About Me
Who I Am
Hi, my name is Manas Srinivas Gowda and I am an undergraduate Computer Science student at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. Outside of academics I love coding in Python, playing tennis, and binge watching movies on Netflix.
I am a proud member of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program at ASU. GCSP is a nationally recognized program that prepares engineering students to solve the grand challenges of the 21st century by developing five core competencies including talent, multidisciplinary thinking, entrepreneurship, multicultural awareness, and social consciousness. The students pursue these competencies through a combination of coursework, research, service learning, and real world experiences connected to a chosen Grand Challenges theme.
My chosen theme is Joy of Living. I selected this theme because I wanted to use technology to make people's lives easier, more comfortable, and more meaningful. Joy of Living is a broad and powerful theme since it connects to almost every area of human experience, from reducing financial stress for college students to speeding up college admission decisions for anxious high school applicants to building job search platforms that give young graduates more peace of mind during one of the most stressful transitions of their lives.
This portfolio documents my journey through the five GCSP competencies. It includes my interdisciplinary coursework through FSE 150 and SOC 334, my service learning experience with the ASU Transcripts EPICS project, my entrepreneurial venture PeerRent developed in ENT 360, my two semester capstone project with Qualaces Inc on Jobque.ai, and my multicultural experiences through COM 263 and STS 332. Together these experiences have shaped me into an engineer who thinks beyond the code and builds with people in mind.
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