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My name is Pedro Curiel and I am a Systems
Engineer for [inaudible] and Robotics Division.

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I was born in Mexico in the City of Juarez.

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Got my first engineering degree there; electrical
engineering.

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I was fortunate that the semester that I graduated,
NASA was doing a massive hiring of a lot of

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engineers.

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This is my first PCV Award that I [inaudible];
I'm kind of excited about it.

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I even got to put my name on it; it has the
name and the logo.

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So we already had this little microcontroller,
but we needed to expand the capabilities of

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this and that's why I created this one.

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So I just basically made it here and this
captures all the temperature information and

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then logs it and then communicates it and
then another controller then has to control

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the algorithm that controls the temperature
of the robot.

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Everyone has their doubts; "Oh I can't do
it.

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I don't have the skills.

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I don't have the education."

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There are a lot of voices talking.

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You need to just do it and try it; see what
happens.

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Have an open attitude; be able to get out
of your comfort zone.

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Be comfortable; being uncomfortable...if that
makes any sense.