Engineering Exploration Week: Live Welcome and Overview

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Camille, I can't even name capitals, so you're like one step ahead of me.

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Bobby ambassadors are on, so that's fun.

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Cool, alrighty well we will go ahead and get started.

Cool, so my name is Camille and I am a student ambassador here at the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering at Colorado State University and today I am joined by Sammy and Kylie who will introduce themselves later on in this presentation and we're super super glad that you are here and you've decided to join us to kind of learn more about everything else at the College of engineering has to offer.

And we're super excited to share with you about our journey and answer any questions that you may have. So kind of talking about questions to the left of your screen. I don't really know orientation, but to the left of your screen there is going to be a little chat box where you can put any of your questions. So if you have any questions throughout the throughout the presentation or just whatever, please feel free to put those questions in the chat room there and I already see it going.

Ambassadors, Sammy Kaylee. If you would like to put kind of your introduction into that group, chat and so people kind of know who's here, please go for it. We'd love to see who's who's with us today.

Sarah Hi Sarah 4th your bio Med mechanical.

Cool, keep Boyd third year chemical and biological.

Michelle, it's going. It's going Michelle 4th year goose or Ethan Hello.

Pre Med focus. We love to see that.

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There's a chat feature there, so like I said, please feel free to put any of those questions in there an we will get those answered and will either answer them like through here or we will just like go ahead and put your name and say Hey like this is the answer your questions so please feel free. We love to answer those questions for you.

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So before we get started. I would like to read the Colorado State University land acknowledgement. This statement recognizes that Colorado State is a land grant institution and we acknowledge the long history of native peoples and nations that have lived on the land where the University now resides. This statement acknowledges the native people in nations that still maintain connection to this land, so here is the CSU landed knowledge Minton.

Colorado State University acknowledges with respect, but the land we are on today is the traditional ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Anut Nations, and peoples.

This was also the site of trade gathering and healing for numerous other native tribes.

We recognize the indigenous peoples as original stewards of this land and all the relatives within it.

As these words of acknowledgement are spoken and heard.

The ties nations have to their traditional homelands are renewed and reaffirmed.

CSU is founded as a land grant institution and we accept that our mission must encompass encompass access to education and inclusion.

And significantly that our founding came at a dire cost to native nations and peoples whose land this University was built upon.

This acknowledgement is the education and inclusion we must practice in recognizing our institutional history, responsibility and commitment.

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OK cool so.

Thank you for listening to our two hour CSU land acknowledgement.

So now we would like to kind of shift gears, an kind of just First off. Welcome everyone to engineering exploration week. We're super glad the lot of you have decided to join us, not only today, but throughout the rest of the week, and we really hope that you have been able to learn more about the different disciplines that you are interested in here within the College of engineering and learn about the different labs and facilities and kind of meet some professors. Meet some faculty members and meet some current students and throughout today. That is exactly what you will also be doing is learning.

About CSU through other current students and learning about student organizations, Co opts the whole thing. And so.

Again, my name is Camille Milo. I am a fifth year studying chemical and biological engineering and biomedical engineering. I am originally from Southern California and about five years ago I decided to trade the oceans for the mountains and so kind of that's this picture. Here is I used to love being in the ocean as a kid. I had the goggles and the whole thing, and now we're here in the mountains and it's cold.

But today I want to ask you a question, do you want to change the world?

Upon entering Colorado State University, I was asked the same exact question. Do you want to change the world?

About five years later, I have not only answered a resounding yes to this question, but I've also been presented with Ways and opportunities to figure out how I want to change the world.

Let me tell you a little bit about how my college journey has been.

Since sophomore year of high school, I knew I wanted to be part of the medical field. Specifically, I wanted to be a pharmacist at the time my interests were developing different types of medications to aid with Cancer Research.

However, after shadowing a pharmacist, she told me that my interest would best be aligned with biomedical engineering.

Which was really funny because my cousin had just started in biomedical engineering and the thing that I said was like, why did I think of that? It was so obvious.

My senior year of high school I looked into different biomedical engineering programs across the nation from literally the East of the West and really found that they were more mechanical engineering based an I really wanted that pharmaceutical approach that chemical engineering approach and CSU kinda just fell in my lap an I said This is really the place that aligns with my interests.

At Colorado State University, specifically within the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering, I have been exposed to the collaboration that engineering offers. There are my five years I have been able to gain a new depth of knowledge not only about engineering, but how engineering can be applied into different aspects of life.

In my first year I decided to live in a non Engineering Residence Hall.

I lived with people of all different majors, so business, biomedical science, psychology, human development and family studies. If there is a major that you can think of at CSU is probably living with a student who is studying that major.

And living with students with a variety of majors help help me to understand how engineering applies to different aspects of the world. For example, living with a business student or a marketing student has helped me understand how engineering product should be marketed and.

Essentially sold to other people and how I should be able to make those products fit for those people.

Or how living with science majors have really helped me to understand how the science behind the engineering that I'm doing or why I have to look at certain veins or certain arteries and all these really cool things and learn how to engineer devices specific towards those towards those things.

And so I understood that I may have all these ideas of how I want to change the world, but it truly takes a team to decide how to get those ideas out into the world.

Throughout my second year I joined every student organization possible. the American Institute of chemical and chemical engineers Biomedical Engineering Society, the Society of Asian scientists and engineers, and the International Society of pharmaceutical engineers. And those were literally just the student organizations. I joined a lot more non professional student organizations.

I thought I could have the same experience I had living in the residence halls and just talk to people about their passions and interests.

And I learned a lot about these student organizations through the chemical or through the American Institute of chemical engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society. I learned that I had more of an interest in biomaterials than I did in the oil and gas industry.

Also, through the Biomedical Engineering Society and the International Society of pharmaceutical engineering, it really reaffirmed me that I wanted to do something in the medical field. But it really brought in my interest into the biotech industry. So biomaterials, polymer science, clinical research, clinical consulting, the list literally goes on and on. And I was wanting to experience all that I was wanting to understand what all those different sectors look like.

And Lastly, joining the Society of Asian scientists and engineers really reminded me about my goals and why I wanted to be an engineer just a little bit about my family. My family immigrated from the Philippines and I go back every two years and so growing up, I was exposed to the harsh realities of a third world country and I knew that I wanted to help these people in these people in the Philippines, specifically with medical devices and getting better health care. And I just wanted to use whatever I was going to do here in the United States.

To help my family and other people that I met through the Philippines.

Going back here to the states, I quickly became overwhelmed with how many student organizations I was part of. I attended meeting after meeting event after event and all while being a full time student.

And while it looks great on a resume, I was not fully able to invest myself in my classes and invest myself in these student organizations. I always had to divide my time and figure out a whole plan of schedule so that I could go to all these things and study dual engineering degree.

And when I went to a career fair befal of my third year, one of the recruiters gave me one of the best advice I may have ever gotten college and he said, well, it's great to see you be a part of all these student organizations. An undergraduate student does not have time to fully commit to all of these student organizations, so choose one and give it your all.

So I took his advice and really chose to commit to the International Society of pharmaceutical engineering. My 4th year I became the secretary of the CSU chapter and now in my fifth year I am the president of the CSU chapter and so full circle. Really thank you. Thank you. So now my fifth year I can see how all these decisions have helped me to become a better student in your 4th or 5th year. Kind of just depending on if you're doing the dual degree or not. You will take a class called senior design and in this class you will be presented with a project in which you will be asked to improve upon.

Or fix or whatever you want to do with that project. For me, I am on the junctional tourniquet team to give you a quick, quick summary. It junctional tourniquet is a device that you put around an extremity over a wound, so an extremity could be your legs, your torso, or your arms. Simply put, this belt like strap is wrapped around an extremity to stop the bleeding, to prevent blood loss.

Super cool, not necessarily the bleeding part, but like the medical device part and so.

Our team plans to develop a Wireless Smart, Junctional Tourniquet that will provide blood pressure data to a doctor in real time, so this improves efficiency to the doctor. To be able to assess and diagnose a patient's needs even before the patient arrives. So, like literally as they're coming to the hospital like this doctor is looking at the screen and saying great, this is when the blood pressure dropped and this is when the.

New pressure is a little too high.

So cool, I get to do that an in this senior design project. Not only are we expected to develop this product, but ensure that our target users so combat soldiers and medics are able to use this product. This project combines everything I've learned in the last five years. Not only the technical aspect but the user aspect we want to make sure that this device is a low cost and portable and also very easy to use. Therefore we have to think about the materials that we're going to use if they're heavy. If they're not that heavy, if they break.

Easily or whatever it is. We also have to think about the band and ensures to ensure that it fits a small arm or a wide torso because we want this to be universal for every type of Extremity. I also need to know the veins in the arteries that are important to prevent from bleeding out. I need to understand the necessary pressure to be able to stop the bleeding, but also I need to understand that the pressure cannot cause nerve damage. The list goes on and on and there's so much that goes into your senior design project.

But it's also so incredible to see how much you've learned these past four years or five years that you can make a product that is capable of going into market.

I've said it once I've said it twice, one more time, so cool so I don't know I just I'm going to stop there because I'm going to keep going and it's just it's super fun to talk about.

But coming to Colorado State University in 2016 specifically in engineering, I knew I wanted to change the world almost five years later, I look back and realize I'm always learning, and because as much as I want to change the world, the world is changing and shaping me. Software high school, I wanted to be a pharmacist, super senior year of high school. I want to go in the medical field I am working on a senior design project that has nothing to do with Pharmaceuticals.

Is it more broad? Yeah, super cool, yeah.

But that's what colleges college is a place to fall into fail. But to get back up, dust yourself off and keep going. College is a place to learn about yourself and to truly figure out who you are. College is a place to find your greatest friends, your mentors, your coworkers, an Luckily for me. They're all the same people there. All these people that you see here with me. They are the people that you were seeing in the group chat, like those are just my best friends.

College is a place to find and understand and refine your passions. So do you want to change the world? I hope this week is shown you the many ways that you can change the world, but I also hope that this week has shown you the many ways that the world can change and shape you. It's a lot of trial and error, but what's an engineer without trial and error?

If there's two things I want you to remember from this talk, it's this where your passions on your sleeve and keep an open mind. The world's got a lot to teach you.

So just a little bit about how you know when I came to college, I really wanted to learn how to change the world. An five years later I'm I'm OK, I'm doing great, and the world is changing me, but I'm able to refine a lot of what I want to do.

So thank you for listening to my story folks, but now I do want to turn it over to doctor Marchese. So doctor marchese is the associate Dean for academic and student affairs and a professor in mechanical engineering and has a pretty similar story to how the world has taught and changed him. And every time I hear his story, I'm always encouraged to get back up, keep going, and keep learning. So without further ado, Doctor Merkezi if you would like to broadcast and Share your story with us.

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You can hear me OK, I don't really need to share my screen. Can they just see my face? Is that work alright? Awesome, well, good morning and welcome again to this event. My name is Anthony Marchese and I'm the associate Dean for academic and student affairs in the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering. First of all, I wanted to thank you and congratulate all of you for taking the time out today to join us for the culminating day over engineering exploration week.

There's a saying that goes something like. This adversity introduces a person to themselves. Well, I think we can all agree that as a nation, as families and as human beings, we've been facing adversity the likes of which this country is really rarely seen.

I can tell you something else and that is that the pandemic has reintroduced us to our CSU community and it's re introduced us to the value proposition of College of Education.

I can't begin to tell you how proud I've been of the heroic efforts of our faculty, student, and Staffs, who made enormous sacrifices for the good of the CSU community to enable us to continue to be together on campus for face to face classes.

We do this because we know that for many of our students, a college education is the most important step in realizing the American dream.

My father and mother also understood that college education for their kids was the key to what are real is realization of the American Dream. My dad, for example, was he was one of the most creative, energetic, entrepreneurial people I've ever met. But not having graduated high school, he lacked the skills and education to turn his dreams into reality.

My mom was a straight A student raised by a single parent who made one poor decision in life and that was to run away and marry my dad when they were both 16 years old for my parents. the American Dream always just seemed slightly beyond their grasp.

When I was 17, I decided I wanted to become an astronaut, which seemed personally perfectly reasonable to me at the time until a guidance counselor told me that I probably needed to go to college 1st and I probably needed to study engineering well. When my dad got wind of this, he dragged me to an event just like this, an engineering exploration event. We didn't know any better, but the University in question was a high priced East Coast Private University in the event was held in a fancy hotel and my dad and I felt kind of out of place and Underdressed.

But I could tell by the look on his face at night if I got accepted. We'd somehow figure out a way to pay for it.

A month or two later, when my parents heard the news that I was accepted to the University, I didn't even have the heart to tell them that I was not accepted into engineering. How hard, how hard could it be? I thought to transfer from undeclared into aerospace engineering. All I needed to do is get A's in calculus, chemistry and physics and I'd be good to go.

8:00 AM on on my first day of college I sat in calculus class with literally 500 other students convinced that I was the only student in class who hadn't taken calculus in high school. A 70 year old college professor welcomed us with the words look to your left and look to your right. In four years. The chances are that only one of you will still be here to graduate.

Well, within a month I was doing all I could to fulfill his prophecy because I had literally failed my first calculus, chemistry and physics exams.

Well.

How I ultimately exceeded is a story for another day, but I will tell you this, the proudest moment in my life and it's something that I'll never forget, was walking out of my final my last final exam, knowing that I passed and that it was. I was the first person in the Marchese family history. Likely going all the way back to Naples, Italy to get a college degree.

This, my friends is the American Dream. And here at CSU as a land grant institution, it's our mission to provide that access to that American dream for every person with the will and desire to succeed.

So what do I do today? Today I'm the associate Dean for academic and student affairs, and my office isn't something that we call the engineering success center at CSU. We know how much is at stake for our students and how important an engineering degree will be for them. But we also know how difficult it is to succeed. For many of our students, for many reasons. So we provide resources to help you to succeed from academic advising, tutoring, mentoring, career counseling, scholarships, student diversity organizations, and just being here for you.

When you need us so that you can take that most important step towards the American dream.

I'm also a professor in mechanical engineering and I have the great honor and privilege to supervise our CSU ram rocketry team.

And to me this team personifies what CSU Engineering is all about.

Last year, for example, out of 120 teams in the competition, we were the only team to even attempt to build and launch a liquid propellant liquid bipropellant rocket.

To paraphrase John F Kennedy, the CF says the CSU team chooses to build this rocket not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

The CSU Rocket delivered a 10 pound payload to 9700 feet, breaking the all time record for the competition for a liquid bipropellant rocket and beating the likes of Princeton and Stanford and gaining the praise of industry observers such as SpaceX, blue origin, Virgin Galactic and United Launch Alliance.

More importantly for me personally, while spending a week with the team in White Sands, New Mexico, I learned that 6 out of 10 students on that team were first generation college students just like me.

In fact, I just got an email from one of the team leaders last year. Eric Hernandez, who's now working at Lockheed Martin for some reason at 11:00 PM on a Friday night, he felt compelled to send me a YouTube video on rocket nozzle theory. True story.

You're going to hear this phrase many times today, and maybe you've heard it this week, and that's that. Rams take care of Rams. If you join us as an engineering student at CSU, you will immediately become part of our community of students, faculty and staff with one common goal. And that's your success.

You'll take an engineering class your first semester, and on the first day in that engineering class, our professors tell our students look to your left and look to your right. Now I want you to do all you can do to help ensure that all three of you are still here to graduate in four years.

That's the way we do it. Rams take care of Rams.

Thanks everybody and enjoy the rest of the day. We really would be thrilled if you join us here next fall or when you're coming to college. Reach out to us. We can answer any questions for you.

We would love to see you here, thanks.

Wow, thank you so much. Doctor Marchese. That was an amazing story. I definitely hope that I could live up to that expectation that you said now. Well hello everyone. My name is Kaylee and my pronouns are she, her and hers. I'm a fourth year student.

Ah, sorry, I'm a fourth year computer engineering student and I'm from Honolulu. HI, that's my baby picture since we all decided we're finding some baby pictures in there.

You've already heard from Camille and doctor Mark ASEAN. They're amazing stories and now I wanted to share mine too. It's the story of how I picked my major.

As a senior in high school, the hardest part of the college search process was choosing choosing which college I would attend what?

Sorry, choosing which major I wanted to participate in.

And then once I had figured out that I wanted to attend CSU, I still had to choose some more. What did I want my schedule to look like? What residence Hall did I want to live in? I hope that engineering exploration we can kind of help you choose if CSU is the right fit for you, but right now I hope that I can help aid in your college search process.

And specifically, in choosing a major.

I hope you enjoyed our Department sessions earlier this week, but now I'm going to briefly go through all of the majors just as a recap, and there are a lot of them.

Let's start with our first major or mechanical engineering.

The largest major in the College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering was a degree offered when our school was known as Colorado A&M, where the M stands for mechanical. A fun fact about the mechanical engineering program is that they just recently launched an aerospace concentration program, whereas mechanical engineering typically looks at things that are meant to move like cars and machines. Civil engineering looks at things that are meant to be idle like bridges and dams.

Civil Engineering is also a very well established major at is, as it's ranked top 20 in the entire world for civil engineering. Specifically in our water quality studies.

Whereas it's in the same Department as civil engineering, environmental engineering looks at water quality, where civil engineering tends to look at water quantity. I normally recommend that if students were interested in water quality or clean water to go into environmental engineering. Otherwise, if they were interested in other areas of the environment like pollution or fuels to look at chemical and biological engineering instead.

Chemical and biological engineering offers the curriculum of both chemical engineering and biological engineering in one major, it was the first abet accredited major of its kind for both chemical and biological engineering. The chemical and biological engineering program allows students to go into various fields of interest from process engineering to biofuels and even cosmetics. And when I say a bet accredited, I'm talking about a national accreditation board that looks at each program just to make sure that we teach students.

The necessary information for when they enter the workforce. All of the majors in the College of engineering are a bit accredited.

The next majors are electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering looks more at electrical components and circuitry while computer engineering can be viewed as a combination of both electrical and computer electrical engineering. Sorry an computer science typically students look at the connection of hardware and software like computer architecture and embedded systems.

Lastly, our biomedical engineering program.

We offer a unique dual degree program for both bio medical engineering, Anna partnering major of either mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or chemical and biological engineering. This five year program allows students to specialize in different areas within the bio medical industry. For example, prosthetics with mechanical engineering, MRI and EKG machines with electrical engineering and Pharmaceuticals for chemical and biological engineering.

Now, if you are choosing between a couple of majors or just don't know which major to choose, in general, I would recommend engineering open option. Declaring engineering open option is a great choice because you will be admitted to the College of engineering, but you'll you won't have a specified major. Instead, you'll take a course called the grand challenges of Engineering, where you'll look at some of the biggest problems at engineers face in our lifetime and how that relates to every major.

As you can see, there are a lot of different majors offered in the College of engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical, civil, environmental, chemical and biological, electrical, computer and engineering. Open option.

For some people they know exactly what they want to do in their professional, professional career, and so they choose a major based on that. Maybe you want to work at NASA designing rockets so you go into mechanical engineering. Or maybe you're like Camille and you want to develop new Pharmaceuticals so you choose bio medical and chemical and biological engineering for others like me. It's hard to know exactly how you want to spend your professional career.

When I first applied I was admitted to the dual degree biomedical and Mechanical Engineering Program, I chose at major simply because I liked biology in high school and mechanical engineering was a well known major that quickly changed. I had then changed my major to computer engineering after doing another 10 minutes of research because it seemed the most interesting to me as you can see I was not tide to any particular major because I felt like I needed to experience these classes.

Before I had really decided what I wanted to do with my life.

I went to college with an open mind ready for new challenges ahead and ready to start my new independent life. Once I got to college. I wasn't sure if I had picked the correct major. I looked at the classes that I took similarly to how I looked at high school classes. I liked taking them because I had to Ann. I definitely liked some of them more than others.

When I talk to other students they said they were really passionate about what they were learning or the industry that they wanted to go into, and I never really experienced that. Still, I like some of my classes an no other major seemed really interesting to me, so I stuck with it.

Now jump to the fall semester of my third year. My advisor told me that the classes. I enjoy in my junior year will dictate the industry that I go into professionally.

And I had told myself that if I didn't find a class or a subject that I was passionate about by the end of the fall semester, I would change my major.

Luckily I found my passion.

In my first year I had taken a class called digital logic and while I really liked the material and I wanted to learn more, it was really hard for me to understand how it all fit to the real world because everything was so conceptual and traditionally all first year classes can be pretty conceptual and it isn't until your later years in your major that you kind of start to see the connection between everything that you're learning in your course material.

So in my third year I had taken a class called digital design and that had completely changed my viewpoint of my major. I loved the topic that I was learning an from that class. I decided that circuit design was exactly what I wanted to go into.

While the class was definitely challenging and I definitely spent over 10 hours a week just working on labs, I finally understood what other students were talking about. I didn't mind doing the work, no matter how challenging it was because I really enjoyed what I was doing and I wanted to do it.

So if there is anything that you take away from my story is that everyone has their own path in their own time, and sometimes it just takes awhile for you to figure it out. Don't compare yourself to others who know exactly what they want to do once they graduate, because at this stage in your life it's all about you. It's about your future and it's going to be your own timeline.

Don't forget to do your research as much as you can to try to figure out which major piques your interest by participating in engineering exploration. Wait, you've already taken that first step.

Now, once you declare your major, don't be discouraged to look for a new path. If you pick a major an it isn't what you thought it would be. Don't be scared to change your mind and maybe change it five times. Don't jump to conclusions. It took me a whole two years until I figured out what I wanted to do once I graduated.

Maybe it'll take you one year, maybe it'll take you 3.

Remember that there are many majors in the College of Engineering. An at CSU as a whole. There is always going to be an option that works with your life plan. When your passions in your time.

Now I'm going to pass it on to Sammy, who is another fellow ambassador, and she's going to talk a little bit more about what to expect with engineering exploration week today.

Great thank you, Kylie. Thank you so much. That was a wonderful overview. Anna great takeaway to that. You don't need to have your entire life figured out right now and I hope that everybody that's on the call right now can hear that again. You don't figure out your whole life right now. Just take that. Take that, load up your back for a second and take a deep breath. But what I will say is that seeing all of you here today brings me so much joy and I think that I can speak on behalf of all of my fellow student embassadors in saying that sharing our passion for engineering with all of you.

And seeing you sharing that excitement as well is definitely the highlight of our jobs. But before I dive a bit more into my story and the logistics for the day, I'd love to introduce you to the rest of the ambassador team that you met. Kind of through the chat, and we're hoping that you'll be able to interact with these amazing people throughout the day. So we had a lot of fun making this video and we hope that you enjoy it.

Wow, I've watched that video probably like 20 times and it still just like makes me so happy every time I see it an shout out to Connor for making the video. He was the one that got bumped in the head with a with a tennis ball. So claps for him. But the wonderful people in this video are not only my coworkers, but like Camille said they become some of my best friends and we are here for all of you. If you haven't already met you and everyone of us through this past week.

We're hoping that you get to interact with us today and meet us in student panels or guiding your virtual tours.

But now that you have met everybody in a little bit more detail, I'd like to introduce myself a bit more so my name is Sammy. I'm originally from Centennial Co. My pronouns are she, her, hers, and I'm in my 4th and final year studying Civil Engineering, graduating in May, and I'm so excited to share with you a little glimpse into my story and talk about logistics for the day because engineers love details and I'm sure you want to hear more about that.

So I hope this week so far has been what I like to call beneficially overwhelming. I know what that's like. Four years ago I was in your shoes, in a place where I was looking forward to the big decisions to come, but had no idea how to tackle them. You might be feeling overwhelmed, unsure, indecisive, and yet at the same time, so excited to turn the page into the next chapter of your life. Having the world at your fingertips and so many options for what to study and where to study it.

Can seem daunting. Don't you wish that somebody could just tell you exactly what to do so you could save yourself the trouble of making all these hard choices. That's the way I felt not too long ago when I was choosing a program and and the major. Finally, I landed on civil engineering at CSU and I thought I was good to go. But like highly kind of mentioned earlier, the decisions don't stop there. In fact, they probably get even harder. Now I'm facing those tough decisions yet again as a graduating senior, considering the opportunities for graduate studies.

And the multitude of options for a future career. Many doors are open to you and to each and everyone of us. And it seems that the hardest part of the whole process is Qujing choosing which of those doors to walk through one after the next after the next. But whether it's studying at CSU or elsewhere, whether it's engineering or not, I believe that you will end up exactly where you need to be. There's no one right choice, and you'll get out what you put in wherever you go, and simply showing up to this event shows a motivation and a desire to be well informed and confident in whatever decision you make.

I found that clarity when I attended this event during the spring semester of my senior year of high school. I got to spend the weekend in Fort Collins and fell in love with the town and Csus Beautiful campus, and I learned so much about the Department, the lab activities and much more. Much like you have these past five days, but the most influential part of all of it was the people that I met. In fact, I was able to grab coffee with an old friend from high school who was a year ahead of me and in her first year studying civil engineering at the issue. I remember that chilly morning sitting across from her at Alley Cat Coffee House just across from campus.

And I began to vicariously experience the wonders of engineering and CSU through her. She told me all about her classes, her weekend adventures in the mountains, the frenchies made, and this tiny glimpse into her life started a fire inside me as I finally began to picture what my CSU story could be. This conversation brought the clarity that I was looking for. An gave me that insider perspective about what being a CSU student is really like today. I hope to be that person for you. That's what we're here for as student Bass Odars

to share our experiences in the hopes of inspiring your future experiences, so please, don't be afraid to connect with us. Ask us questions, get advice, and even make some friends. Maybe we'll see some of you on campus in the near future.

In fact, I enjoyed this event so much that I put in my deposit for CSU that very same weekend. Of course, this is in the spring, so no pressure, but all that being said, I hope that for some of you this week will be part of your why I chose CSU testimony.

Now let's dive into some logistics for the day. I know this year looks a lot different and you're not able to join us on campus for an in person event as much as we wish you could. Nonetheless, we're grateful that we can connect with people logging in from across the country, maybe even across the world. I hope over the past five days you've really gotten to dive into the colleges, majors, research opportunities, labs, faces, and hear from students about their personal experiences. If you have any questions as I run through the following logistics, feel free to throw them in the chat.

I don't know where it is, but throw him in the chat so as you can see you are in for the grand finale today. You're already at our welcome session, so you're off to a good start. Give yourself a Pat on the back and depending on where you're located you may have had to wake up earlier than you would have preferred. So I want to give a big shout out to my West Coast friends.

Today will work much like the last five days. You should have pre registered for each of your sessions. When you registered for the event as a whole and you should have received an email with a link to join each session. Today we're specifically talking about student involvement all the way from campus organizations to study abroad to internships. This is the fun part of college, so I hope you really enjoy today. Although academics are critical in college and that's what you're here for, it's these experience that experiences that we're talking about today.

That make your college experience truly one of a kind.

Also, don't worry if you're unable to register for a session or if you need to hop in and out of something. All of our sessions will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel, which I think Jackie through a link in the chat so you can check them out after the event if need be.

At this point, I would love to hear from you, so I'm going to type a quick poll in the chat to hear about what your favorite part of the event has been so far.

And I apologize 'cause I have to type the polls on this thing are kind of weird 'cause I have to type them out in real time. So this will be a test of my typing skills.

And if I have a typo or misspell something, sorry, they don't teach us much of spelling in engineering school.

And let's wrote student pains instead of student panels.

That is also real. Just kidding. Alright, go ahead and respond to that poll in the group chat so I can hear a little bit about what you've enjoyed so far this week.

Got some votes for Oh Oh coming in student panels all right.

I love that. OK so it looks like student panels have have won the cake and I definitely agree. Kind of like what I said with my personal experiences of hearing about students an what their journey looks like. I think was the most beneficial part for me.

Next question is, what are you looking forward to learning today?

We have like I said, study abroad. We have internships and Co op switch will talk a little bit more about if you don't know how to. Coop is no worries. We're going to talk about student organizations. We're going to talk about living on campus or residence life, and we're going to talk about engineering labs, facilities and everything else on our tours.

So does this mean this poll go ahead and respond to that in the group chat as well? I want to see what you're most looking forward to today.

Excellent lots for lots for study abroad.

Internship Coop. Student Orgs are pretty even. I think it's.

Pretty fun this, like I said, is the fun part, so I hope you get a chance to explore a little bit of everything this week.

Alright.

Pretty even excellent Lastly.

Switch switch slides here. I hope that you all have had fun participating in our scavenger hunt on the Goose Chase app, so the hunt continues today and I want to make sure that you rack up those points. If you haven't downloaded the app yet, it's not too late to join an. In fact, I'll give you some insider info and tell you that not a lot of people have been playing, so your chances are still really good. I encourage all of you to pull out your phones right now. Download the app. You can even zone out on the next 30 seconds of what I'm saying if that's what it takes. Put your phone. Download the app.

Use it that code on the screen WKXRQJ to join our game and start playing the top three scores will receive some cool CSU swag, so make sure to be doing that all day today, not only for the potential prize, but it's also kind of fun and will allow us to engage with you a little bit more.

Next, if you have any questions throughout the day, you can feel free to get in touch with us via our website chat feature which will be open from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. So throughout the event you can also use our email which is written on the slide. There it's explore at engr.colostate.edu and we'll have our student ambassadors monitoring both the chat and the email throughout the day. 'cause I know that virtual events can get kind of confusing and you're like Oh, where's the link? Where do I go? So we're here to help you out with that. We would also love to answer some questions at the end of this session, so if you have any at the moment.

Please throw them the chat and will take some time to answer them in a few minutes.

Or will answer them right now. So if you have any questions, go ahead and throw them in the chat so I know that let's see is it too late to register for one of the sessions today? So yeah.

Registration was that based off of again, like originally signing up for the event, but like I said, all of the sessions from today and throughout the week will be posted to our YouTube channel within the next week, so just keep an eye on that. Our YouTube channel is listed on this slide are right here, so it's the CSU engineer on YouTube, so go ahead and check those out if you're not able to attend a session today. But yes they are. I don't believe an yes Jackie just threw her email in the chat. She is Queen of getting people.

Like linked up with whatever they need so you can send Jackie an email right there and she can. She can help you out a little bit more with that.

Let's see you.

Any other?

Well, this link work for the residents tour. I'm not sure. Let's see.

I believe each link for each session is separate from one another. So like I said, there should be an email. Yes, Jackie, it just posted in the chat. There's an individual link for each session, so it's not a one link fits all and.

If you're if you want to like, make a little spreadsheet for yourself and say, OK, this is my link. This is what I'm going to rather than fishing for your email. Each of those emails, like I said, should contain the link to join the session, whether that be slate, which is what we're using right now. Or maybe I think there's a couple of Sessions on zoom, but not many.

Yes, be sure to check your emails. Have that open all day.

I know there is a question previously in the chat and Kaylee if you would like to unmute an answer it was asking about if changing your major multiple times that you back at all.

Oh yeah, that's a good question. I didn't see that, but I can definitely answer that. It did not. I specifically changed my major before school started, so before I had even started my first year. So that's why it didn't send me back. But I know a lot of students who have like kind of change their major while attending CSU, and it kind of depends on like how many credits you have coming in, how appealing summer school sounds to you if you kind of need to fill in some gaps, but.

For the most part, it shouldn't set you back.

Much, if at all.

Great.

Excellent great insight alright, it looks like my fellow student passengers and Jackie are doing a great job of answering questions in the chat, so I think we've pretty much covered everything. But again, if you have any questions throughout the day, feel free to use the chat feature on the CSU College of engineering website or you can email us at that email. In the last slide as well if you want to just take a quick a quick photo of it, but will close out just to give you a few extra minutes between this session and the next one so.

I'm just to finalize some of the things that we're talking about and to give you an opportunity to continue to connect with CSU. If you can't get enough or you weren't able to attend a certain session today, we invite you to participate in even more virtual opportunities with DSU throughout the semester. So not just this past week, but throughout the semester, we offer informational webinars, one on ones with current students like myself, Camille, Kylie or any of the ambassadors that you've met in the chat. We also have virtual tours much like those that you'll participate in later today.

And if there's anything you didn't see this week, or questions that weren't answered, all these things are a wonderful opportunity to get that final clarity. And all this info again can be found on the CSU College of engineering website under the future students tab, where you can get more info and register for these opportunities.

Last but not least, don't forget to follow us on social media to keep up with all the cool things the College of Engineering is doing. An trust me. There are a lot of them are Instagram is always active with great information. Faculty and student recognition of all the awesome things they're doing. We talk about campus events like this one research discoveries at CSU, especially right now. There's a lot related to Kovid, and there's a lot more. We do student takeovers on Tuesdays. You maybe saw me there last week. It's really fun and gives you again that glimpse into the inside of perspective.

On what being an engineer at CSU is like? So those are our tags. Make sure to follow us on social media and finally I just wanted to give a huge thank you to everyone attending engineering exploration week. I hope that today is the cherry on top of the event. Don't be afraid to get excited about what your future holds like, Camille said earlier. It's going to be so cool. I wish you all the best of luck and I'm rooting for you and I'll see you in some of the breakout sessions throughout the day.

Gorams

Thanks everyone.

And then just stay on and see if anyone else is needing help.

Yeah go Rams.

Gorams

So cool.

I think I found.

Concept.

I loved it.

Cool.

Cool, I'm going to head.

Hey, great job. That was awesome.

Thank you doctor crazy.

Thank you, Barbara crazy.

Right, yeah, I'll see you see you later. I've got nothing else to do today since the fire is out there and everything, but you know so.

Yep.

Honestly, stay indoors, stay safe.

Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah yeah, well have a great day. How do we go? One last thing how do I get out of here?

If you just close your browser.

Oh no.

Does the browser OK?

Out there.

How's it going?

Yeah everyone, if you are still on here. If you just close your browser.

It should take you outta here.

Yeah.

Your next session.

Boo.

Cool.

OK, I'm on tech support for the internships in Coop. So imma head out.

Hello pop, in 'cause my friends on there too so much like.

Hi.

So I'll see you there.