Sean McIntyre graduated from Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center in 2012 with an Outstanding Academic Achievement award. He then started his college experience at Paradise Valley Community College under the Presidents’ Scholarship with the intention of transferring to the Chemical Engineering program at ASU. It was at that time that I had the honor of meeting and mentoring Sean.

Sean was in two of my introductory engineering courses and University Physics 1 and 2. During that time he was an exceptional student and stood out from the rest of his class. His honors project centered around the production of hydroelectric power which involved a report, presentation, and fabrication of a working model.

Once done with Paradise Valley Community College, Sean transferred over to Arizona State University. While attending, he was also awarded the Salt River Project Scholars Fund and participated in the Mentoring students through Critical Transition Points (MCTP) program funded by the National Science Foundation. PVCC hired him as a math, chemistry, and physics tutor in January 2014. He held this position until the end of the Summer 2016 semester. His full-time ASU enrollment began in August 2015 at which point he began doing research in Dr. Bin Mu’s laboratory studying nanostructured porous materials. He made the Dean’s List both semesters of the 2015-2016 school year.
 
His college experience has resulted in a fundamental understanding of chemistry, physics, mathematics, programming, chemical engineering, and material science. His goal is to apply his knowledge to solve real world engineering problems, especially related to minimizing the environmental impact of modern processing techniques.  He is now part of the accelerated 4+1 chemical engineering program and is working on masters credits while completing his senior year. He intends to complete his master’s degree in Fall 2018.