February 23, 2004,
Vol. 74, No. 6S
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HAVE HART:
ME junior Woody Hartman says his ultimate dream is to one day own
and manage an amusement park like Disney World. |
ME student
is featured in trade magazine as a “student you’d love to
hire”
He’s no William
Hung, but ME junior William “Woody” Hartman is no stranger
to the spotlight. As a Berkeley freshman he appeared on the college
edition of Hollywood Squares.
Now as a junior
he’s garnered attention not for his television-ready smile and
knowledge of trivia, but for being a professional “catch.”
Hartman was recently
featured in the pages of Design News in a section entitled Engineering
Students You’d Love to Hire.
True to his reputation,
Hartman was, in fact, hired this spring for a manufacturing engineering
co-op position with FormFactor in Livermore. There, he is designing
and performing experiments with very expensive equipment to determine
if using a high-powered, automated microscope will improve the company’s
manufacturing processes.
So why is Hartman
so hirable?
“I’ve
done well academically but beyond that I hope I have the social and
the leadership savvy to be effective as more than an engineer, but also
as a manager, coordinator and liaison,” he says.
Hartman spent last
summer taking business classes at Haas to become a “well-rounded
engineer.”
While his pragmatic,
engineering tendencies steer him toward getting his M.B.A. and landing
a management position in the technology industry, he also harbors a
wilder, more adventurous goal.
“My ultimate
dream is to design and manage my own theme park. It was my motivation
for becoming an engineer. I want to be like Walt Disney or at least
work as an “imagineer” at Disney Corp.,” says Hartman.
While jobs at Disney
may be hard to get, and amusement parks don’t go on the market
every day, Hartman can’t help but think that one day he can make
it all happen. But even if his aspirations never become reality, Hartman
says he won’t stop thinking about it.
“Darn it,
a kid can dream!” he says.
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