My name is Erich Stoekl, and as of Spring 2010 I am a sophomore in Computer Engineering at Penn State, University Park.  I am from State College, PA and my dad works at Penn State as well (Allan Stoekl, professor of French and Comparative Literature).  I am also an employee of cisco systems and will be working at their San Jose branch this summer.  Starting October 2010 I will be going to Tohoku University (東北大学), in Sendai Japan, and I will be there until August 2011.  I am going through the Department of Engineering exchange program with Tohoku University, and will be studying computer and electrical engineering.  In addition to this, I have the personal goal of learning the language as much as I can, and seeing as much and learning as much about the country as I can.  I will also try to take as many pictures of the areas I see along the way as possible.

Location: State College, PA