Live Virtual Tour: Chemical and Biological Engineering

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If you ever have any sort of questions throughout the tour, let me know if you just want to make sure in the right place. This is the engineering virtual tour here for chemical and biological engineering. Here at CSU, we're going to give everyone like 2 three minutes. I know obviously the different panel, so I'm going to have to wait here for a second. I'm going to be joined by one other student ambassador here in just one second. She's just grabbing a Cup of water. We've been talking all day so throats will dry.

But yeah, if you have any questions at all about anything, it can literally be about anything. Throw them in the chat.

And that will get started here shortly, so.

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Dan, if there's a student that's been listening in on us, please let us know. We will definitely start. We just wanted to make sure that we have people here before we start, and so if you can hear this, just type a high in the chat.

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All right well hello everyone, welcome to our engineering virtual tour for chemical and biological engineering. Here at the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering at Colorado State University.

It's a mouthful. My name is Connor. Used pronuncian his I'm a third year studying chemical and biological engineering here at CSU and today I'm going to have someone help me out and that is.

Hi everyone, my name is Ananya. My pronouns, are she her and hers and I'm in my third year like Connor studying chemical and biological engineering and we're just really excited to tell you about everything were involved in both within the college, an outside of the college, and really show you the reasons why we chose CSU and why we still continue to love it. So Connor, do you want to start us off here?

Yeah, sounds good.

If at any point you guys have any questions thrown in chat will answer him. This is kind of like a more personal intimate like let us know if you have anything sort of thing so don't feel shy they can. The question can be about literally anything so don't worry. So yeah, welcome to campus. Virtually if you don't already know. CSU is located in Fort Collins, Co is about 45 ish minutes North of Denver, Co.

Which is probably the city that you know it's about 5500 feet's got some nice hot summers, but some nice snowy and cozy winters at the same time.

Amber's itself, I don't know the actual mileage or how big it is, but it's very luscious and green. As you can see in that picture, and there's plenty of bike paths and a bunch of other things that we'll talk about here shortly. We have a quick question in the chat from Jackie. Is it easy to get to Denver if I don't have a car? Yes, there is multiple options for you.

Probably not the best one, but a one. If you had to, would be like a Uber or Lyft for Collins is plenty of those around if you need it, but there is something called. I believe it's still called Green Ride. Correct me if I'm wrong and on. Yeah, I don't know. It's been changing name.

They just actually recently changed it, so now it's called Groome Transportation.

Groome transportation yeah, so you can sign up for that. It's fairly inexpensive and they've run just shuttle to DNA and back. So for flights and things like that you can do that. Non year might know a little bit more about that than I do. Is there anything on this thing?

Yes, so I don't have a car up here, so I definitely use a lot of those resources, which is why don't we know about them. We also have Zipcar, which is essentially a car system where you just create an account, and so it's essentially like an ogre except you just get to drive yourself around and some cars you can just not just use them for getting to the Denver Airport. You can also just use them till you do grocery runs or anything like that, so it's definitely very convenient. And apart from that we also have a bus service called Mustang and those buses.

Some of the stops are with on our campus itself, and so it's definitely a very convenient option for students to get to downtown Denver and just get around Denver as well. So definitely a lot of ways to get around, and if you don't want to use any of those resources, oftentimes a lot of your friends are most likely going to have cars, and so I've definitely used a lot of my friends to get me right to the airport as well, and they're always really sweet and great at that, so there's a lot of ways.

Yeah.

A good way to make friends during your first year as they have a car. Trust me, I was. I was. I was the dude on the floor with the car so yeah.

Alrighty, so let's go back to talking bout campus. So our campus is really close to the mountains. These pictures probably don't do it justice. It's really only about a 10 minute drive, not even 10 minutes. Probably about a 5 minute drive and you start getting some elevation really quick.

We also have this thing called Horsetooth Reservoir. If you haven't heard about it already, just giant reservoir that has a lot of trails. It has some little picnic in beach areas that you can go with and hang out with friends. There's a dock for boats, so if somehow you have a boat or you know someone who has a boat, you can always go out boating. That's always really fun. It's also really close to a State Park called Lory State Park there right next to each other. Lot of great trails and really good way to get.

How do you dorm or out of your residence Hall and just kind of you know, go out and get some fresh air. So that's another great way to do that. There's also just probably 5 minute walk North of campus. There's something called Old Town. It's basically a big collection. It's like it's like.

We have College Ave which is our main road and on the sides we have once a restaurants and are you know art displays and coffee shops and Thrift stores and pretty much anything you can name. I know that is a Disney World or Disneyland's. The Main.

The main strip is modeled after Fort Collins. I don't remember. Someone said that once and I was blown away.

I'm not quite sure which one it is.

Disney World Disney World Jackets got us there. Yeah? So that's a really cool place. And during the winter season they put up a bunch of lights around and so really great place.

Fort Collins and campus in general is a really bike friendly. It's one of the most bike friendly places in the USI bike. Everyday. I live off campus now. My bike everyday to class, and I've always felt safe and there are bike paths everywhere on campus and there is usually a separate sidewalk for people who are walking, so not a lot of traffic or anything like that. And yeah, everyone kind of knows what they're doing when they're biking up here, so it's always been really nice.

You'll see in the top left picture there picture of a big giant fields. That's one of our ion fields. We have a bunch of these in the center of campus really help separate out the buildings, makes it feel nice and open so you can definitely always go there if we need to just relax. We also have a brand new lagoon you'll see on the top left is that little pond that was just finished this year. That's really nice place. There's a bunch of discrete little nooks and crannies you can find.

It's just going to relax and be out in nature on campus. We also have a brand new stadium and a brand new football coach, so hopefully that will workout for us that is pictured in the bottom right picture. As you can see it is gorgeous. It is a one of the best stadiums that I've ever been to. Really cool. You get a nice view of the mountains and during games sometimes the The Sun will come set behind the mountains and like hit you in the eyes and it seems like something from like some fancy movie or something.

So yeah.

Anything else, we also have the Lory Student Center which is in the top left picture. It's just to the rival lagoon that's where you will find. Like the food court, the bookstore.

One else is a lot of stuff there. Student organizations are student Senate things like that, or also there have been like the president's office and other administrative things are there as well.

So yeah, I think that's everything. did I miss new thing and Anya?

No, I think you covered it all. There's definitely a lot of cool spots on campus too. Just not just study, but hang out with friends. Anna really fun fact two is many of you are familiar with the San Francisco area. You know that there's a lot of hearts that you'll find like statues of them around the city. And just like that in Fort Collins, something that I didn't know about until I was on campus itself is that you will find a lot of pianos not just on campus, but all throughout Old Town which is the downtown Fort Collins area. And it's a really cool way to just hear someone else randomly stop and play music along their day and so.

Just a really cool way to honestly just interact with strangers and maybe that you usually wouldn't, and so there's definitely a huge strong sense of community wherever you go.

Yeah, and there is one more thing I forgot that I should have said and you mentioned San Francisco. Fort Collins has the second highest restaurant per capita ratio in the US only. Second to for instance San Francisco. So there are so many restaurants. There are so many coffee shops there is Boba tea there's.

A lot more than my hometown would just say that. So definitely plenty of food and food options up here and big food culture. I'd say You'll see, there's also some great bars and stuff for when you're of age and things like that so.

A lot of entertainment. We also have a drive in theater really close to campus. It's one of the last ones in the US. It's only from my house. It's like 4 minutes. It's really really close. So yeah, that was a great way in freshman year. Going on people. You just bring some chair. I have a pickup truck so we just put some pillows down. We all just kind of hung out in the bed and pick up and watch the movie, so that's another great thing to do but not moving away from sort of the social relaxing towards software to talk a little bit more about.

Some of the buildings and things that you'll use as a chemical and biological engineer. For that I'm going to turn it over to Ananya, where we're going to talk about the Scott Bio Engineering Building.

Definitely so Scott Bio Engineering Building as the main states is a building that's more geared towards like the biological side of engineering disciplines and so a lot of chemical and biological engineers and biomedical engineering students have classes in this building and I have definitely spent a lot of time in this building just because I've had a lot of classes in here. But apart from that the layout of this building itself is structured in a way that it really houses a lot of research labs and the reason why is because.

Three of the main skills, I guess that engineers at CSU really acquire are the critical thinking and problem solving skills.

And then the collaboration aspect of that. And apart from that, the hands on experience. And that's something that's emphasized from that first year itself. And so I got him often research during my first year and this lab and be involved in labs has definitely allowed me to spend a lot of time in this building. And there's definitely a lot of study spaces in here as well, which we will go ahead and show you. And I think Connor have definitely spent a lot of time here, which is why it's almost like a second home to us.

Anytime we're on campus and it's incredible, so we're just gonna go inside this building and look at some of the resources and faces that we have. So one of the first steps that we actually have inside this building is our engineering success center, and I might be biased when I'm talking about this because as an engineering student, master both Connor and I do work out of this office. But the reason we love it so much is because this is essentially a Career Center geared for engineering students within our lory student center itself. We do have a Career Center, but that's.

More so just for anybody in the University, but since this one is for engineering students, you get more real time feedback about what professionals in the industry require of engineering students as well, and the way you get that is through resources like resume rush, in which you get either professionals in the industry or professionals that we actually have in this office who have a ton of experience looking at all sorts of different resumes and they're really able to tell you how to cater your resume for the job that you are applying for, because different job descriptions can require different things.

And apart from that, engineering resumes can often look very different than, let's say, an interior design majors or journalism major. An Interior in an engineering resume. You'll definitely find many points that are a lot more straightforward and will be very based on technical skills rather than focusing on the designing aspect of the resume. And so I can definitely look very different, but having those professionals therefore able to guide you on that is definitely very helpful. And the other part where there really.

Able to guide you as well in terms of career development is through mock interviews and so as the name sounds, they're essentially mock interviews, and so depending on whatever job you're applying for, they cater the questions to the job you're applying form as well. And the great thing about it is instead of just having an interview and then having them tell you that you did a great job, they do actually also offer you feedback, and so if there's something that you really aren't sure about, well, if you just want practice and you want to feel more comfortable with the idea.

Of interviewing at the 1st place, the mock interviews can be a really useful tool to be able to practice that. Apart from that we also have diversity programs in engineering that run out of this office and so those are RDP organisations and their intended to allow underrepresented groups specifically within engineering and STEM fields to have a voice within the College of engineering as well, and so some of the clubs would then that are necessary with just the National Society of black engineers ship which is the Society of Hispanic professional engineers we have.

Basis which is the American Indian Society of scientists and engineers and sweet just a Society of women engineers and then a fifth one that I'm for some reason for getting. But they're all really cool opportunities for a lot of students to be involved and find that sense of community within the College of engineering. And they're really great ways to help students build both a professional development side, but also have the personal growth aspect of it as well. Because you are interacting with your peers, and especially if you're interacting with upperclassmen, your oftentimes able to.

Learn about their experiences and you can often cater that to your own experience and see how you can learn from that. So lots of cool opportunities and one of the Super cool things that this office does is actually engineering career fairs. And so we recently had our one for this year earlier this month and the really great thing about engineering career fairs is that we get employers that represent every single discipline of engineering that we offer and students are able to interact with these employers and.

Not just understand how networking works, especially starting off that first year itself, but also be able to find opportunities for internships or understand how they should change their resume so that there are chances of getting an internship might change as well. Definitely lots of cool ways to get involved, not just on campus but within the industry itself. Connor, do you have anything to add to that?

I'm.

Not really, I'd say maybe the one thing is definitely go to these. They're completely free to sign up, and even if you're just a little first year, it's good to go and get that experience of talking to someone and trying to sell your yourself and your work to someone else. This thing, like, hey, like I can help you out. All that sort of stuff that's always good to do so. Definitely attend. Attend those if you can. They're completely free and the Career Center. It's not just for undergraduate two. As soon as you graduate.

All these resources that we've been talking about are still available to you, and there's many. There's been many people that have gotten jobs through this Career Center once they, once they.

Graduated, so yeah, it's a great great place to get help with more of that professional side, so yeah.

Great quote, so we're going to go ahead and talk about some of the design studios here in the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering. You'll see in the bottom right that it's named the one of them at least is named the Cassini design studio. That's because CSU and Lockheed Martin have a really great relationship with one another, and basically these design studios were sponsored by Lockheed Martin and so.

The if you can look in the top left there, you'll see that it's basically a big center table and then on the outside you have all the normal like individual desks and stuff. And this is basically an exact replica of how Lockheed Martin has all their design studios.

And the main idea is that in the center you can have everyone gather talk to each other.

Work something out and then they all turn around and go workout their individual stations to get the job done. So that's really cool. These these design studios for engineers. As long as someone else hasn't reserved them for some purpose, they're available 24/7. These softness computers also have all the engineering software that you'd need. Matlab you have any sort of CAD programs you have.

Bunch of just basically anything you could need. And yeah, you can access these anytime. You can also reserve these. So let's say you have a club or you have some sort of study session going on. You can basically go to the website and reserve these rooms and they're yours and theirs projector in there. And there's a whiteboard on basically everything you'd need. Along those lines. There's also printers and every single year part of your student fees go to printing credits so you can print.

Color and black and white. I think it's you got like $30 ish of printing credit a semester. I don't remember exactly, but a black and white sheet is 2 cents and a colored sheet is 3 cents, so I only know of one person who's been able to run out of printing credit, so you'll have plenty of chances to print it. You don't need to buy your own printer. Another great thing, just kind of in general about the technology for CBE students specifically is that we have something called a virtual classroom.

And this virtual classroom essentially lets you connect to.

These main like mainframe computers with all the software and stuff from anywhere, it uses just a VPN sort of service. You basically say hey, yes I'm I'm the person trying to log on and so if you don't want to go all the way to campus like I sometimes don't, you can connect and get all that software just from your home computer. It works for both windows and Mac. You don't have to pay for it, it's probably your student for you student fees and it's a great way.

So if you wanna have like 2 monitors or two different things going on, you can have your virtual classroom open on one of the new normal computer on the other.

Did I miss anything with the design studios?

Now OK, great.

I'll go ahead and just briefly talk about just kind of other cool design spaces here. This right here. I have spent so many hours in this little cube. It's one of my favorite places on campus. 'cause you get a nice gorgeous view of the bio engineering building and the wall on the right is actually a whiteboard wall, so it's always fun. But there's a bunch of different places in the Scott bio engineering itself. Like we said earlier, it is kind of your second home so you will end up spending. You'll have a lot of labs in here.

And you'll have classes in here. You might have meetings for clubs and stuff in here. It's a great place and these little nooks and crannies are.

Just another great place to study when you're in the building, so yeah, but then I'm going to turn it over to Annonio. She knows a lot more about this than me for the dis chemical and biological engineering lab. That's Scott Bio Engineering.

Alright, so this is one of the main labs that can go on biological engineering students use and they do use it later on in their engineering career, but I've actually heard really cool stories about first year engineering students who have actually been brought into this lab. So definitely does depend on which professor you have, but doing that first year, chemical and biological engineering students are taking CD 101, which is an introduction to chemical and biological engineering class and apart from the lecture to that, they also have a lab component.

So I've heard really great stories about where a professor is actually brought a group of students to the slab, and they'll often time see the machine that's that's in front of eyes on this light right now, and so they'll just see all the wires plugged out of this machine and they will see water spewing everywhere and just all the parameters switching. And as a first year student, especially if that's your first experience, an exposure to a lab environment. You can imagine that would probably be very overwhelming and stressful, but the reason the professor does that is actually.

As in engineering itself, oftentimes you have a lot of situations which are unpredictable. Even if you do come up with an ideal solution and you expect it to work, there are a lot of different things that can go wrong, which is why as an engineer, having that problem solving component becomes so essential to be able to determine what changes you can make to your system to make sure things start working smoothly again. So students, after seeing all those things going everywhere, they are able to work together, and once they find out what this machine does.

They are able to really work on fixing it and making sure all the parameters work, but also gain a deeper understanding of it itself. So I've talked a lot about this machine, but not what it is itself and so this machine is a hemodialysis machine and what that is is, it's essentially mimicking an artificial kidney, so our kidneys are really intended to filter out any sort of toxins or waste products that we have within our bodies. But as you can imagine, if your kidney starts to malfunction or doesn't quite do its job.

That can put a lot of strain on your body and so this machine allows chemical and biological engineering students to understand how an artificial kidney would function, and so that little big bottle kind of thing that you see on the left side is supposed to mimic the kidney. And it really shows you how different things flow in and out of the kidney, which is why you have all these tubes connected everywhere. Apart from that, we have things like pressure sensors, oxygen meters and things like that, just to realize how different parts of the body work.

And this is really essential because as a chemical and biological engineer, let's say you're trying to think of different systems that work in the human body. If you have no exposure to have different parameters within the body itself, work that can be very stressful, and trying to figure out what the optimal solution might be. So by having labs like this, you're really able to externalize sort of those more internal components of the human body and have it in real time so you can see what sort of solutions you can prepare. Apart from that, we also have a lot of.

Other cool things in this lab and so that top left picture is just an overview of the lab space itself and the right side picture is just different equipment, so we have centrifugation machines and things like that, but the main picture that I'd like you to draw your attention to on the slide is the bottom left picture, in which we have those machines and like orange and white, and those are actually are bioreactors, and one of the easiest ways to explain those is, let's say you think of a medication. And let's say that medication says it's going to work effectively.

In 10 minutes you are able to really put that medication in the bioreactor. Put conditions that you'd expect to see in the human body and then see if that medication does what it claims to do. Let's say it doesn't achieve its objective in 10 minutes. Yes, you would know that it doesn't necessarily work as well as it's supposed to, but as an engineer you also take it one step further and you think about how you can change certain things to make sure that it not just meets its claim, but it also may be improved on its claim, and so that might be really cool to do with medication.

Yeah.

If you're, let's say, interested in Pharmaceuticals, but let's say you're interested in something completely different like fermentation science for example, a lot of our students also do use these bioreactors for fermenting beer, and one of the cool things about that is that at CSU we have a really great internship and coop opportunity for a lot of our students with New Belgium brewery, and I correct me if I'm wrong, Connor, but I believe that was the first microbrewery that we had in. OK, so that was the

microbrewery that we had in Fort Collins, and we definitely have a lot of those. And so we have a lot of great relationships with New Belgium, Odell and other ones that are slipping my mind at this moment. But we all have our students do work with those, and so they often tore the companies, but they are able to get practice before they actually go in and do their internships. They're able to practice with these bioreactors themselves and understand how all those processes work as well, and the other cool thing is, let's say a student.

Is using these bio reactors in a lab and it's more focused towards the pharmaceutical side and you definitely know that that's not what you're interested in. That's totally alright, because in those upper class years, so either that could be your second semester in your third year or in your 4th year. Students also have the opportunity to take technical electives and what those are our specialized classes in which you can really delve deeper into your subject area and take any sort of class that interests you and so.

Let's say you're interested in tissue engineering. You can take classes that are more related to tissue engineering and really hone in on those skills so that when you actually end up applying to industry, then those employers are able to see that, while yes, you did do chemical and biological engineering like all the other students, that might have done that as well, you have more specialized skills that you can then enter the workforce with.

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Alright, so we're going to move over. We're going to shift from just talking about CBE to one of the potential dual majors that you can do is CBE. And that is biomedical engineering.

And this is located just across the Hall from the CBE lab. This is on the 2nd floor of the Scott Bio Engineering Building. I believe maybe to start.

One of them, Ascentia Lee. This lab is made for a bio medical Engineering Class. I believe. It's Biome 300 maybe?

And yes, I think it's around 300 and it's taken by all the students in biomedical engineering, regardless of the partner major. So for those of you who don't know, we have CC offers a dual degree program in biomedical engineering, so essentially you can do chemical and biological engineering with biomedical engineering. You can do electrical and computer engineering with biomedical engineering, or you need mechanical engineering with biomedical engineering. And so essentially this lab is for one of the classes where it's really heavily researched base.

And it's a really good cooperative environment. So in this class, for example, you might be given just a simple question why? Why is prostate cancer so hard to detect? Then you have to go. You have to read literature about it. You have to figure out why that is, and then you have to present it. Then you have to come up with a solution that could potentially fix this, and so this sort of collaborative work environment.

It is something that seriously really holds true, not only in labs like this, but also in a bunch of different research opportunities that we have here. For example, in my research lab that I'm a part of, I'm working with a.

Mechanical a mechanical biomedical a chemical a chemical Biomedical.

A PhD in material science.

A Masters in mechanical and someone else. Anyways lot of different people that you end up working with and so this is just another great example of it. Here you can see we have our student Masters, one of them that's actually with us in this call.

Just doing it, there's just a bunch of different stuff that people end up doing in this lab.

I'm gonna take a second to just briefly explain why we have dual degrees for biomedical engineering, biomedical engineering and itself is really broad field. You can think about it like developing like a new pharmaceutical to like.

Finding out, like you know, cool nail Polish or you know, prosthetics or something. It's a really broad field, and so since we CSU talk to industry, an industry said, yeah, you know you could actually offer biomedical engineering program, but we'd want you to pair it with something a little bit more specific so that you can be more specialized. So for mechanical engineering, let's say if you did mechanical and Biomedical, you work maybe something with prosthetics where you might work with.

You know joints, you know something that moves kind of the mechanics, right? For chemical you could be Pharmaceuticals you could be.

Different bio.

Biopolymers, or, you know, biomaterials things like that and then electrical. You could do stuff with imaging like MRI's things like that so.

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Yeah, I'm trying to think what else. If you're wondering what they're doing in the bottom right of that picture right there, they were just testing those as seen on TV product, so it's like do this for 15 minutes a day and you'll have rock hard abs. And from what I can tell, I believe it turned out to be false, so.

The full side out there, but yeah, anything that I missed.

Now, I definitely said there's a lot of cool projects that they do, so too are research based and then two are just based on experimentation and so the as seen on TV, one is definitely more based on experimentation. But the prostate cancer one would be more on the research side and the projects do change every year. So this past year before we sort of went on the summer break, the students were actually before we went on like lock down and everything for the pandemic. The students were working on thinking of solutions but also just thinking of different things that we have to do to mitigate the risks of the pandemic as well.

And so a lot of them were able to predict that we'd have a lock down in the end, like duration of the lockdown, and things like that. So it's definitely very applicable to the real world, as you'll find that a lot of labs that we deal with honestly are.

Honey.

Great, alright, so that's that's the end of the Scott Bio Engineering Building. You can also look up online if you just Google Scott bio engineering CSU. You'll find a bunch of all the fancy pictures and you can kind of get a better idea of what the actual building looks like. For now though, we're going to switch over to the.

Normal or the older engineering building and for that. I'm going to have a non you explain just a little bit more about it.

Right, so it's kind of said this is our older engineering building. Sir Scott Bio Engineering Building is definitely the newer of our buildings, but in this building the difference is a lot of the other engineering disciplines are housed in here, so whether that be like civil and environmental, chemical or computer and electrical and mechanical engineering, students usually have classes here, but you'll often also find a lot of chemical and biological engineering students here simply because, especially during that first year or two, students will have to take a lot of those general classes like math or physics.

And so towards the end of this building, a lot of those classes do take place. Apart from that, a lot of TAS which are teaching assistants, and so those are graduate students that help teach whatever subject they are helping you out with. They also often have their office hours in here, so it's just a really useful place to just interact with other engineers, but also just those teaching assistance as well.

And fun fact about this building is that and actually stretches all the way from our lory student center to our Oval. And so if you've ever been to campus, or if you've ever seen any pictures of it, that's the huge hallway, and I believe it's the longest hole in it that we have across the entire campus.

Yeah, so another quick thing. Engineering Building also kind of is joined together with the physics building so on for all of your physics classes. Basically every engineering discipline has to take physics one and two, and those both have a lab associated with it. So your lattice will be in this building, kind of on the Far East side of it.

Just like she said, it's mostly for some of the other engineering majors. We have our own fancy little building.

But in the Engineering Building in the basement.

Excuse me, we have something called the idea of the product lab and I have a heavy bias for this because I am a part of it, but the idea to product lab. Like I said, it's in the basement. It focuses on the 3D printing, so this lab was founded a couple years ago by one of the mechanical engineering professors here at CSU. He had always been on the forefront of 3D printing with his research and so we wanted to.

Providing opportunity like that to students. So this lab is available to the general public for like 90 something dollars.

A semester, but for students and it's It's only like $20.00. So you pay the lab fee to do a little bit of training and you buy your own little plastic filament that you can use and then you can come into the lab pretty much on anytime. 3D Print, whatever you want. You can do little gifts for people like I like to do. You can do stuff for class or let's say like hey, my brush broke like I need a new handle you could you could 3D print to handle it and touch it if you want it too. So yeah the lab itself.

Has how many printers?

A lot of printers like 14 printers or something like that and they have a bunch of different really cool materials that you can end up using. Of course you have all the typical like plastics, things like that, but they also have some that are infused with carbon fiber. So if you want something really strong and they also have stuff that is essentially wood, 3D printing would so you can make like a bread box for your Grandma.

Other than that?

Yeah, the 3D printing right? It's it's not sort of a traditional manufacturing like you don't drill into block of wood to get your 3D printed thing. You take nothing and then you print up with it. So it's really cool way to get involved. And it's also a great way as chemical engineers to kind of expand your boundaries a little bit traditionally wouldn't necessarily associate 3D printing with chemical engineers, but with the research lab that I'm a part of, I use 3D printers all the time and so I've been able to.

Learn card, which is this computer aided design to make little things for the lab and then I come in and I print them out and it's really helping me grow and just become a more well rounded engineer. You can check out the website for idea to product if you want. If you just say if you just Google idea to product CSU into Google and you'll find everything you need to know but.

Yeah, I think that's probably about it for the idea to product lab.

And yeah, we will move on. I forgot what this slide is about.

Alright, so this is actually a part of electrical and Computer Engineering, so we're definitely not going into electrical and computer engineering in this lab. But the cool thing about this is this is actually an Advanced Lab Advanced Beam lab that's located within our engineering Research Center, and so that's why we just wanted to put this in there, even though it is from electrical and computer engineering, because as we both mentioned, we're both very involved in research, and research is definitely a huge part.

CSU so CSU is ranked as a top Tier 1 research institution and the reason why is because there's a lot of cool research coming out of any of the department's within the campus. Specifically speaking within engineering itself allows students to choose to get involved in research, and that isn't necessarily only if they are interested in the idea of research itself. Research can oftentimes also help you realize that if you are passionate about something, you can sort of, you know, try it out, see if you completely hate it, and then you can leave it.

And so, in terms of narrowing down your career interests as well, it's definitely very, very helpful. And there's a lot of different ways to get involved in it as an undergraduate itself, and the reason why is because a lot of the professors that have these research labs oftentimes started out in research as undergraduates themselves, and so they want to make sure and be cognizant of the fact that other undergraduates might want to be and do the same, and should have the opportunities to do the same, and so I'm sure like Connor and I can both speak for experiences and how we got involved.

But I personally got involved through a program called hers, which is the honors undergraduate research scholars program, and it's a more structured program in the sense that you attend. These graduate student showcases, and then the director of the program partners you up with the research experience across campus. And it doesn't necessarily have to be within the engineering Department itself, but you get paired up and you get the option to just be involved in research and the reason why it doesn't necessarily matter whether you get involved with in the engineering Department.

Or outside of it is because research is very interdisciplinary and oftentimes a lot of skills that you learn working in one research lab can be applied to other ones as well. But in my case, I knew that I did want to get involved in engineering itself, and so instead of sort of relying on the director to pair me up with someone, I went the other route, which is another option that students can do, which is just emailing professors. So during the first year introductory class that I was talking about earlier, we had a guest lecture come in.

And this lecture is more focused on side of biomedical engineering, but also again using a lot of those chemical and biological engineering concepts. And so after the lecture I just emailed him and I was like I am going to be interested in your research. Would I be able to learn more that kind of thing and he was so sweet and so accommodating. We just set up a meeting. He talked about expectations, what his lab is involved in and I've been involved ever since that first year, and so that was a really positive experience. And then this year actually this semester I did want to get involved in other research lab as well.

So again, it was a very convenient process. I just emailed the professor and the cool thing is a lot of the engineering professors are involved in different types of research as well, and so you're truly able to experiment with different ideas and really learn what it takes. But there's definitely a lot of easy options to get involved in research. Connor, would you like to share your experience too?

Yeah for sure.

So I had a very similar experience in the sense that I was super nice and friendly. Essentially, after my first year here at CSU. In the summer I was just kind of thing. Actually, I don't want to do some research. I'm going to talk to some people, so I just sent out.

Big old wave of emails, probably about 20 emails I got Leeson bit of people selling. Now we're not looking for people but thank you but when I had a couple that were saying hey you can, yeah let's let's let's talk let's target interview set up and so.

It really was as simple as looking at all the different research CSU does, and I was able to find something that I liked and like. I said I sent an email and then I'm still working with them today so.

I've learned a lot of skills that I probably never would have otherwise, and don't assume that just because you're in chemical engineering, you can't be in a research lab that does other things too. You know, like I said, I'm mostly.

Or I'm not mostly I am mechanical engineer, but my research lab deals a lot with like bio medical as well, but there. So you'll find there's a lot of overlap. Physics, chemistry, calculus. That's pretty much what you need to know, and you'll find that a lot of things actually work together really well. So yeah, great, OK?

I guess we can go into office hours. Do you want to do this or I can do it?

You can go ahead and do it.

OK.

Yeah, so office hours if you don't know are essentially away too.

Talk one on one with your professor about whatever you need so office hours are usually held at least twice a week by professors, sometimes more, sometimes less. But essentially you go in. You ask questions about homework, about the course, material, ways to get other resources, ways to get tutoring, things like that, and they can help you out really easily.

It's intimidating, I won't lie the first time I went, I was like, Oh man, this is going to be.

Have to talk to her professor, some with a PhD about this work that he probably thinks it's simple and Yadda Yadda Yadda. You end up going and then you realized, like oh right, there like human too and so they they are super kind and respectful. Every time I've gone office hours it's been really nice actually. A really brief story. I'm in a basically a physical chemistry course right now with Ananya and I had a question. We had an exam coming up and was the day before the exam and was like Oh I don't understand this topic.

And I checked in his office, hours were still going.

It was 940 at night.

And I was like, you know what? I'm going to hop in there. I just want to see if he's on and I get there and he's like hanging out. It's like, oh hey, what's going on? So there's a Monday night. So Monday night at 10:00 o'clock at night, my professor was sitting there waiting for me to have questions. So you will find you can really get to know your professor as well. And that's a great way to network. But also it's just a great resource that I think is really overlooked.

Academic advising is a little bit different. This is usually done by someone in the faculty, but not necessarily your professor, just someone.

These are the people that will help you.

Schedule and plan out what you're going to do for the rest of your.

Excuse me, undergraduate studies here at CSU. So you meet with them at least once a semester. Usually it's once or twice and there is different advisors for different majors. So for CBE students, or if you're CBE students with and are studying in the Honors Program, you have a separate advisor too. So it's very specific.

You meet with him twice and you basically go over like hey I need to take this class this class in this class last year like how are you doing? Do you want to look at different technical electives or anything like that? And they basically just help keep it organized. 'cause there is a lot of information process sometimes, so yeah, that's academic advising each. If you're doing a CBE and bio medical dual degree you will have a CBE advisor and a bio medical.

Advisor, I believe.

So yeah, they'll help you all with that, and we were going to talk just two more. I realize we probably put these out of order a little bit. We're going to talk just quickly about two different spaces in the engineering building itself that are great places to study. So if a non yeah if you want to talk about these would be great.

Top ways. So speaking about academic resources, it's kind of Richard their stuff Leo what and so we have a lot of studies faces scattered around throughout campus. The study space itself is within our engineering building and this one is actually called BC info because it's between the B wing and the Seawing, and so a lot of students typically come here because a lot of teaching assistants usually hold office hours here, and the great thing about these spaces is you are able to collaborate with their peers, but at the same time you just have like.

Whiteboards as well. So because as an engineer, oftentimes you do have to draw things out and just be able to visualize everything we can. Sometimes just writing it on paper gets very messy and very overwhelming, so seeing everything laid out is definitely very helpful. Which is what these spaces help with. And then if we look at the next space that we have.

That is actually our Internet cafe, and so as you'll see, there's definitely a lot of collaboration areas here as well, but we also have computers over here, and these computers are similar to the computers that we have in the Scott Bio Engineering Building in that they also have all the software that you would need as an engineering student at CSU. Apart from that, there's also really great aerial view that you can have of the labs downstairs, and even though the labs downstairs are labs that civil, environmental and Mechanical Engineers use a lot of times.

If you're in here as a chemical and biological engineer and you have no idea what any of the other ones of engineering entail, it's often just cool to just like pure over the railing. See what they're doing and just get an idea of the other sorts of cool things that happen in the other engineering majors, and so definitely a really nice way to also just interact with your peers and get to know what the other engineering disciplines do as well. Because in the industry you will end up working with other engineers, not just people who've done your exact major.

Yeah, great. OK, I'll briefly talk about classrooms and kind of class sizes. Things like that. So like we already said before, a lot of the sort of general credits you have to take for engineering are those physics and general chemistry and organic chemistry for personal CB at least. So those are going to be your biggest classrooms, and they're going to look kinda like the pictures that you see up here. The biggest class I've ever had was my general chemistry one.

This is one of the first classes I took and I think it was like 180 kids. But like I said I went to office hours and things like that and you start to like really get to connect with them and so I definitely definitely didn't feel overwhelmed. The professors definitely go out of their way to make sure you have everything you need to succeed, but they do kind of put it on you. They're not going to force you to show up to recitation and things like that. It's more like a tear from. Take it if you want.

But yeah, so those first two years especially, you're going to have some generally bigger forces with more people, but as you continue on, those class sizes are slowly going to get smaller, either because people are changing out of the major or just generally.

The amount of people in the major decreases so bye.

Right, This is my third year now. My biggest lectures like 90 kids. So it's already been cut in half just by two years to study. But a lot of times like the labs and stuff that I have, organic chemistry labs is only like 12 people in there so.

It's a big college, but the people that you interact with within your major, especially CBE, you're going to see them from your first year to your last year, so that is kind of cool. It's like your own sort of community that you're going to interact with.

But yeah, we're going to talk now. A little bit bout, oh.

Actually our guys were going to talk a little bit about engineering, residential, learning, community and academic village for that all turned over to Ananya and this is just essentially where you could live freshman year.

Definitely. So both Connor and I did actually live in this learning community, or I guess Connor lived in academic village, but not necessarily in the learning community itself. So the engineering residential learning community encompasses academic village engineering and Edwards Hall, which is right across from the Engineering Hall and the whole point of it is that essentially you're living and learning with your peers, and so let's say you wake up in the middle of the night and there's an assignment you forgot to do, and you know that one of your neighbors is awake. You just need to walk down the Hall and knock on their door.

And also you have to support system and you can just work on all of your homework together and get it out of the way. So there's definitely a lot of resources available within these communities itself to help students succeed. And one of these are the spaces that we've actually shown in the pictures here. These two are from the 1st floor of engineering and so that leftmost picture is again some of the computers, and so we do have lab spaces on that floor of engineering as well. And again they have printers and all the computers with all the software that you need.

Often times a lot of clubs also do choose to hold meetings here just because there's a lot of study spaces within the engineering residence Hall itself, and they serve as really great mentoring spaces as well. Apart from that, we also do have academic village and I played tutoring sessions and so those are sessions that take place I believe from 5:00 to 7:00 every night and then sometimes go on until 10. If you have more general questions about math, physics, chemistry, things like that, but they take place five days a week from Sundays to Thursdays.

And they're really great ways to interact with a student who's taking the course that you need help with previously, and so there are sort of able to give you those tips and tricks that you wouldn't necessarily get just interacting with the professor or interacting with your peers who are taking the course at the same time as you are, and so you're truly able to find those tips that you need to be able to successfully complete the course. Other than that, it's just a really great way to understand what your engineering major entails as well, and get any sort of doubts cleared up apart from that.

We if we progress on to the next slide, we do also have really cool room spaces in our.

In these residence halls and so we have three different styles of rooms across campus which are community style, sweet style with the private bathroom and then suite style with the Jack and Jill bathroom and the differences between each is, let's say if you choose to live in Edwards Hall at retail, has a community style where you share your room, typically with a roommate, or if you're in a single room, you just be there on your own and the bathroom for that floor would be shared within everyone in that hallway versus if you were living in suite style you would have.

A bathroom in your room itself. And so if you have a Jack and Jill bathroom that's just shared between you and your neighbor. But I was fortunate enough to live in academic village engineering where I just had a private bathroom and so I had a lot of eight AM classes, and so it was really convenient to just wake up at the last minute. And just in the Nick of time to have enough time to just get ready and walk to class. And so that definitely made it very convenient. And they're very spacious rooms as well, which definitely made it very easy to just move around.

And as you can see, this is just another picture of some of the beds we have in there, and students have the option to loft these to any level they wish, and so that just makes it really convenient if you want to sort of have like 4th situation under your bed or you know, put speakers down there, anything like that, you can do whatever you want and their stuff. A lot of freedom and the dining Hall for these spaces right across in academic religion itself. And so I had a great experience. My first year living there, but I know Connor Domas really live in the engineering residence Hall, but.

Connor lived in the acting college honors also. Maybe he could speak a little bit more about that part.

Yeah, so the academic village honors Hall is 20 feet North of the engineering building. They're very close and in the Honors Hall. It's all suite style, so there's just me and my roommate. We shared one bathroom and I met a lot of great people here. I chose the Honors Hall instead of the engineering hogs. I wanted something that was like.

Real nice and quiet, but at the same time I could still interact with people that weren't engineers 'cause for some people sometimes you need a break from engineers and some people are the opposite. They loved to be around engineers all the time. It's really a person by person basis. But yeah, I was able to still even though I was in the Honors Hall, I could still walk over to that Engineering Hall and use all of the resources that were available to me there so.

Yeah, it was kind of the best of both worlds for me. And yeah with that I think we're going to go ahead and move to this final slide here. If you have any questions at all about CBE or about engineering in general or CSU in general, all you have to do is Google CSU engineering future students that will pop up with the link and you can book a one on one appointment with either an on your ananya or I.

Another virtual tour. If this one just wasn't enough for you. And then we also have webinars on Mondays and Fridays.

Mondays and Fridays that you can sign up for completely free and just talk to current students like myself. Anything else, and Anya.

Now I think you covered it. I would definitely say thank you for joining us for engineering exploration week. We hope it gave you a comprehensive view of everything that our majors have to entail an I hope this tour was helpful as well and if you do happen to have any questions, definitely email us at the engineering email. It's just explore at engr.colostate.edu and a Masters are constantly staffing it and so if you do have any questions about not just about seeing it but about any of the majors that you're interested in, or if you're contemplating between majors just.

Let us know and we'll be there to help, but with that, thank you for joining us and I think we can go ahead and sign off.

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