Success Stories
Every semester, some students rate how much they've learned from the courses taught so I decided to gather up their comments :
On a side note, I had an interview this past Thursday for a software development position. One of the questions they asked me was regarding polymorphism and your advice/teaching payed off exponentially. They called Friday and offered me the position stating "I blew the other interviewers out the water". Thank you for your help and I really appreciate your tutelage; preparing us for interviews and pushing us to become better engineers.
Thanks, Chris - 05/12/2013
Hi Preet,How are you? I just want to share a good news with you that I got a job in Nvidia as a Embedded Engineer. You know what Preet 60-70% of questions in interview was from CMPE-146 class. All those bit shifting, volatile keyword, stack, task and whatever you taught in class. Thank you Preet for making our future bright. Thank you
Himanshu - 04/10/2013
Hello Preet,
I wanted to thank you for all your help and your suggestion over summer relating to my internship. The tremendous amount of help and knowledge you gave me during my Remote Controlled MP3 player project set me up for Image Signal Processing (touch response/performance). My manager at Intel was so interested in the Remote Controlled MP3 player that he asked for the link to your Wiki page so he could get a better understanding of everything that went into it. Essentially, CmpE 146 and your help turned my summer internship at Intel into a job!! My internship ended August 17th but they kept me on and I'm now working there part-time due to school. Hope you don't mind that I gave your Wiki link to my manager.
Thanks again, Tom
Tom - 08/23/2012
Dr. Ozemek and Preet,
I wanted to personally thank both of you for giving me the opportunity to learn and be inspired from your experiences. The lessons I learned and the confidence I gained in CmpE 146 have continued to reward me in a variety of courses and areas of my life. I don't know when it happened but at some point after taking 146 my work transformed from "something I have to do for school" to "something I have to do for me."
In my last semester as an undergraduate student at SJSU, while taking some of the most challenging courses in the CmpE program, I earned my first 4.0 GPA. I had to let you know that I attribute a large part of my success to you. I will be forever grateful of your commitment to push me out of my comfort zone; and now I feel like I have developed a level of confidence where I can push myself to new heights.
To be clear, I did not graduate from SJSU. I will be returning in the fall to start working on my Masters Degree in Computer Engineering as part of the accelerated program.Thanks for Everything,
Akash - 06/09/2011
