Hi, I’m Joseph Saavedra.
I’m a recent graduate of Saint Martins University in Lacey, WA, and planning on moving to the Los Angeles area to start my career as a full-fledged member of the Mechanical Engineering community.
My path to becoming an engineer has been a long one full of personal growth. I originally graduated High School in 2009 and started my path toward becoming an engineer. About 2013 however due to the difficulty of the degree I started to question if this career path was for me. I spent the next three years working and developing a sense of who I was and what I wanted to do. However, it wasn’t until a trip to Disneyland in 2016 that I started to encounter the possibility of being an engineer. Looking at how the engineers at Disney called “Imagineers” were able to design and incorporate the additional element of story into their work, I was able to gather inspiration for what Engineering could be by realizing that engineering in itself can be an art and can also bring meaning, purpose, and ease of living into people’s lives and that I could do that as well. Inspired by the Imagineers' work at Disney, I decided to turn my focus back on my degree to finish becoming a fully-fledged Engineer. Working part-time and going to school part-time (I was even able to be accepted into the Disney College Program in 2018) I finally finished my BSME degree in May of 2021 and as of August 2024, I am now a Licensed Engineer in Training with the state of California. My personal goals are to keep learning, growing, and developing my skills as an engineer while collaborating with others in designing the solutions for tomorrow’s problems