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Ben Bunes lives in Aloha, Oregon, just west of Portland. He enjoys a plethora of wholesome Pacific Northwest activities, such as hiking, skiing, rooting for the Mariners, Beavers, and Huskies while booing the Oakland A's, Ducks, and Cougars, drinking coffee (especially from Coffee Rush), eating prime rib at the Ring Side, trips to Powell's City of Books, driving through the hills, consuming Walla Wall Sweet Onion rings and Tillamook milk shakes from Burgerville, and exploiting free parking hidden all over downtown Portland. He has a cat named Zipper, who Ben is convinced is the devil incarnate. While away from home, he misses the attitude of the people, the mountains (some of which are four times as tall as the average Adirondack), the excellent coffee, and having somebody pump his gas for him.
In addition to Eta Kappa Nu, Ben is involved in many other campus activities. Ben is the only electrical engineer in the New York Mu Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He is a proud brother (and Philanthropy Chair) of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. The Office of Admissions has him give tours to prospective students. Ben is also the Electrical Engineering Student Representative to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Committee. He also represents Wold House on the Inter-Minerva Council. In addition to these leadship roles, Ben is also the 2nd for the Union College Curling Team.
Ben's academic interests include semiconductors, digital signal processing, signal conversion, and nanotechnology. He has worked for IBM's Advanced Technologies Division developing back end of the line etch processes and Homeland and National Security's Next Generation Wireless Testbed at the Idaho National Laboratory investigating new methods of troubleshooting RF equipment.
Utilizing Union College's dual degree program, Ben has been tasked with two senior projects. For electrical engineering, he is using image processing techniques on nanoscale images to discover attributes that the human eye cannot see. For mathematics, he is modeling the electric field in a reactive ion etch chamber, used in microelectronics production.
After graduation, Ben intends to enroll in graduate school. He will spend one additional year to earn his MBA from Union, after which he will work on a PhD at a school to be determined. He hopes that this education will lead him to his career goal: managing research teams.
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