SINA ALLEN - Beedie Luminaries

When Sina Allen received the Beedie Luminaries Scholarship in 2020, his main concern was getting his feet on the ground for his first year of studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). What Sina didn’t know is that in just five years time, his life would be on very much the right path and that he would have achieved things that first-year him didn’t even know existed.

Now, as an alumnus of the Mechantronics Engineering program at UBC, Sina has completed an internship in Palo Alto, California where he worked as an Engineering Intern at Tesla, Inc.

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Working in the United States as an engineer was not always a crystal clear goal until recently, having gone through two Canadian internship experiences. The motivations for working in states shifted from the desire to work at a select cool and attractive companies, such as Tesla, to the desire to not be left stuck in Canada’s limited and small sized industry.

“My motivation to work in the U.S really began to take shape after completing two engineering internships in BC during which I learned how relatively small and limited the opportunities are for mechanical engineering graduates in Canada compared to the U.S.”