systems engineer

"I would like to become either a navigation and control engineer for satellites or a systems engineer for typical space systems," says Farboud.

Chotev, who worked as a systems engineer in IT for more than a decade, said ICE officials asked him whether he was a citizen and inquired about his skills.

“As bad as things may seem, you can’t give up,” the retired systems engineer said.

This means the upper atmosphere ends up contracting “like a balloon being placed in liquid helium,” Matthew Brown, a systems engineer at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., explained to Salon.

Since then, Gutierrez, a satellite systems engineer, has made it his mission to catalog every stairway in the Greater Los Angeles area, including those near his home in Long Beach.