Sonia Balcer:  

acclaimed. I enjoyed my studies there very much. Workplace Thoughout college, in addition to being a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at UCLA, I was fortunate to have various interesting jobs building interesting experiments and machinery (thermoacoustic, particle physics, dynamic phased shifters, high voltage, etc.) at Los Alamos Laboratory, LaJet Energy Company, and others. Throughout high school and a couple of years after, I worked on SUNFIRE, a large thermo-mechanical electric power station consisting of a parabolic concentrator, boilers, and generator, and of which construction provided experience in arc-welding, machining, and optics. At present, I work on electrical components on the Space Shuttle Main Engine, which runs on hydrogen and oxygen. In this capacity, I analyze data from flights, assist with designs and overhauls, and investigate anomalies. Military N/A