Name: Judah Epstein
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Major: Electrical Engineering
Class of 2005
Judah Epstein is making a racket around SMU - both on and off the court.
The budding entrepreneur not only plays a vital leadership role among
engineering students at SMU, but also plays both singles and doubles
on SMU's varsity tennis team, which took second place in the 2003 WAC
Conference Championship.
Judah says he became interested in technology during his junior year
of high school, when he learned programming to make web pages. In his
senior year of high school, he started building robots and joined the
Dallas Personal Robotics Group.
Judah has pursued both these interests - and more - at
SMU. He has put his web design skills to use for the School of Engineering and
for SMU's STARS (Student Technology Assistance in Residence) program,
which creates websites, course pages and tools, scripts, and multimedia
applications for SMU faculty. He has continued his interest in robotics
by working on the programming for the Pneumatic Haptic Interface (PHI)
System being developed in the school's Robotics Lab.
He's also gotten involved in numerous other extracurricular activities,
including Student Engineers Joint Council (he's organized the council's
annual awards banquet the past two years), Hillel-Jewish Students Association,
SMU racquetball club, softball and a variety of shooting sports.
Judah says he plans to combine his interests in sports and technology
and start his own company that would create new technological advances
for sports and outdoors activities. He's already started one such company
called Shotgun Solutions, Inc. to sell a specialized ammunition that
will allow users to easily shoot sub-gauge shotgun shells in a larger
gauge shotgun. If he becomes a successful entrepreneur, Judah says he
wants to give some of his profits to various religious and environmental
charities he has been involved with.
