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At age 17, she was considering industrial engineering when her father invited her for a stroll.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe took me to the mountain near my town for a long walk, and I had nowhere to escape,\u201d she recalled with a smile. \u201cHe talked about how the world was changing and how computing would transform everything. He said that soon everything would rely on computers: banking systems, appliances, cars. He told me computer engineering would be at the center of that transformation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He convinced her to choose computer engineering, and the rest is history. She traces her passion for hardware engineering to a third-semester class at the University of Tehran, where she first discovered digital circuits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farahmandi is now living her dream as a celebrated faculty member and researcher in UF\u2019s Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering (ECE). She is now the Walden C. 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