Two weeks ago freshman Daniel Polimeni was named OWL Radio’s new engineer. And he has big plans for the radio station.

“I’m working on several projects,” Polimeni says. “I’m hoping that these projects will enhance OWL Radio’s ability to deliver services to people that are students at FAU or employees. Hopefully we can get on FM sometime soon, that would be a pretty big benefit to anyone at FAU or around FAU,” says Polimeni.

Two months ago, former engineer Todd Walsh was promoted from engineer to station manager at OWL Radio. Up until two weeks ago, they were egineerless. The engineer makes sure that the equipment is in tiptop shape and upgrades the programs and equipment. According to Polimeni, the engineer’s job encompasses a few things.

“Being OWL Radio’s engineer entitles a few things,” Polimeni says. “Basically, managing equipment, preventative managing, stopping things from breaking before they break. Looking into solutions to upgrade equipment. Let’s say we need new equipment, I would research into what is the best equipment, how much it costs and whether it’s viable to use.”

That’s an important job at the FAU radio station seeing how much equipment they have and how often it is used. Any event held by a club is likely to have music; with music comes equipment. Next time you are at an event it’s more than likely that the equipment is being brought to you by OWL Radio.

After two weeks of being engineer, Polimeni has accomplished several tasks. “I have worked on a new Internet web stream that will deliver our signal to people on the Internet at a higher quality than it was before,” he says. “I added a system that can play digital audio files, bringing OWL Radio up to par with commercial radio stations.”

Polimeni has been at OWL Radio as a DJ since March and has seen and learned a lot of things.

“There have been problems, nothing that can’t be worked out, nothing an email or a request can’t fix for the most part. It’s a really good place to work,” says Polimeni.

But Polimeni would like to see a lot of things happen at the radio station.

“I would like to see OWL Radio be taken seriously,” he says. “We really want to change our ways of operation. We want to make it so we can reach the largest amount of students and employees of FAU possible and hopefully, hopefully we will be allowed the means to do that, because I really want to see the radio station succeed.”