Engineering Live Virtual Tour

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Cool, awesome. So while we kind of just wait for everyone to get situated, I'm just going to hold on. The two are just for a couple minutes more as we wait for more people to show up.

My name is Kaylee Ann. I'm joined with Sarah today and we're going to be giving you the generals who are of engineering reminder that this afternoon there will be more tours of Engineering specific things. So today we won't will ask for your majors of interest, but for the most part it will be covering all majors in the College of engineering very briefly, whereas this afternoon will be a specific major in the College of engineering, very in depth.

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I hope all of your days have been going well. I know on our side it's been a little busy, little hectic.

But yeah, so while we wait, if you would like to use the chat feature just to let us know a couple things that you're interested in, whether it be a major or talking about like the engineering residence Hall, a couple things along those lines, then we can make sure that definitely cover them while we're on the tour.

So yeah, feel free to use that chat feature feature. It's on the left side.

And me and Sarah will kind of go back and forth and take turns kind of talking about everything.

Yeah, but if you guys are interested in a very specific major or all majors, that would be also also really great to know so that we can kind of tailor this virtual tour more towards yours interests.

But you know, if you're like, Oh, I don't know. I like all engineering things right now. That's totally fine. We can definitely touch on everything here as well.

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So should we make me kind of start with introductions and see if anyone else is going to hop on?

Yeah, yeah we can do that and then we can just get started as well.

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Oh Biomedical Engineering Sarah.

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OK, cool, well I'll start hello again, my name is Kaylee and I'm currently a fourth year studying computer engineering. My pronouns are she, her and hers. I hail from Honolulu, HI and a couple of other things I'm involved in on campus include being an ambassador for the College of engineering. I'm also the treasurer or the financial officer for the engineering, electrical and computer engineering outreach team, and I'm the president of Pacific Club, so I like to kind of Babylon.

Things both in the college and outside of the college.

Cool and my name is Sarah. I am a fourth year setting, biomedical and mechanical engineering. Here at CSU I pronounce she her hers. I am an out of state student as well. Actually I'm from California so that's a common pattern that you see. Let's see an I am heavily involved in our engineering ambassador team. Also Society of women engineers are kind of like the main two things that.

I'm involved in so super cool oh, we got another person yay, thank you for joining today.

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That's totally fine. Yeah, and I can kind of get started going to talk a little bit about cool, so let's kind of dive into this Tour. Welcome to campus. Our campus is really beautiful and we're really sad that you're not going to be able to come on campus to enjoy it. Also, a really quick side note is that these pictures, some of them, were taken before the whole pandemic kind of hit. So if you see pictures

with people who are like pretty close together, it was taken before this whole thing started. For the most part.

These are just a couple of pictures of our beautiful campus. The top picture is of the lagoon and also the Lory Student Center and the bottom picture is of our new.

Stadium football stadium which is really beautiful.

And awesome, so we're going to dive into the.

First, building an art stop. This is the Walter Scott Bio Engineering Building, so this is the newer building I like to say. Newer building newer majors. So in this building will really focus on biomedical engineering and chemical and biological engineering.

Yeah, it was built in I believe 2015 so it is definitely one of the newest buildings within the College of engineering.

Cool, how are you? How is your web browser Sarah?

It's it's doing Alright. Yeah, it's whatever I can deal, we're good.

Do you wanna start off then?

Yeah, I can definitely staff thanks Kylie. So for those of you who just joined us, it looks like a couple more people joined us. We're going to give just basically an overview of the College of engineering. If you want to drop in any specific majors that you're interested in, please feel free to drop him in the chat. If not, we will touch on everything, so don't worry about it. But if you guys have any questions, please answer them. Don't feel like you're interrupting 'cause you're not. We love to answer questions, but so we just started with the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering as a whole, but we are now entering the Walter Scott.

Bio Engineering Building basically so something that all of our engineering students can actually have access to is our student success center. So while the campus wide CSU has a general success center, what's really cool is that the College of engineering has their own success center. So basically it's all about working with students to help with their career development. We offer mock interviews, resume reviews, anything in terms of getting involved in research. We also help with that also for prospective students so.

If you know we didn't have a pandemic in life as normal, you guys would actually meet us here in this office and then we would take you on that or so our associate Dean 7 visors are also housed here, and also our diversity programs in engineering is also housed in this office, so really, anything that you need in terms of development throughout your entire time here at CSU is held in this office and it's just a really great resource for students with super cool about having our own specific engineering based karere offices, because I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of engineering resumes look a little bit different than other resumes, and that's been.

'cause you gotta display your technical but also communication and also leadership and all these other things. So there's a lot of guidance in a lot of different workshops that you can do that will help with that.

Moving on, so now we're kind of in upstairs and what's really cool is that all engineers have access to the engineering buildings 24/7 and access to.

OK, cool access to but called. Basically these design studios. So what's really cool is that we see if you have a very good relationship with Lockheed Martin they hire a lot of our graduate students so they actually donated these spaces too. So these spaces are full of thin clients and engineering computers, and they're basically modeled after how locking Martin has. Their space is set up so you can kind of see in the top picture they have kind of all personal workstations around the sides and then in.

In the middle they actually have a a whole table where everyone can turn around and then collaborate as a team and it really just helps show that in industry you're really working with the team and then also working on your side stuff as well. So it really helps that collaborative environment and that's something I really like as a biomedical and Mechanical Engineers. That mechanical engineering we have a lot in our curriculum of group based work and I think same with computer engineering. So it's really nice to be able to rent out these spaces and reserve these faces and then use them for your advantage.

We'll move on just a couple more study spaces. I do want to talk here a little bit more about computers, especially being a Mac user. I was really concerned with coming to campus and being like Oh my gosh, I'm going to buy a whole new computer for engineering things 'cause little known fact is Mac computers cannot download really anything that has to do with like design CAD or anything engineering. But you do not need to worry all of these computers that we have on campus. You can actually sign into with your engineering login and they have everything you need in terms of.

By being successful, doing your classes, homework, anything like that in terms of computer programs. What's also cool is that I can actually be back home in California like I was this past spring when the pandemic hit and still tap into these computers virtually in still use all of the software that we had, so that's another great idea. If you don't want to go out in the Blizzard anything like that, we have those here. We also have printers wherever we have computers, and that's really great because we get, I think 30 or 60.

Credits printing credits a semester. I have like $60.00 racked up in my account and I have not used it yet. 'cause Engineers we don't really print all that much so you definitely don't need to worry about buying your own printer ink. Anything like that. We have also these for you here on campus as well.

Cool, so I'll kind of talk about the water quality teaching lab and maybe chemical and biological engineering as just a reminder for the people who have joined us. If you would like to just kind of drop in what your majors of interest are is just so that we know what kind of focus a little bit more on, but kind of starting with the water quality teaching lab. So this is a first semester lab for students in.

In civil and environmental engineering, the water quality teaching lab is actually a really nice stop that I really like to talk about just because it kind of highlights our whole idea of project based hands-on learning, which is one of the reasons why we have you declare a major while being admitted to the college so that in your first year and in your very first semester we can have you in a lab with that kind of hands-on experience so that you can help supplement your lecture with your lab.

We like to say that typically it's about a 5050 split, so 50% of your time will be in a lecture and 50% of your time will be in the lab, which is really nice. This lab is actually really interesting, so in this first lab a fun fact is that.

Maybe in the late 1990s or so we had a flood on campus and we actually had to put in place that lagoon, which is this picture that I was showed here. It was. It's the top left corner picture and the lagoon was put in place to help mitigate any future ramifications we might have. If we have another flood. So what students do in this lab is they actually reverse engineer the history of the lagoon and the pond to figure out why it was put in that specific location and how it helps to mitigate. If we have a flood again.

Students will also take water quality samples from other areas in Northern Colorado, so looking at Horsetooth, another, larger bodies of water that are close to kind of the Fort Collins area. So this is really great. Introduction to kind of getting students involved getting out of the lab and kind of doing more hands-on work.

Awesome, so chemical and biological engineering is also a really unique program, so this is one major chemical and biological engineering an what you're actually doing is you students in this program get all of the material that they would have as a chemical engineer and as a biological engineer put together, which is actually really convenient.

So this is the first. This was the first ebet accredited program of its kind, which is really awesome. So that basically means that students in this program are learning all of the necessary materials that they need to know for the specific major in this picture, actually is really awesome, so this is.

A hemodialysis machine and in essence it kind of mimics the body in terms of blood flow and what students will do when they're in lab is. You'll see all of those tubes Anna professor can walk up and be like. I'm going to like maybe close this tube. And how does that affect the rest of your blood movement in your entire body? Kind of a thing, so that's a really awesome.

Machine that students get to use in this lab.

Besides that, chemical and biological engineering is a very vast field, right? And so we typically like to tell students who might be interested in like environmental engineering if they were interested in like pollution or fuels or anything that's not along the water. Quality water studies area to go into chemical and biological engineering because you can do a lot of the same materials and the same industry with that major students in that major can also go into cosmetics. They can go into the fermentation processes.

They can go into food process which is really cool in the top in the left pictures at the top and the bottom left pictures. Those are actually bioreactors, and one example of how a bioreactor could be used is for example in a pharmaceutical aspect. The bioreactor can mimic a stomach. So say you have an Advil. That's marketed to start working in 20 minutes and to last for four hours. You need the coding of the Advil to dissolve in your stomach.

Within 20 minutes so that it can start working with your body and you also need the actual active ingredients in that Advil to last in your body for four hours. So something that's really cool is the bioreactors will act like a stomach so that you can check different fluid levels or different acidity levels to see how that kind of works with the pharmaceutical aspect.

Cool, so we can move on to biomedical engineering, but I'll let the master speak about this one.

Master, that's funny.

So for those who just joined us, I am a fourth year studying biomedical and mechanical engineering, so I'm going to talk to you about a lab that I actually took last spring. So you take this in your third year as a biomedical slash. Anything actually. So I forget. You know, we have engineer exploration day as well, but just an overview of the bio medical engineering program you do biomedical engineering and you also have to choose partner major so you can do mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or chemical and biological engineering. And that is a five year program for two different majors.

Biomedical and then your partner, which is super cool and actually really like it because I can do a whole different lots of things. I've actually done internships with Caterpillar and then solar turbines so not even biomedical yet. But anyway, for this lab actually it's really cool because it combines all biomedical engineers from each three partner majors in one class. So basically it's all about teaching you from start to finish the engineering process and how to really solve and present your problems.

So actually one of the problems that we did in this lab was actually working with a real LS patient.

And we were able to communicate with him. Talk with him about his his disease, like what he needed for us. And really the task was designed in new in home communication and emergency alert system for him in case his caretakers are not right there because he's a software engineer, he works. He is a grown man like he is independent. But we need to help come up with a situation in a system that will allow him to be independent as that disease does progress because.

But for those of you who don't know, with a LS, you're basically nuro Jenner. It's a neurodegenerative disease, so you're like. Nerves cannot connect basically to your muscles and activate your muscles to move, and you basically lose function of your body overtime. So with that we were able to talk with him and develop a whole new different communication system for him. What's really great is that you are working with students of different partner majors, so especially on my team.

I had two Mechanical Engineers where we really worked on working with the patient. How his body moved, where we could put the sensors on his wheelchair while our electrical engineer actually program the entire thing, which blew my mind, but he understood it and then our chemical and biological engineer made sure that everything is waterproof, anything like that and just kind of helped write the report as well. So it really does depend you do about four to five different projects in this class, which is very kind of.

Uh, it's It's hard. It's a hard class and it's a little bit overwhelming, but you learn how to do time management work well with others, and really see that diversity really makes a team like work so well together. So these two pictures, the one on the bottom, is me actually on a civil board. Basically one of the projects is seeing if the *** fit our as seen on TV fit devices really actually help activate your abs instead of just doing playing crunches? Turns out they don't their scam. Don't buy them and then the one on the top left.

Now you just take it you, you're flying, go ahead.

Is one of our ambassadors actually working with an ECG machine which basically just measures your muscle contractions in terms of electricity and you can see a lot of different things, and we used those results to work on a prosthetic. Actually. So super cool, amazing experience if that sounds really cool to you, definitely do biomedical engineering and I can talk a little more about the partner majors once we go into the engineering building.

So let's see here. Next is manufacturing. So how do you want to do this? Kaylee, you want to introduce the building and then I can do manufacturing.

It's OK.

OK.

Who so kind of like highly mentioned? The bio engineering building, which is the big building that we just saw those labs in? That one is a newer building for newer majors. Here is are much older building but still a building very close to my heart in it basically houses a lot of Classrooms for mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and electrical and Computer Engineering. So this is like where the Magic happens in my mind. Just another review of the beautiful amazing building.

But down in the basement is where we have all The Dirty stuff. So one of the amazing hallmarks about mechanical engineering here at CSU is that you get hands on and they will push you into that. If you are scared, it doesn't matter, you're going to work on a lathe. You're going to work on a mill. You're going to saw something off, and that's something that I really appreciated. So in our manufacturing lab, you take this your sophomore year, and you actually get to build some amazing stuff. I keep forgetting to bring my Clock up here. It's downstairs right now, but one of the hallmarks of this class is basically.

In lecture you learn about all the different types of machining and manufacturing processes that you could do, and there's a ton. It's actually just the science of manufacturing itself, and those processes that you use to create product's is super, super interesting, and very broad.

But once you do lecture, you go and actually make things on these machines. I got to work with the lathe in terms of basically decreasing the diameter of around tool on a mill. You can Mail things out so you can basically drill out holes in whatever that you want. I also used a torch so if you guys like fire highly suggest mechanical engineering because basically when you add heat to material you can heat steel up to a point where it's material properties change so it will actually be stronger.

More brittle, anything like that. So super super interesting. You learn a lot about materials in this class and it really pushes you to just do time management. Face your fears. I was shaking the first time I stepped on a machine and now I'm like in there all the time. Other than this semester. But I was in there all the time last semester in the semester before that. It's just an amazing lab and you can actually use this and get a basically a pasta uses for your senior design, which we will talk later about, but basically to capstone project that you do at the end of your four or five years here at CSU.

So you get to use this lab for the rest of your time here at CSU, and they're just great skills.

You can take this one, Kylie, that's OK.

Oh, thank you um. OK, so the idea to product lab is also is kind of still located in that same like mechanical engineering wing, but it's open to all students in the College of engineering and it's basically a 3D printing lab. So what the basic premise of it is, you'll pay $25 fee per semester and as long as you take the workshop to kind of get you situated with safety and rules of the space, you'll have 24 hour access to this.

Lab, which is really awesome. This is also really cool picture. They're printing ahead or like A.

Chest up.

And what's really awesome about this is that.

Say you're in a senior design project and will kind of talk a little bit more about senior design.

Completely later, but if you're in a senior design project or any project and you want to build.

Let's say like a specific piece that's going to fit in a component, but you want to like build a prototype just to make sure that your sizing is right, and that it all works together. You can go to the 3D printing lab, build a demo just to see what it will actually feels like in your hand, and then once you confirm all of the sizing and things like that, then you can go into product into manufacturing it in like a more expensive material. Kind of an idea. So this is a really great option. Open to all students in the College of engineering, so I highly recommend that students join it.

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It I find that typically you'll see a lot of like mechanical electrical engineers in there, but I think nowadays now that students are kind of starting to see that it's open to all majors, a lot more students are getting more interested in it. Also, just because it's a good thing to put on your resume, regardless of if you think it applies to your major or not, it's always a good thing to kind of have in your belt of tricks.

Cool.

Materials lab.

Yeah, sure I can talk about this. Yeah, the following few slides that you'll see are still kind of within that mechanical engineering curriculum. So another class that you will take is all about materials and especially for biomedical and Mechanical Engineers. You will probably have a semester that's really focused on all materials and that is your 4th year for me right now, so I can tell you a whole lot about materials. An honestly, I'm kind of like my God can we do something else please? But what's really cool is that then you can kind of apply that theory.

Do a lot of your different classes that are in the same semester, so you kind of get it all done in one semester and that's kind of nice, but anyway, so a whole.

Kind of another way that we really add hands-on curriculum to engineering here at ISU is labs. So a lot of times with your engineering classes you'll have hands on labs that you will do probably two to three hours a week, one day, week. So in this lab you are basically looking at all the different types of materials, looking at how their material properties change depending on whether they were cooled to freezing temperatures, heat. It's a very, very high melting temperatures.

You're also just looking at the stress and strain curves of different materials. Everything like that. This lab is also used for instrumentation, which is another class that you will take, and that's really cool because it kind of teaches you. First of all, just like how to even use these instruments. What's really great about that is that all of our labs here at CSC will teach you a skill that you can put on your resume. Kind of like Kylie said, what's super cool about this lab is that it teaches you. I don't know if you anyone's ever heard of it, but it's called Labview.

And what's really great is that that's actually, I think, one of the reasons why my resume has Stan tested out to some certain employers is because I have Labview on my resume, which is basically a software that you can kind of program your own measurement, like experiment. So what's really cool about that is that we teach you the skills that you actually need an industry, and in that is in one of these labs as well, or multiple labs, at least for mechanical engineering as well.

Just in the picture, I'm going to skip through that cool. So mechatronics is like you'll do a lot of different hands on group work labs here at your time at CSC. If you are a mechanical engineer or an engineer in general, but one of the kind of final big groups, nested long projects that you will take before your senior design capstone in mechanical engineering is mechatronics and this is actually getting super common. You'll find this class kind of around a lot of more engineering related universities but we were one of the first.

And basically it's combining mechanical engineering theory in things like that with electrical engineering and shoving them together, and they're just telling all the Mechanical Engineers hey program this autonomous device. So what's really cool is that it allows you to be super creative. Really. The only design constraints for this project are it needs to be autonomous and it needs to move. That's basically it. Autonomous means that it can work on its own. It means you can press a button and it'll do what you wanted to do without you telling it.

So I'm super excited for this. You take this usually your 4th year as a biomedical and mechanical engineer and a 30 or as just a mechanical engineer. It's super cool. For example, a couple of years ago my friend was in this class in she may basically a camera that sat on this wire and you would turn it on if you walked around it or wherever you walked, it would follow you so it would move on the wire and it would also spend 3 inches 60 degrees to follow you, which is super cool. I can't even imagine how they did that, but I'm sure I could rise to the challenge once I'm in that.

So, um, just another great way to really, you know, learn some new, hands-on things, learn how to work with people, everything like that. So it's another great opportunity for that.

Cool, so the thermofluids lab. This is a lab for students either in the civil and environmental engineering program or the mechanical engineering program, an it kind of has a different application based on which major you are going into this class. Kind of an idea. So the whole concept is when you're in mechanical engineering. You want to have things that move right? So you do cars and robots, but when you're in civil engineering you want to make sure that what you build doesn't move.

So.

The whole premise of it could be for a civil engineer, say.

You build a building. What you'll do in this lab is I like to call it the elements lab because my dumb down version of this brain, my brain of it kind of likes views it like that. Basically in this lab there's a lot of different elements that you'll look at its application to your designs. So there's a wind tunnel. There's an open flow machine for water. There's some kind of open flow machine, but with oil there's a heat mass transfer. And So what you're doing is you're looking at, let's say, the wind tunnel. Specifically, if you're a civil engineer, you might build a building.

And test to see you how your building holds up to a certain level of wind. For example, just to make sure it doesn't get knocked over the mechanical engineering aspect of that could be, maybe you have a car that has to be aerodynamic and actually move with the wind so it's kind of looking at the same set of materials, so looking at all of these elements but in an application that is different depending on your major, that's kind of how I like to describe it. These are just a couple more pictures of the machines in this lab.

It's actually a really huge space. These machines, these machines are like so heavy and there are a lot of them an I hear that this is like from my fellow like civil and mechanical engineering friends. This is such an interesting class, but it is definitely one of the harder classes that they take. A fun fact is that this class specifically is ranked in the top five nationwide for the material that they're learning in this class, so you know that what you're learning right now is.

Probably one of the best in the nation.

This is just one more picture of that lab.

OK, cool, so we'll briefly kind of move over Civil Engineering, an electrical and computer engineering. Before we move on to the extracurriculars and the other needy, greedy stuffs. So the Smash Lab is for civil and engineering. And similarly to how the materials lab that Sarah was talking about four.

Mechanical engineering the Smash Lab is kind of the materials lab of civil engineering.

In a different sense, what you'll do in the Smash Lab is as it sounds, you get to smash a lot of different materials to kind of look for the tension and the breaking point of all these materials. So it actually stands for structures and materials. Lab that's what smash stands for. But the idea behind it is, let's say you have a piece of wood. You wanna see what it's normal tension breaking point is, and then you want to put it. Maybe you want to heat the wood up to see how that changes the material and then you want to freeze the wood to see how that changes the material as well.

In terms of the composition of the material, so that's kind of what they're doing in this lab, and they're playing with a lot of really fun devices. I hear that this lab is probably one of the best fun labs, civil and environmental engineering students. Take an I'm definitely jealous about it in like the last week lab, they actually give you an option to bring in whatever you want to smash, so people have brought in bowling balls and lamps before, so it's definitely a really awesome time.

Sarah, do you want to talk about electrical and computer engineering?

No OK.

So electrical and Computer Engineering is kind of a harder domain. I would say it's hard to explain exactly what it does. I'll try to be.

As definitive as possible, but also as general as possible so.

Let's start with the difference between electrical and Computer Engineering. So I like to kind of describe it on a spectrum. On one side, you'll have electrical engineering that really looks at hardware componentry, things like that, and on the other end you'll have computer science and that really looks at software algorithm writing performance. Things like that associated with telling the computer what to do.

And in the middle you have computer engineering.

When you look at kind of the curriculum of a computer engineering students, they basically take all of the same classes as electrical engineering students, but all of their extra classes for like sciencey classes are supplemented with the computer science classes. So for example, electrical engineering students have to take chemistry, whereas computer engineering students have to take computer science. Kind of a thing.

This lab is definitely not as showy as some of the other labs like the smash lab or the materials lab or the thermofluids lab, because a lot of what the students do actually is small enough to kind of hold.

In their backpacks or like keep and store in the lab space in itself an I do get a lot of kind of questions about the difference between maybe like electrical and mechanical engineering, and so one of my favorite topics to kind of talk about is a project that students will do in both mechanical and electrical. So in this class in my second year I had to build a line following device and basically the way that the line following device worked was students were given the body of a car.

So they were given like the wheels and the gears all kind of put together and they need to design the circuit in itself that senses the line and tells the car where to go and how to turn basically.

And the way that they did it was something with called a photoresistor, and that's basically resistance. That changes resistance of resistor. That changes resistance with light. So the more light or the less light, and so the line on the ground, is actually a black line. That's why most people who build line following devices will either have a white or black line on the ground. Similarly, mechanical engineering, and I think Sarah can kind of talk about this too. They are also given a task, maybe to design a line following robot, but reverse?

They're given the sensor already, and they need to implement the sensor in building the body of the car, right? So getting the gears and getting the wheels all situated so that it can run? So that's kind of like where the difference between electrical and mechanical are, and also where they meet in the middle, which is really cool.

Along this line we also kind of talk about senior design projects, so I'm currently senior and I'm currently on a senior design project, an very sad and very tired. Most of the time, 'cause it definitely takes up a lot of your time once you're in your senior year, 'cause it is a capstone project, senior design is required by all students in the College of engineering.

Um, but it's really awesome because a lot of senior design projects can actually be interdisciplinary, which means that on one team you might have students from all different majors in the College of engineering, and they actually might work with other colleges in the University. So a really good example of that is actually in the ECE Department, which stands for electrical and computer engineering in the ECE Department. There's something called the CSU Brewery team, and that actually works in partnership with Odell, Blue Moon and New Belgium.

To kind of automate their fermentation processes and So what? In that project there's electrical and computer engineering students because they have to Automate the process in itself. They work with the fermentation science students, and there's also chemical and biological students with the fermentation process in itself, and so you can kind of see how there's a lot of different parts to 1 project. This is actually really cool, so the picture that is on your screen is actually the MRI machine the MRI team.

In the ECE Department and basically typically the way that mris work is you get you lie down in your put into the machine and it rotates and it has this little clicking sound and it moves in. It scans your whole body. The idea behind the new MRI machine is that it will actually take a picture of your entire body at one time. So the coils. Obviously that's like a replica and it's scaled down version. But the coils of the MRI of the MRI machine will expand through the entire device.

And the way that the coils are situated and the way that the electromagnetic flux is kind of moved together is that it'll take a really high resolution picture in a lot less time and show a lot more detail. So that's kind of like what that senior design project is looking at.

Cool.

Do you want to talk about research a little bit, Sarah?

I definitely can. So another question that we get asked a lot is do engineers do research here on campus and how it uses that in my answer is heck yes they do, and it's actually not that hard. I would say I don't have a statistic for you in terms of how many people do research, but I've done research kindly. If you done research I think you have right now. OK kindly does allow other stuff and she does 2 senior design projects so she's on her own mission but a lot of people do do.

Research and you can in terms of like any type of engineering that you want so.

There is basically three kind of pathways and or strategies to get involved in research undergraduate research here at CSU. The most common one is really just saying, hey, that professor is doing some cool stuff. I'm going to email him and then we email them and usually we suggest you email three professors or three researchers who you've researched their stuff really are interested in what they're doing and then basically ask, hey, I really like your research. I want undergraduate student interested in this area specifically.

Are you willing to talk to me about your research and possibly me coming on as an unpaid intern or anything like that? So a lot of times they start off as unpaid. Maybe they'll go to paid positions later, but it's just really good experience for you to get in the lab. Get more hands-on, put that on your resume, and then also learn a lot of things that you probably won't learn in your curriculum and a lot of that is in terms of data Analytics. I don't know bout Kylie, but Mechanical Engineers we learn how to analyze data a lot in our labs.

But compared to research.

Not even the same level like research is basically all data analytics. So that's a really great skill that you could learn and you could also learn what you like and what you don't like. For instance, I actually took a paid position in was advanced materials and Composites Laboratory. It was really cool 'cause I got to work with like carbon fiber all the time. Carbon fiber is pretty awesome, but I stopped it after I think about 8 months 'cause like materials is not my thing. It's really cool but it's really hard and complicated and I wasn't really into that anymore. But it was great because that's actually how I.

I got my first job as of summer intern at CAD pillar. I was able to say hey I did this research and I learned this from it. I'm a great like hard worker. Please hire me and they did. So it's just a really great experience and we actually have a lot of ambassadors who are heavily involved in research here on campus and still love it. So it's just a really good opportunity. And if you are considering research honestly, you could do it for a semester. Then never do it again. Like me. You do not have to commit fully to it.

But it's it's a pretty awesome opportunity and that is very easy here at CSU.

I guess I didn't touch really on the other two pathways, so I'll just do that really quickly. We have sure in hers hers is the honors undergraduate research scholarship or like program. Something like that. And so, as honor students, you can get involved in research that way. And then we also have sure which is Scott undergraduate scholars.

I don't know what the E stands for, but as a Scott scholar and we can talk a little bit more about scholarships after as the Scots color you might get a little bit more guidance in terms of finding research position that would fit you best, and that's another great pathway that you can choose if you are a Scott scholar, but I'm not a Scott scholar or an honors and I gotta research top. So definitely do not stress about getting one if you are interested.

Cool, do you wanna talk about this car? You want me to?

You can talk about it for sure.

OK, cool and then you can talk about like classrooms anywhere else. So another you know thing that we want to address is that engineering is really hard. It's rough, it's not fun all the time. If you're passionate about it, it is so worth it. I love it, but it's a little rough sometimes. So to support that, CSU really works. Hard to make sure that you have all the resources you need to feel supported and to do well and succeed.

So a couple of these are academic advising and office hours.

I'm about Kylie, but I have never been taught by someone who was not a professor, so usually for engineering related courses an for other courses here at C. Assume you'll have a lecture, sometimes a lab, and sometimes a recitation to accompany that lecture and lab. What's really great about that is that the lecture is when you're taught by the professor, who is an expert in whatever they're teaching, and then you go to your labs and or recitation, which is basically like a mini lecture, kind of in those are taught by TAS. Usually these are graduate students or students who have excelled in the program already.

And they know what they're talking about. What's really great about that is that.

Wow, sometimes the lecturer can really like explain things. I can go to the TAS who are definitely more in my field in terms of age and or way of thinking and they can explain it to me in a way that I will understand it a lot better and that's how I got Electro through like electronic physics basically. So all professors are required to have office hours every single week. It is not scary, I have great.

What's it called? Basically, connections with my professors, and honestly, that is how I've succeeded in my time here at CSC, was connecting with them and going to their office hours so highly suggest it. They're very nice. We also have TA and graduate student and learning assistant office hours as well every single week for multiple engineering classes so you are not alone in this process. We also have tilt which is a universitywide basically teaching in the the Institute for learning and teaching. There it is that still.

What's really great is that that also hosts the calculus center where I lived my first year when I was doing calc 2, so we just have a lot of different resources for you to make sure that you do not fall behind or feel like you are unsupported. Also, what's really cool, especially I think, I think all engineers are required to meet with their academic advisor every single semester before they were even allowed to register for classes for next semester. What's really great about that is that it forces you to talk with your academic advisor and say, hey.

You know I'm doing this in these classes in your academic advisor might go. You forgot this class like.

The semester what are you doing like you need to take this class so it really just helps you make sure that you are staying on track and they can also help you if you want to study abroad, do research, get a job there just at least in my mind, they're just great life resources. We have amazing advisors here on campus, especially in bio Med. And it's just a great opportunity to get to know more people on campus.

I'm just do a quick little overview of is it loading for you? OK cool. OK so this is the BCN Phil I really like pointing out this study location is because this is where a lot of office hours are held for ECE. But also look how like all the desks can roll. It's super collaborative so if you want to work on your own, I've literally seen students grab a desk roll over to a corner and stare at a wall while I study. Or I see people working together like on the right so it's just a really great opportunity and there's a lot of these spaces in the engineering building.

This is an Internet cafe, super packed, but these just also have great study spaces and computers for engineers to use which have all the softwares like I mentioned on them.

Awesome, and so this is just a couple pictures of a classroom space and I'll try to go fairly quickly over the classrooms. On the ER else just so that we have time for any last minute questions and hopefully we can let you out early so you can get to your next session. But the classroom space on the left hand side is in the Scott Bio Engineering building, which is that first building that we were talking about and it's probably one of my favorite classrooms on campus. Specifically because the classroom is more long than it is wide.

So even know more wide than it is long.

And so even if you're sitting at the back of the classroom, you're actually not that far away from the professor at the front of the room, so it still feels like a really intimate class, comparatively, because the class in itself can hold over 200 students. So that's really nice, because it doesn't feel like it.

The classroom on the right hand side is actually in Clark.

It is worth noting just in general that all classes can be anywhere on campus. It's typically like your lab spaces and your office hours an other things specific to the College of engineering that will be in the engineering buildings, so I've had classes in the stadium before. Clark is a really common also common area for classes to be located.

So we will talk about the engineering residential learning community and then kind of be done. So if you were ever interested in living in the ER else or the engineering residential learning community, I like to kind of just call it the engineering residence Hall. This is a really great place. We have a specific residence Hall for students in the College of engineering. If they would like to live there. It's a really nice space on the 1st floor as a lot of these study spaces and collaborative spaces that we've seen echoed in a lot of different buildings.

So there's always going to be a computer lab on the bottom floor. There is more printers. They'll host tutoring sessions on the bottom of the floor, and the tutoring session is actually really nice because it's Sunday through Thursday, an every day of the week is a different major, so let's say electrical and Computer Engineering is on a Tuesday. It's really nice 'cause I've had professors who actually collaborate with when, what day of the week the tutoring session is. So when I was a first year, my my day was Wednesday and our homeworks were due Thursday.

Which is really nice.

Besides that, there's a lot more collaborative spaces like we see on the bottom picture, and it's a really convenient space. Students actually might even have a classroom on the bottom floor of the engineering residence Hall. I think that's specifically for like civil engineering students, so if you like, it's really convenient to just kind of hop out of bed and go downstairs.

Um?

Awesome, so this is just a kind of a picture of the rooms that you can expect in the residence Hall in the engineering specific residence Hall. This is what we like to call a private suite style so you and your roommate will share a bathroom and on the bottom picture the bathroom is on the right or on the left hand side. You can kind of see in the corner there's a doorknob, so that's kind of where the bathroom would be, and it's nice because from the door until the carpeted area every that'll get cleaned every other week for you.

And I can definitely say that these are probably the nicest residence halls on campus. I specifically didn't live in the engineering residence Hall 'cause I preferred to kind of separate my academic and personal life when I was a first year, and that was my personal preference, but I heard that a lot of students made long lasting friends in living in this residence Hall, and there was also really convenient to be able to like go on, knock on someone's door at like 2:00 AM in the morning. Be like I need help with this homework.

You want to like? Work through this together.

They are not in 'cause she lived there, so she do you have anything else you wanted to talk about in terms of living there?

I don't think so. I would just like to say that wherever you live, you will have access to all of the engineering resources, especially in the basement at this engineering residence Hall. We have also have another one in Edwards, which is right next door. But that is community style, so if you still want to be living with engineers, you can do either this private style or community style and the cost does change this little bit more expensive, so that is something to keep in mind. Additionally, Kylie did not live in an engineering residential learning community.

And as an engineer you can do that, so it's really personal preference.

That's just all I wanted to add.

Cool yeah, besides the private suite style and the all kind of talk about the two other living styles on campus. So Sarah talked about community style and that's kind of the more traditional residence Hall layout that's were likely. Entire floor shares one bathroom. So in that bathroom and it will be cleaned every day. That bathroom has three showers for toilets and five sinks, which is really nice. Kind of. I've never really had a problem with like all of the showers were used or all of the toilets reuse at one time.

Um?

And the other style of living is what we like to call, kind of like a Jack and Jill Suite style. So that's where your room and the room next to you share a connecting bathroom. The sinks will be there, each be a sink in your perspective room, but the bathroom. So like the toilet and the shower will be shared between you, your roommate and the room next to you. So those are like the three options for living on CSU.

Cool, I'm at just one last picture.

People that ram stuff woo.

Awesome so I will leave it up to y'all. Do you have any questions for us? Anything we want us to reiterate or kind of go more in depth to or any.

Comments, Yes Sarah.

I do want to just address address Nick's question about him being interested in aerospace engineering, so.

At CC we do not have an aerospace specific engineering major, but we've actually just kind of we already had an aerospace focus, but now it's like really, really formalized in aerospace engineering focus. So along with your senior year capstone project, your senior year as an engineering, you will also be taking technical electives. So for engineers who are really interested in aerospace, you will be usually the pathway is mechanical engineering and then your last year you'll take a capstone project and you can do rocket team.

Which is a where a lot of our aerospace engineers go to where you're designing a rocket and said national competition is pretty awesome, but Additionally you will take aerospace related classes like God like engines.

Rocketry, like all these you know, really technical classes that will help you kind of really narrow down your aerospace focus.

Like I said before, CSU has really great relationships with locking Martin, and we actually just had and one of our ambassadors graduating, and now she's working at NASA, so those opportunities are there for you as aerospace engineer here at CSU.

If that helps answer your question Nick.

Awesome, so it doesn't look like we have any questions and just to make sure that we kind of leave enough. Oh yes of course Nick. But just to make sure that we leave enough time so you guys can let get ready for your next call or anything like that. Sarah, do you have any last minute like comments or anything you want to say before we let them all go?

I don't think so. I hope this was informative. We should drop our email in the chat.

Yeah.

Thanks for coming guys gorams.