Carey Scholarship Winner 2022

This year’s Carey Scholar is Harrison Jin, a fourth year Computational Engineering student at UT’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics.

The Graham F. Carey Computational Science Scholarship was established to honor the important work of Professor Graham F. Carey in the computational sciences. The $2,500 scholarship is awarded annually and gives preference to participants in the undergraduate CSE Certificate Program and to UT Austin students in the Moncrief Summer Internship Program.

Harrison tells us what drew him to the Oden Institute and computational science and engineering.
 

“We get exposed to a lot of different fields as computational engineers and I really enjoy that,” he said.

Jin applied for the Carey Scholarship because he was very interested in computational science and engineering but also because the scholarship would help cover the tuition fees for the final year of his undergraduate degree. “And I’m so grateful I was selected for it.”

Jin is very interested in the autonomous robotics side of CSE - specifically, control theory. Last semester he took feedback control with Oden Institute core faculty,  Ufuk Topcu. This semester, he is taking Todd Humphreys’ aerial robotics class. “I'm also a member of Texas Aerial Robotics, a student organization here on campus that builds and programs fully autonomous drones, he added.”

Despite his packed schedule at UT Austin, Jin knows there's a lot to learn that couldn't possibly fit into his last year of undergraduate school. “I’d like to take a few years off from academia and go into industry before coming back for graduate school,” he said. “This summer, I’m working as an intern for Aurora, a self-driving car company. One reason I’m so interested in Aurora and self-driving cars is that there are still so many interesting, unsolved problems to work on in this space. I’m looking forward to my last year of undergraduate school. I hope to learn a lot and make the most of every opportunity.”