David Hadley (2024) now works at Garmin Aviation Technologies. Along with a Mechanical Engineering degree, he also has his pilot’s license. David fondly recounts his senior design capstone project—the culmination of a 4-year-long project with the Undergraduate Research Institute—for which he and his team many technical designed and tested a reusable suborbital vehicle. He discusses applying his technical writing skills from college to his current work testing and certifying avionics, which requires writing plenty of manuals, procedures, reports, flight test plans, and other documentation that needs to be easy to read, free of typos, and usually in pilot-friendly language. David emphasizes the importance of concise technical writing in aviation safety. He also advises current students to savor the free time they have during college and to seek out a job you can be passionate about; take time during interviews to find a company with a workplace culture that fits you.