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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;">Eduardo Rojas-Flores</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-12c2abc0-5cd2-00eb-f04d-79f41e7c60c7"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University Innovation Fellow, NCIIA</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)#000000; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eduardo Rojas-Flores joined the UIF family during his third year as a Mechanical Engineering student from the University of California, Merced. &nbsp;Eduardo </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">founded AIAA at UC Merced an organization with intentions to provide guidance and support for students pursuing an Aeronautical/Astronautical career. AIAA at UC Merced focuses on hands on experience within California’s Central Valley allowing members to build their resumes and enter the Aerospace/Aeronautical field after college. The organization quickly grew in resources and support from the University and Professional companies. It held the student region conference post Eduardo's departure from the University, however his efforts were recognized by the student organization and now they continue to uphold the founding misssions. The organization now has a working relationship with Lockheed Martin and an annual buget of $30,000 with over $150,000 dollars of funding since its founding.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0#000000;">After establishing the orginazation and becoming a fellow, 0, 0)Eduardo then became a Nasa Solar system Ambassador Volunteer for NASA-JPL.&nbsp;</span>[https://solarsystem1.jpl.nasa.gov/ssa/biography.cfm?US_ID=1340 <span style="color:#000000;">https://solarsystem1.jpl.nasa.gov/ssa/biography.cfm?US_ID=1340</span>]<span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His vision for his campus purpose is to foster become a competitive pool of students whose goal is to integrate California’s Central Valley’s economic, environmental and social needs into their own ambitions, role model for immigrant students to start to engage as a future innovator in solving real world problemsaeronautics, a humanitarian a</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">nd policy maker. &nbsp;By using Through the tools &nbsp;provided by the University Innovation Fellows program, he hopes to aspire &nbsp;constant innovation has presented over 10 talks and breed the entrepreneurial spirit held various events for UC Merced’s student bodystudents and parents of all ages.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">His vision for his campus is to foster a competitive pool of students whose goal is to integrate California’s Central Valley’s economic, environmental and social needs into their own ambitions, for students to start to engage in solving real world problems. &nbsp;By using the tools &nbsp;provided by the University Innovation Fellows program, he hopes to aspire &nbsp;constant innovation and breed the entrepreneurial spirit for UC Merced’s student body.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Eduardo Rojas-Flores now works in the Self Driving Car Industry as a Test Engineer and is thriving in due part to all the teachings of becoming a University Innovation Fellow.</span></span></span>