The DAEDALUS Project
Discovering All Engineering Disciplines and Learning Under Students
Formerly known as Xplore Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Seminar Leaders
Edgar Hoover| ebh4rs | 2017
Favorite Part of Engineering:
Learning about and understanding how cars and many other machines/mechanisms work
Other Involvements at UVa:
German Society, Outdoors Club
Things You like to do when You're not being an Engineer:
playing soccer/volleyball/most other sports, mountain biking, enjoying the
outdoors, following Bundesliga action, listening to EDM, watching/reading Game of Thrones, driving
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?
If I could be any fictional character, I would choose to be Tywin Lannister. The amount of respect that he receives from every other character that he encounters is extremely impressive and his strategic genius is something to be admired.
What advice would you give to your first-year self?
Go to more UVA athletic events apart from football and basketball games. They are a lot more fun than you think they’ll be.
Stephen Long| swl4ah | 2016
Favorite Part of Engineering:
Figuring out a problem as a group
Other Involvements at UVa:
FIJI, Trustees
Things You like to do when You're not being an Engineer:
Soccer, big film buff
If you could be any fictional character, who would you be and why?
Han Solo, because he's a pretty bad ass dude.
What advice would you give to your first-year self?
GO TO CLASS!