we are using Android Automotive 11. If my understanding is…

This is the last month of the course, the semester, the calendar year, and the program. I will say this class is top 3 of those courses that I will remember as really challenging me to the core. The stress of learning new concepts, re-learning old ones from a long time ago, not wanting to…

I have decided to dedicate this post to writing about my career as I enjoyed writing about that last time. Currently, I am on the fence between engineering track and management track. I am currently a technical project manager, and not sure if I enjoy management. It is very stressful and frustrating navigating to do…

This week I was able to hit a big milestone after overcoming a lot of technical hurdles, both in understanding and with platforms such as Github. For Github, I downloaded Github Desktop and also downloaded the GitLens plugin. Both tools made my life so much easier after I unsuccessfully merged something into main but ended…

The main goal of this week was for me to get user login to communicate to the back-end. As a team, we agreed that Google Login method would be a good start to this. There are a couple ways to do this, and after a lot of discussion our team came up with three different…

This was an exciting week because our team finalized and submitted our project plan. It was rough getting everything together at first, because a project at the start can seem daunting when nothing is laid out yet. But, we all got our heads together and started putting things on paper. Once we got the ball…

I had the first meeting with my team members and am relieved to report that the first meeting went well and it seemed we are all a laid back group of students that seem easy to work with. I was surprised to find another student, actually an OSU instructor had the same type of journey…

As I write this first blog post, I am appreciating this assignment of having students blog their way through their last course of this program. It’s a great place to capture not only the technical hurdles and achievements, but also the emotional aspects. I didn’t really have an outlet for that through my time here…