Bill Mustain

Hello.  I'm Bill Mustain and I am an graduating Chemical Engineering student here at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Though, not an unusually exciting person, I am busy most of the time.  I have managed to take 16-18 credit hours every semester while working up to 3 jobs at the same time.  My current, and only noteworthy, place of employment has been for Dunlee, a division of Philips Medical Systems.  I have worked there for nearly two years now.  My official position is 'Design Engineering Intern'. I actually think that I have an interesting job. My three main projects right now are the implementation of a CCD camera to detect and measure the focal spot size of x-ray tubes, a thermal mock-up of an x-ray tube to examine both the thermal stability of the future product and the effectiveness of our patent-pending heat-sinking device, and the thermodynamic evaluation of x-ray tube window materials.  So, basically, I design x-ray tubes.

Though I do look forward to moving on with my life and finding my place in the real world and making some decent money, I will not be doing that any time soon. I have decided to get my PhD in Chemical Engineering and will begin both my studies and my research in cuel cell techology next semester.  Fuel cells have been an area of great interest of mine for some time now.  So, I'm very excited about moving going to grad school next year.

Now, I'd like to break from the boring, typical bio format and tell you all some other useless information about me:

Home: Berkeley, IL
Birthdate: September 3, 1980
Favorite Band: Smashing Pumpkins
Favorite Food: Perogie (sp?)
Favorite Car: Audi TT
Favorite Fruit: Orange
Favorite Cartoon: Fraggle Rock
Quote: "If I knew where I was going, I would already
be there."  

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