Original Inquiry & Academic Enrichment

Academic Enrichment:

While i was in high school I had the ability to take dual enrollment classes with Columbus State Community College and I am glad that I took those higher level classes. While some of the computer science classes didn’t translate into classes for my major they made me better understand computers and how logic works. I also had the ability to take advanced classes in Microsoft Excel and Access which is a great help with Engineering 1181 at the moment. These classes helped me decide that CSE was the correct path to take in college. I am hoping that now that I am at Ohio State I can maintain my high level of GPA I had in high school. It is a lot of fun to see the look of surprise when you tell someone your GPA is 4.3. There are more obstacles now that I am taking college classes. The obvious ones are that they are harder and require me to be more responsible with my time and studying for the class. However there are also a lot of things to help balance out the harder course load. There are tutor rooms for math and physics, which I am currently taking. As part of survey class I have to attend two first year success series events which there are ones based on time management and stress. I have already found that dealing with time and stress are my major issues because as a commuter I have can’t just get up and go to class I have to leave my house with plenty of time to deal with traffic. Also being a commuter I have job on the weekends which limits my study time to mostly during the week. Luckily there are plenty of quite areas around that I can study at such as the libraries or even buildings like Smith Lab have a lot of study room to work between classes.

Original Inquiry:

In high school I was required to take an internship class and work on a capstone project. I had the ability to work with a software company who is producing a video game. Through the internship I learned things from researching other games to coming up with a possible website design. However the most interesting part was getting to complete the capstone project. I had to design and code items that would be used in the game, the main thing was a tower because it is a tower defense game similar to Bloons Tower Defense. I spent a large number of hours researching different methods and functions in the Unity system and how well they worked. My completed result was for the company and can’t be discussed because of an NDA but for the internship class I had to complete a presentation about all the research I had done. Getting to see all the work that got put into the semester just to make something that seemed relatively small. I really hope that in my coming years I will get to participate in research, specifically regarding software the way I did for my internship when it was very important to let the company know what parts of a game are really good and what just doesn’t work. Some obstacles for that kind of research is how broad it is, in my internship it was specifically looking at tower defense games and seeing what people liked. Most companies have teams that go through feedback and reviews of their programs to see what is liked. I think in a few years my research ideas may change however into more of a hardware stand point and how to make certain things more functional, such as using Arduinos or Raspberry Pis to do a more specific task.

Year in Review

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Career

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Artifacts

Hyperloop Train :

Presentation Here

The Hyperloop is an idea that has been around or a long time and is based on creating a near vacuum in a tube so that a train can move extremely fast due to low air resistance. The Hyperloop project is proposed to decrease travel time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to just 30 minutes. It is projected to travel at speeds of 760 mph and use a new type of motor called linear induction motors. It will take a lot of power on initial acceleration but since there is very low air resistance there wont need to be any motors on continuously and will only need to have another motor approximately every 70 miles.

The reason I studied this is because America has fallen behind most other countries in terms of public transportation. Most Asian countries have trains such as the bullet train or other railway systems that can connect people to other parts of the country. In America most people drive or fly but the proposed Hyperloop is faster than any other transportation method and is a very new technology that is being researched and tested actively. Currently the company SpaceX is holding competitions for teams of engineers to test out new pod designs in order to see which is the most effective and is even building a test track that is on the large scale so everyone can see if the idea will work. It will take a long time to get this train running for passengers however, due to its unknown potential risks even when a final version is built it will be used only for cargo at first.

About Me


Matthew Royster

Hi! I’m Matthew Royster a freshman computer science and engineering pre-major student. I graduated from Reynoldsburg High School eSTEM Academy in 2016. High School is when I took my first programming course and decided what my major would be in college. I also enjoy building and designing things and have experience with VEX robotics. In my free time some of my favorite things to do are play games and build with Legos or Meccano Erector sets. I am a first year Green Engineering Scholar and learning the Java programming language. I can’t wait to spend the next four years learning things that will actually be able to further my future career of a software engineer.