Stephen K.

I’m Stephen Khanou, a Mechanical Engineer with a B.S. from UC Irvine (cum laude) and an M.S. from Cal Poly Pomona, where I earned a 3.95 GPA. Those achievements mean a lot because they weren’t always easy. In high school and early college, I struggled with STEM subjects until I learned to approach them differently. Instead of memorizing formulas, I focused on understanding the why behind every concept — the intuition, the mechanisms, and the meaning beneath the equations. Once I shifted my minds…