Joseph Towle Email & Phone Number

With my professional background as an experienced mission commander and pilot, I have obtained skills unique for an undergraduate. The Air Force flight training was intense, and the information required was referred to as “drinking from a firehose." I learned to keep pace and handle 12-hour days for months at a time. This training helped me with advanced classes and retaining significant amounts of information. This experience also enabled me to manage multiple tasks at the same time, while not letting one slip by unnoticed. The only way to be a safe pilot is to know every system in your aircraft to a finely detailed level. Having this deep knowledge was required to respond correctly to the unforeseen emergencies that occur in flight. We learned how to be calm and collected during the most stressful situations. Understanding that if I made one incorrect decision, I could lose this 120-million-dollar aircraft and my future as a pilot. We adapted to normalize that stress and think logically to bring the aircraft down safely. The responsibility required to become a mission commander was also more than expected. I learned how to plan hundreds of missions that spanned multiple continents, oceans and crossed a myriad of countries. Each mission took extensive time, coordination, and the closest version of perfection possible. If one piece of crucial information was left out, the entire mission could be cancelled, or even cause an international conflict. The attention to detail will transfer to the precision required for Graduate School and National Laboratory Scientific Research.

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  University Of Nevada, Reno

  Physics