{"id":6,"date":"2023-10-06T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.pprd.odu.edu\/spring2017-met330-template\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-10-09T02:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T02:01:42","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a CAD Technician pursuing my Mechanical Engineering degree from Old Dominion University.&nbsp; I am based out of Salem, Va and work in Blacksburg, Va.&nbsp; My goal in attending ODU is to open up more opportunities in my career by furthering my knowledge base and capabilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By taking Fluid Mechanics, I am gaining knowledge that I can use for future projects.&nbsp; Through the semester long group project, I am learning to work as a part of a team and getting a preview of what it is like to work towards a customer request.&nbsp; Working as project manager for the project is allowing me to work on my organizational skills that will prove useful when I am assigned projects to lead in the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some topics in Fluid mechanics that I find will be useful in my career involve the design of coolant a piping system throughout a factory setting.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n-945x945.jpg 945w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34599\/2023\/10\/386201976_10231993790168016_2458022295907908329_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a CAD Technician pursuing my Mechanical Engineering degree from Old Dominion University.&nbsp; I am based out of Salem, Va and work in Blacksburg, Va.&nbsp; My goal in attending ODU is to open up more opportunities in my career&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/about-me\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27778,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/smithcportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}