Tobin Boshaw

Tobin has many personal achievements in his life, including playing competitive soccer for eleven years and enjoying most board sports, such as skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding, but he considers being accepted to UC San Diego, where he is a Mechanical Engineering major at Earl Warren College, one of his biggest academic achievements. He was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a child and told that his learning disability would inhibit him from being successful as a STEM student.  “I kept on persevering through the challenges, and today I am officially an officer for a prestigious Engineering Honors Society, Tau Beta Pi.”

Tobin continues to be successful at UC San Diego.  He and a couple of his classmates built a fully functioning robot that could move around, pick up objects, and place them at different levels.  Their efforts scored them the second most points and an award for the most creative design.  He also successfully created a design for a model rocket, which involved designing an avionics system to record altitude, building it, and launching it to an altitude over 3,000 feet, with a velocity of over 1,000 ft/second.

Tobin hopes to one day specialize in BioTech, where he would be able to help others by using his degree.  “My life goal is that through this specialization, I would be able to help engineer new and improved medical devices for a world that continues to develop more diseases and conditions than ever before.”  He plans on attaining a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, hopefully through UC San Diego while taking advantage of the University’s 4-1 program in which he could immerse himself in the graduate program beginning senior year and attain a Master’s degree in his fifth year.