About me:

I hail from a small, Pennsylvania-Dutch dominated region of the world called Lancaster County. I'm not Pennsylvania-Dutch but actually come from Asian ancestry, hence the surname Ong.

I like writing almost as much as I enjoy doing math, and when it comes to any combination of the two, I go weak in the knees. I hope to use that passion to write children's books that democratize higher-level engineering and mathematics education, hopefully so that young girls and boys will receive unique exposure, and thus a lasting inspiration, to change the world.

I initially wanted to become an engineer because I was completely dissatisfied with the lack of lightsabers in our world. After watching the Star Wars prequel trilogies, I decided that the extent of technology developed by the brightest inventors and engineers lagged the extent of imagination of sci-fi authors, and I wanted to close the gap.

So far, no updates on progress with lightsaber technology.

Some of my personal projects at the moment include:

• Baby's First Bessel, a children’s book about the use of Bessel functions on the playground
• Jack the Jet Engine, a children’s book about the mechanisms of turbofan machinery
• Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) applications for fish shoaling and pedestrian behavior

Some other things I've worked on:

• The design of a Scaled Mock Nuclear fUsion Reactor Facility (SMURF) for my capstone design project
• Blood flow analysis in the Iliac Bifurcation using ANSYS Fluent
• Literature review on the applications of seismic metamaterial cloaking using phononic crystals