I am interested in taking up IEOR 190G as it is strongly related to my field of expertise. As mentioned before, I am an electrical engineer with a keen interest in communications. I am also interested in hardware design, and I have previously designed several electronic circuits. However, these were on an individual scale mainly for learning and fun. In future, I might possibly design circuits with innovative ideas that are nonexistent in the market. It is thus important to be able to protect my idea from copying. With all the hoo-ha now with big consumer electronic corporations suing one another, it further highlights the importance of patents and protection of intellectual property.

With IEOR 190G, I hope to learn more about how patents work, how I can go about applying for them and how to distinguish what I am doing is new and not copying.With the vast number of engineers in the world, there is bound to be some chances that I will be doing something similar to someone else. I am not sure if drawing inspiration from some concepts might even be deemed copying. Thus, I believe the course will be an invaluable experience for me.

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Hi! I am Jun Yi, an exchange student from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I major in Electrical Engineering and this is my second and final semester in Berkeley. I was born and raised in Singapore, and I have studied electrical engineering since I was 17, and I am now 25 years old!

I first studied electrical engineering in polytechnic for 3 years, specialising in communications, before I entered the army for my military service for 2 years. Thereafter I entered university and I am currently in my third year. Anyway, some might consider me to be pretty old and still be an undergraduate since most people my age in other countries are already working or in graduate school. However, I believe it is not the age when we start working that matters but what we contribute to the society, thus I hope to achieve much more despite starting work late!

I wish to work in the industry as an electrical engineer, perhaps a hardware or communication engineer, for the next one to two decade, and thereafter hopefully become a lecturer in polytechnic. I enjoy teaching and that was also where I first learnt about engineering. I hope that I will be able to inspire more students to be interested in engineering. As you may not know, engineering is not as popular in Singapore as it is here at Berkeley, so I definitely hope that more youths will take it up back home in future!

Anyway, some of my hobbies include solving puzzles, such as sudoku and jigsaw puzzles. I also enjoy watching videos, such as serial dramas and movies. I also like to hike, especially here in US where the weather is cooling and less humid as Singapore (it is a menace to hike in Singapore as we get really sweaty!) and I have hiked the fire trail at Berkeley twice, and also went to Yosemite and Grand Canyon and tried out some trails!