MEDFORD DARNELL
Computer Engineer
About Me
I am a motivated engineer who has a primary interest/focus on electrical engineering and computer science and am currently persuing a bachelors in computer engineering. My passion for engineering and tech started at age 10 with software, and then electronics by age 11. However, money was tight at the time and I had to stop electronics. At university I came back to electronics and now love working on both hardware and software at the same time - thus my decision in pursuing computer engineering was the right move.
Throughout most of my life, I found myself constantly having to be actively working on a project, whether it be game development in Unity3D (primary focus in teens), software engineering, or electrical engineering. Around 20 years old I started to become very interested in aerospace, based off an interest in space since a young age and an overall fascination with our universe. Because of this, I developed a new hobby: satellite engineering. This interest, after almost a year of research, resulted in the founding of Mizzou Satellite Research Group. I think satellites are very interesting because they are un-manned spacecraft and allow us to collect scientific data without sending people off into space; which in itself makes things easier and eliminates risk/casualty. Based off the fact that they are un-manned, there is a potentially big market for artificial intelligence in space and that is very exciting.
By the way, hot-take, Iron Man 1 was the best Iron Man movie and the other ones went downhill from there... Watching the mark 2 flight test scene gets me very pumped up! I may or may not watch it very frequently.....