Connor Witt
12:56:48 PM
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Already we will go ahead and start off here. So kind of today we're going to talk about are the different engineering societies within the College of engineering. And so these people were going to introduce themselves. They're all part of different engineering societies within the College of engineering. Kind of going to tell you about them. We have a couple of questions that I'm going to answer them, but for those of you in the chat, there's a chat feature on the left of your screen here, so please feel free to drop any questions if you have them.
If not, I have some filler questions to get us going, but First off I do want to introduce myself. My name is Camille Milo. I am a fifth year setting, chemical and biological and biomedical engineering. My pronouns are she, her and hers. Some things that I'm involved in with the College of engineering. I don't know if this is like an engineering society within the College of engineering, but I'm part of ISP which is the International Society of pharmaceutical engineering. So let's do.
Let's have everyone introduce themselves. Let's do name majors, pronouns, and the engineering society that you are part of. And if you want to give us a little blurb on what that Engineering Society is, feel free to and we'll go in order on this slide that you see here. So Michelle, go ahead and kick us off, please.
Oh OK, her screen Wi-Fi might be going out.
Brenna do you wanna go next?
Yeah, I'd be happy to my name is Brenna. I am a civil engineering major. I am representing AST which is the American Society of Civil Engineers.
I think I forgot to say my pronouns, which are she, hers, hers, and my. The society is about creating professional connections and to give civil engineer, civil and occasionally environmental engineers an introduction to what it looks like in the professional workforce and to help create those connections with their other classmates.
Cool Ryan, do you want to go next?
Yeah, sure. So everyone. My name is Randy's. I'm a junior in Computer Engineering. My pronouns are, he, him, his, and I'm representing IEEE. Today IEEE stands for the Institute of electrical and electronics engineers, and basically we're all about is we host various electrical and Computer Engineering oriented events throughout the semester, and we're, you know, those can vary anywhere from.
Workshops to help students with specific skills or or tasks all the way up to career oriented opportunities and help people get ready for what it's like to be a, you know, electrical computer engineer in the workforce.
Thank you Madeleine. Are you on here? Nope, OK Miranda. Do you want to go next?
Yeah, I'm fine with that.
Alright, so my name is Miranda Prince. I'm actually a wildlife biology major, but previously I was in McCann sorry electrical and biomedical engineering and my pronouns. Are she, her, hers and I'm here along with Amy to represent Biomedical Engineering Society. So we have a 3 prong focus where we really try to provide academic professional opportunities and help not only to get jobs to but to succeed.
In your academic career and then we also really promote in put on social events for students can be quite difficult as an engineer, not only to find time, but to find your people. So we really try to provide that for about biomedical engineering students. So that's all we do.
Yeah, sure I everyone. My name is Amy Kiesling. I am a biomedical and mechanical engineering major. My pronouns are she, her, hers. I am also here representing BME S. Like Miranda said, we're just a student organization that promotes kind of the social, professional and academic connection among students interested in biomedical engineering.
For sharing, so one question that I have for each of you are, I know Miranda. You're saying that like there are bunch of events, but you will put on for students. So let's go down the same list and kind of talk about big events that you have for each of your student organization. So Brennick, you want to take us off?
Sure, so mostly our student organization holds events where professionals come and present to us. We recently had an event where we heard about steel detailing which was really interesting. They often introduce us to subject matter that we probably don't think about in our classes and help us recognize like where our future is in engineering, because often as.
Freshman through senior, we still don't really know what it looks like in the professional workforce and so we spend a lot of time learning about all these different opportunities for us future. And we also do.
We also learn have social events where we allow facilitate meeting of students in our major. So 'cause it's really hard to create academic study groups and to get to know your classmates and so it's an opportunity to do that.
Thank you Ryan. Would you like to go next?
Tripoli has a couple types couple different types of events that we hold. So the first are generally we do monthly meetings that are focused around either like this. This month we're doing a Python workshop to help.
And I'm especially freshman. Students get a little bit of Python experience and some really programming skills. We also do early circuit workshops or trainings and then outside of those monthly meetings we also do host a couple big events. The the most important one being in the spring we do a dumpster dive event where we bring in a bunch of broken electronics from the surplus store at at CSU and have people just build we host competition or people can build, you know kind of whatever they want.
Within a theme and then we give out prizes based on who you know some certain judging criteria and it's always a great time. So those are the main events we hold.
Sweet dumpster dive always is the greatest thing in college. I've done it once and my favorite honestly Miranda and Amy. I don't know how y'all wanna split BMS. But feel free to take them. Yes.
So I'll speak more to just are more general meeting, so we have those weekly and it interchanges between industry, academic or social events. Just recently we had trumeau BTC. One of their industry representatives speak with us are actually one of our sponsors which was really amazing to have. We also had a recent graduates panel, so we had graduates who who had graduated between one or two years ago.
Talk more intimately about what their job search process was like, what it's like now, especially working in Covid and just those general sort of themes like moving away from home. One of our panelists moved, you know, halfway across the country, so we also have a Minecraft server, so we have events where you know everyone hops on line and plays Minecraft, and then academically, you know we just, you know, we hold study sessions, which sometimes can really help students who are struggling a little nervous task professors about so.
And then I'll leave big events to Amy so.
Yeah, so I'll go ahead and add on to that. We have a couple major events that BME's holds every academic year. The first is biotech connect so this is an event that's like a career fair, but it is geared torwards biomedical engineering so we have a ton of biotech companies from all across the state and even across the country. Come and talk to students who are looking for jobs, internships, Co OPS or even just students looking to learn a little bit more about what industry opportunities there are.
Perfect thank you so much.
And so that we usually hold in the spring, usually during the same week as the engineer.
Michelle are we? Are we good to go? Can you hear us?
OK, I think she's still frozen.
That's OK, we will continue asking questions until we get her back online, but I also do want to ask kind of. Also going down the list. What is membership look like for each of you? Is that free for all students and kind of? What are the benefits of 1 joining the organization and two joining the organization while being a member? If that question makes sense.
Is free at the moment. We actually just changed those guidelines.
I've now forgotten the rest of the question. If you could repeat some of that.
Yeah, so like yeah like water like what are some membership benefits and like in order to join the student organization? Do you have to be a member of like the bigger like chapter of Colorado? And yeah.
Chapter so the ASU student chapter is free and we do fund raising to fund our events.
Biggest event I was hoping to leave us for Michelle is our conference every year and we take a certain number of students to participate, especially with our concrete canoe team and they go to conference and compete with.
Other people with other teams from other schools and the way they we help fund them to go, and a certain number of students get to participate with that, and so that's kind of our biggest membership Pro is being able to participate in that as well as going to all the different seminars and.
Introductions to engineering that we host.
I think that was everything.
Yeah, perfect answer Ryan. Go for it.
Yes, it's a great question about IEEE 'cause it's a little confusing and we get that question a lot so the wave membership so IEEE is a national organization and we're just a student branch of it, and so it's.
National IEEE does require, like a membership fee, but there's no membership fee to join. You know any of our meetings or any of our student events in any way. We are funded through both fund raising and regional groups that help keep us supported, so we don't require a fee for many students or anything. You're certainly welcome to join and attend our meetings and tender events for free.
The benefit to joining national IEEE is that you get access to a lot of Karere based opportunities, so there are meetings every month that they hold as well.
That have more career focus, you also get access to IEEE is sort of the the the place where technical articles and research papers are published in the electrical engineering field. So for academic oriented people it's it's kind of important to have a membership that we have access to the papers that are that you are interested in and need to read For your research. So I'd say the career opportunities and access to research articles.
Are two of the biggest benefits to joining the national IEEE organization.
Perfect yeah, I know a lot of societies that do that. Where like there's a bigger student organization. So always. Good question. Brenda Amy Yeah.
So, especially since we're generally we have in person meetings, but since we don't, our student fees are only $5 for a membership, so that includes not only a T shirt, but you get any of the events that we do put on that may have a cost of participating. We would cover for you. Generally you would see dues at 15 and $20 if they are in person, but that would include meals, so before.
Everybody got sent home and everything was put on line. We did bring in Canes or food like pizza and things like that for students. You do not need a national membership because we are part of the National BS and just as a student work. But SB me so the faculty version of bmis for Biomedical Engineering students. They do sponsor a BS national membership for the. For new members who are who are new and first time dues paying.
And they do that for one year for the 1st 20 people. So if you are interested in that that it is always something we can set up for you, as long as you're new and first time dues paying a lot of our funds come from fund raising. Otherwise now necessarily, we haven't been able to do that, but thankfully, a lot of costs aren't associated with being on line, so that's where we've been able to drop the deuce to $5 for at least this year.
Yeah, and I would just add that.
As if you become a member of the National Biomedical Engineering Society, you are able to go to the annual BME's meeting the annual conference, which is a really amazing opportunity. You can interact with industry members with representatives of graduate schools if that's something you might be interested in. Undergraduates and graduates go there and present their research, so it's a really great resource to kind of learn about bio Med engineering and network with people and.
Connor Witt
01:17:25 PM
If you want to have a more comprehensive review of all of the different societies, check out this link: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/clubs-organizations/
That membership fee is usually, I think, $20 a year or $40 a year.
It jumps around a little bit, but as a new due paying member BMPS covers that for you so.
Oh yeah, and yeah for me with a lot of this new organizations that I've joined, it's the same way where I just have to pay like $5 student fee. I think for ISP it's $9 and you get access to a lot of really cool like networking events and really get to talk to a really cool people, an asthma rhino saying there is food at almost every meeting, so that is always a good thing to do just because. Who doesn't love free food, especially as a college student?
One other thing I do want to talk to you about is. I know, at least for some of the situations that I'm part of, you can join even after you are a student, so does your specific engineering society have that opportunity to join as like a young professionals? Or yeah, outside of when you graduate for college? Or how can students perspective students kind of get involved into your society starting as a high school student? Let's switch it up. Let's do.
BM yes first and then will do Ryan and Brenna after.
So there's plenty of ways of getting involved. You know we have those that middle school event bow medical. I'm so sorry. I just lost my train of thought for a second, but As for perspective students, anytime that you want to sit down on one of our meetings, you can always email us. I believe that there's contact information available, but you can always find find us on line through the CSU website. For student orgs, you can always message us. We can send you a link for Microsoft Teams and really get involved or even send you.
The link for the Minecraft server, so you can really interact with students and talk with him and more of a relaxed setting. And of course people are always welcome. I don't necessarily think we've had any situation like that arise where we've addressed it, but we're definitely welcome to.
Two students joining whenever they they're interested, and then anyone who has graduated and it generally follows more along with the national BM S membership. So I don't think they really come. Come back to us because we are more for professional development and at that point when you graduated, generally you're able to get a job, so you're more of the national BMPS level. Amy, I don't know if you have anything to add to that.
Yeah, I mean, just to reiterate what you said Miranda, you can really become involved either with the CSU chapter of BME's or national BME S. At any point in your career if you're interested as a high school student, I think this semester and next semester is a great opportunity to sit into our meetings 'cause they're not physical meetings so you can TuneIn from anywhere. So if you're interested, we'd love to have you.
At any point in your college career, you know you don't have to join as a freshman. That's not your only chance to join. We've had people in their 4th fifth years of school join our society and get a ton out of it. So you know, if you're a little nervous to overload yourself your first semester and then you start to decide, you know second, third year that that's something you're interested in. You know, there's no hurry, we're open to anybody, even if you're not a biomedical engineering major. If you're just interested in biomedical engineering.
We're open to anybody and then after college, once you graduate. Typically, if you're interested in staying involved in the organization, like Miranda said, you would just get a national membership in maintain that national membership.
Cool, thank you Ryan. Would you like to go next?
Yeah, so so. My answer for you know for IEEE is very similar to what Damian Miranda went over. We haven't really run into having any high school students, you know, try to join in on meetings in the past, although we're obviously we're certainly open to people doing so again.
Like they mentioned are, I believe our contact information is posted somewhere. Emails on our website and stuff too so you know if you're interested. Feel free to feel free to send us an email. We would be happy to to to figure out a way for you to join.
As for, you know young professional society like a little bit after after college. I know that. So we you know, as a student organization, we don't really. We haven't really encountered that in the past, but the national IEEE does have a a specific branch or section oriented towards just young professionals and helping people within the first couple years of their career. So while we don't have anything specifically oriented to that national, IEEE definitely does.
Awesome, so AC is kind of set up the same way as all the other ones. We have a student membership and I do not know its availability to high school students, but I know that they are welcome to join in on any meeting of course.
We do so. Our national branch national membership is more associated with our branches which are associated with our area, so they see chapter CSU is associated with the is closely associated with the Noco Branch. So the Northern Colorado branch and there the professional professional chapter society part of the society. And within that there's a younger member group. But I believe the one in Colorado is.
Only associated with the Denver branch, so, but there is one usually associated with each at least one in a state, and there can be more depending on the size of your state.
Perfect, thank you. Yeah I just wanted to know kind of yeah like how it is post college 'cause I know for me at least when I joined ISP it was really great to have that community and I still want to keep that community after I graduate. So I just wondering what opportunities there are after college. I just want to put a little bit of a reminder. Please feel free to our perspective students please feel free to put any questions in the chat about engineering societies or you can even ask us about student experience. We'd love to answer any of your questions and I see.
That Connor has also put a link in there to kind of just see all of our clubs and organizations within the engineering college. I know within the whole University there are over 400 different clubs and organizations.
One more question I had for you are one of many questions. What is your student experience life like? How do you balance? You know obviously, being an engineering student with doing air being part of a student organization and like do you have? Are you able to put our be part of any positions? Like for me I'm the president of ISP, but I've worked up to that like I went from being a kind of a participant or a member of it. And then I went to becoming the secretary. And then I went to the president like how does that work?
I'm in terms of your student organizations, and let's do the same. The same thing. Let's do merande and Amy, and Ryan and Brenna.
So, um, I think I'll speak more to the being an engineering student and then Amy if you want to cover.
Officer progression, I guess if you want to just so we split it up well personally so for BM. Yes, anyone who joins that is actually a biomedical engineering major. You are going to have that dual degree program where you have it paired with something and that is very rigorous. It takes quite a bit of time. I'm so sorry if you end up hearing a Bell or anything like one of my cats wants me to play with him right now. So if you hear anything like that.
It is quite rigorous, but you find especially as a freshman. Your professors are really clear about how long a lot of assignments will take you, and they kind of give you a heads up on when you should really start working on them, and they're generally pretty good about giving extensions extensions as well, as long as you're up front with your needs. So if you're genuinely communicating with them and showing them hey, I'm really spending time on this, but I'm just having difficulty. I've gotten extensions before.
No problem, even without extenuating circumstances, and so really a lot of I would say even not just being yes, but a lot of the other engineering student works as well. Try to know what students schedules are like an in plan whenever their meetings are accordingly so that you don't end up having to run from your last class over to when the meeting is just so that you can make it or only make that last half hour. I really think we do try to.
Plan for that, especially with exams as well. So we actually changed when our weekly meetings were so people were able to attend and didn't have to miss it for exams or studying for them. So or labs that as well, yeah?
It's really just management.
Yeah, so I would just add that it's really especially for being yes and I'm sure this is true for all of the other engineering societies. You don't have to commit to being there every week for every meeting. Being part of a student organization is really for your own growth and for your own, you know academic, social, professional development so you get to choose how much you become involved. So on one end you can just choose to come to whichever meetings you find interesting.
Or if you're interested in student leadership positions, you know I came into being yes as a freshman and got off her position as a freshman because I was really interested in staying involved, and so I've kind of worked my way up. I'm vice president right now, and so you don't have to.
Commit to all of that. If you don't want to, but if you want to stay involved, that's a great way to do so. Is getting officer position and there are, I mean certainly vice president and president require a little bit more time, but if you want, you know we. I started as ECC representative, which is just kind of a liaison between the Engineering College Council and be MSN. That's a lower less time consuming role. So there are a lot of options and different ways to stay involved without.
You know, completely dedicating your life to an engineering society, and as Miranda said, it's really for your own development. You benefit a lot from being part of an engineering society, but we really trying to make it work around your engineering schedule because engineering majors are infamously busy constantly. So we really tried to work around that with you guys. I hope that answered the question.
Yeah, thank you. Yeah time management very big thing and it's something you will definitely learn here as an engineer within the College of engineering, right? Would you like to tell us about your engineering society?
Definitely I's so I've been in IEEE for for three years now. I started when I was a freshman and so I can first. I'll speak on on like how are officer roles kind of work and then coming up in the organization. So like I started off just helping out, I think I managed the website and things like the Webmaster and then I started going to. I was the liaison to a regional group for a little while and then this year I I was looking at his president so you.
You can, you know, start in, as Amy said, it's very similar IEEE you can. You can start in a less time consuming Roland and work up if you if you have more time and one thing that's really fun that I that we like to do every year, that is actually the way I was brought in. As we do, we hold shadowing positions for officers, so we, you know, have a set of officers every year. But then in the spring we bring in some people who we think might be good candidates to take that role over in the future.
And then we work with them to just get to give them a good idea of what it's like to be an officer and how much time commitment is, and we can pass off, you know, a task here or there to them, and so that's a great way of helping out. You know, younger students get a good idea of how much time they'll need to put in because you know, like, like, we've all said, you know we time management is incredibly important in engineering and it's and it's really good to, we don't. We don't want to put anyone in a situation where.
You know they they are having to decide between working on on IEEE stuff for working on their schoolwork, because obviously the school work comes first every time, so you know, we think that's really important. That's kind of how we kind of how we run our our stuff. We we tend to schedule our events, sort of like, I believe Miranda and Annie were talking bout. We schedule our events around ECE classes and exams. So what we do is we reach out to professors at the beginning of the semester and get a good idea of when they're holding exams and when they're holding their classes and labs.
That way we can make sure we plan our events effectively and because it helps maximize attendance for events.
And it helps ensure that students don't have to decide whether they're going to do you know, school work, or work for our student organizations. So I hope that answered all aspects of the question. If there's something I forgot, just I can talk a little more, but.
Yeah no, that answered the question really well and I'm glad that a lot of student organizations. Yeah, take take into accounts. You know classes and we really try to schedule things outside of that normal class time. So usually like you won't have anything before like 9. You won't have like a thing before 9 or 8 or whatever and usually a lot of my meetings are going to be, you know, past five o'clock 6:00 o'clock. So really kind of later in the night so that you can attend your classes and kind of have that student life for a little bit.
Brenneke would you like to tell us about your your organization too?
Sure. So like everyone else, we definitely take into account like when classes are. When professors are giving exams 'cause there are a lot of evening exams, but you get a good idea of when they're going to be happening during the week and you make sure not to schedule during those times in the evenings.
As for officer positions, so I have two sort of stories. So Michelle, our president, who unfortunately has tried to join us multiple times. She started out as a freshman joined as our freshman liaison and then worked up through a conference Oregon Conference organization position to president. So she took a very traditional route. She started out as a general member and worked her way through. I personally, kind of.
Miguel Rosales Tejada
01:33:02 PM
For programmers, is there a certain coding language needed? Or are a variety of languages learned/used?
I wasn't a member and immediately jumped into being our membership chair, so that was a really interesting transition because I was also learning about the organization, but it's how I really got involved. It definitely kept me in the organization and I really loved it, so it's been a great opportunity. And then.
Then I went into the vice presidency. So kind of left in head first for my position and Michelle then took our more traditional route all the way through building up. So it's really up to you how you want to spend your time in the organization and how much time you're willing to commit, because we really only do one general meeting per month, and then that's the one that you want to meet, because that's when we hold their seminars. But the other events.
Are scattered throughout the year pending on how we can schedule them because it is a struggle at times.
Yeah, and obviously congratulations on all of your you know student organization positions like we have president, we have vice president. Very cool, very cool. So we have one question here in here for the chat.
This might go Twords Ryan a little bit more, but feel free. Anyone to kind of answer this question for programmers. Is there a certain coding language needed, or are a variety of languages learned an used?
Yeah, so I'm. I'm not entirely sure like what Miguel what you're like necessarily referring to. If it's like classes or if it's like IEEE specifically, so I'll answer both parts just to be sure. And if I if I if I miss anything just ask away. Happy to answer anything else to four so within.
Do you see Department? At least you don't really need.
Any pro experience that going in you learn over the course of my classes, so we've used matlab here and there and then if your computer engineering you'll you'll learn a bit of Verilog too, but for the most part there isn't a ton of programming involved in the core ECE classes. Most of that is if you're a computer engineering student like I am, then you take out a lot of computer science classes and so you'll you'll learn you'll go through programming classes there.
If that is your route, then the some of the other languages you'll learn is you start off with Java and then you do a class that is Python based. You don't necessarily learn Python a ton, but you do. You do? Go through it a little bit and then you also take C++ and then as you get into higher higher level classes you can take a whole variety of whatever you want. But As for certain programming languages needed, I would say you know.
If a class needs you to know a language for the most part, you will be either trained on it in the class or another class training you for it is a prerequisite for that class, so I wouldn't. I wouldn't stress too much about it. If you're looking ahead. If you want, you know to get started a bit, I would definitely recommend Python or Matlab just because they are pretty applicable and you can use them to solve problems, even if they.
Aren't specifically you know? If they aren't asking for.
Solve this using Python or solve this using Matlab. You can still use them to help with your homework, or solve a long problems for you, so those are good things to know. Let me know if I didn't answer your question specifically or if there's anything else you think you want me to touch on.
I also have a little bit to add if you're ever little anxious on what your course schedule may look like, or what type of courses you'll have to take a lot of major so whether you're going into programming or engineering specifically, it's very mapped out and so your first year you may have a couple of options, but they in general have it very strict on what you can take, and so you can look even past that first year of what their general course recommendations are that you take every year.
And so if you want to get ahead, you can look through those and see kind of what. At least for engineering I know for electrical engineering I think they have the in and out sheets where they show what you are expected to know going into the course and leaving the course what you're expected to have learned. And so I think that that definitely can leave. Maybe some anxiety or stress that you're feeling if you're just not sure if you should be overly prepared for anyone certain type, of course so.
Yeah, I don't know if that's spirit might add that.
Yeah, no, thank you for that. Yeah, that's exactly right. There are a bunch of planar studies online in which if you literally just look up like electrical engineering CSU, it'll show you exactly the classes that you're going to be taking. Some of the Leeways in there will be kind of to be able to move classes around, but usually the way that classes work in engineering is that one class is a prereq for another, so there's a very sequential way of taking classes and yet like not only just for electrical and computer engineering or the ECT Department.
Connor Witt
01:38:27 PM
Miguel, thanks for the question! Like Ryan and Miranda said, you are not required to have any coding experience to be admitted here to CSU Engineering. Depending on your major, you will be taught what you need to know for the course. If you want to get ahead, take a look at the courses for your major and see if there is a language you need. What major are you interested in?
I'm kind of everywhere across all disciplines you will. You don't have to come to college with a knowledge of like learning how to code or learning how to use a certain program for chemical and biological engineers we use a lot of Matlab and so.
We are able to use or we have a class called math or CV 160 in which you are going to learn about the in's and outs of Matlab and then you take a class later on and once you learn more about how you can essentially do calc 3 on Matlab, which I wish I knew before I took Calc three. So all great things that you can do. And yeah, you don't have to come into college with a certain knowledge of coding. Anyone else want to add to that.
Ah, I can add that, at least in civil engineering we the program we use most of all above anything else, is Excel and having.
If you do want to get ahead, the best thing you can do for Yourself is to just sort of have a basic understanding of Excel, because you will use it all the time in everything. So if you have the time to just take like an hour or two to look through it at the beginning of your classes as you're starting to learn that it can be a huge help because.
I swear I can't do a homework without it anymore.
Yeah, I agree. Even as a CBE we kind of use Excel and I was like Oh no, I haven't used Excel and so long now since my first year and I use it my 4th year and I said Oh but you can do all these things with Excel that you don't even know.
Another question I have for y'all y'all are saying that you are part of kind of the National Chapter. What is that kind of student chapter to industry connection like? Do you have people come and talk at your meetings? You guys are talking about like conferences? You want to elaborate on some of those conferences. But yeah, just tell us about like opportunities that students are able to have. Whether it's internships Co OPS, whether you've had an internship or Co op.
Yeah, there's a lot anyone question, but let's go the other way again. So Brenda, Ryan, Miranda and Amy.
Miguel Rosales Tejada
01:40:40 PM
Thank you! Very helpful!!
Miguel Rosales Tejada
01:40:41 PM
I am interested in ECE
Miguel Rosales Tejada
01:40:41 PM
Computer Engineering
Alright, so our conference is just a quick overview. We have a concrete canoe team which is we design A concrete canoe. They do float to buy a senior design team each year. So a group of seniors designs of canoe and they take it to conference to race. It's kind of our biggest event on.
Of the year because it is kind of crazy and like you don't really believe it until that can do is in the water and floating and it can go really poorly too.
But the other things we do is there is charity events and we traveled to different schools in our conference where the Rocky Mountain National Conference, I believe, Rocky Mountain Regional Conference at the right word.
Drive there normally and are able to participate in. We do different building events. There's it changes a little bit every year, so there's like a mystery design that's presented. There's a.
Are they just changed it? I'm so sorry so I'm struggling to remember that he's called her Big Sky.
They are trying to introduce more steel design type in events into it and so a group of students can design and compete with other schools with that design type.
They they have our FPS which tell them how it like the different requirements for it.
Then we also, oh, goodness I keep forgetting what questions the rest of the question is. If you don't mind repeating it real quick, there was the conference part and then the rest.
Yeah, just kind of what is that connection with industry and student chapter and what are the opportunities that you can get in terms of Co OPS and eclipse?
Camille Milo
01:42:53 PM
Hi Miguel! Great to hear. Here is a plan of study for ECE: https://catalog.colostate.edu/general-catalog/colleges/engineering/electrical-computer/
So a lot of the people who come to present are looking for interns. It's a great way to put your face in front of these people when they come to our. When it comes presenters, they really love talking to you and trying to help you understand that transition. The younger member group through Denver branch is really involved. There are constantly reaching out trying to introduce you to people who will be looking at giving you internships over the summer.
Camille Milo
01:43:05 PM
also here is the ECE website: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ece/
And even during the year, and they will be all over the country is especially in Colorado, since those are our physical connections. But they are always looking for new students to be apart of their practice or to learn.
Connor Witt
01:43:30 PM
Great! I am sure that Ryan can help you out with what coding you'll end up learning. Also, here are some helpful links for computer engineering here at CSU: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ece/pdfs/current_students/ce_curriculum_check_sheet.pdf https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ece/pdfs/current_students/ce_curriculum_guide.pdf and https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ece/pdfs/current_students/ce_technical_electives.pdf
And so that's our biggest connection I guess. Is having him out to present and there are opportunities to connect through Nocco branch as well. So are our local branches.
Most every school within a C student chapter will have a connection like that, so it doesn't matter which school you go to, you'll be able to find that.
Perfect yeah, thank you Ryan. Would like to go next.
Connor Witt
01:43:50 PM
And here is the home page for ECE: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ece/current_students/undergraduates.php
Yeah, so IEEE. I know the national organization does have some conferences, but typically we haven't. We haven't historically participated in them necessarily that something you know that's kind of an RR.
Our road map for stuff we'd like to do in the future, but haven't gotten around to planning, organizing yet. Especially with the pandemic.
But to speak to some of the career events and opportunities we hold and we try to influence on is we, do we do bring in?
Quite a few like industry member speakers who can talk about different career opportunities or career readiness tactics. We like to help students out with, you know resumes and getting prepared for the career fair. One big thing that the Department of the EC Department has CSU is the ER program. It stands for engineers and residents. It's where we have a set of like 50 or 60 engineers in electrical.
Janie ring and computer engineering around Fort Collins in the surrounding area. Who come to CSU every so often and help out students various projects so they're very involved with the senior design projects and they also love to help out with career opportunity. Encourage writing this stuff so we're always, you know.
Having those guys come out and talk and help students and get ready.
Like I talked about a little bit before, IEEE does have the young professional society as well to to provide even more support for from that transition from.
Student tutor, professional life and then in regards to internships specifically or Co op. So I yeah I've had a couple internships so and so if some of the other officers so we like to help prepare younger members for you know.
What tactics we would suggest to to prepare yourself best for applying and hopefully getting internships or work opportunities. So yeah, we're always ready to help people with that, and I think that's one of our one of the big things we focus on each semester.
Cool, thank you. Yeah having that industry kind of input is super helpful, especially in things like senior design or just understanding how the industry is so I know. Yeah, yeah, our engineering engineers and residents. That's like kind of the best thing with electrical. Not the best thing one of the best things from electrical and Computer Engineering. Miranda Amy. Go for it.
Alright, so I think we mentioned before within our weekly meetings. We do have industry members that come and visit like the other panelists have said. Really they are looking for other internships or people. They are even open to shadowing. So maybe if you can't make the time commitment for a summer, you could shadow them for a week or or something, but when they do come to present, we always talk to them about what opportunities they can tell our students about an they always hang back.
After the meetings so that you can have more one on one time with them. If you are interested in hearing more about what they have avail available, anan generally anyone that comes from industry is always handing out cards or their contact information, and they're always willing to make connections with you on LinkedIn. And so I think that's a really, really big thing for students. It's a more intimate setting an you know for those you know, sometimes even myself, you know you have to deal with a little bit of anxiety. So instead of that, maybe our biotech connect, which is a bigger event.
And these these weekly meetings are again, like I said, a little more intimate, and so I'll leave Amy to the rest of it, but.
Yeah, and I think well, first of all I'll talk a little bit about the conference. I mentioned it earlier, but.
Ryan Guidice
01:47:51 PM
Miguel, please feel free to reach out to us at IEEE if you have any other questions or want to drop into a meeting sometime! ieee.colostate@gmail.com
Usually the officer team of BME S and then members were interested in going will fly to wherever the meeting is. The conference is the this year's conference was in October. It was supposed to be in San Diego, but it was completely virtual this semester. But like I said, there's a lot of academic work shopping. They have a lot of research, presentations and stuff like that, but there's also a ton of networking opportunities in tabling events where you can just go around and talk to a bunch of different.
You know biotech companies in bio Med companies who are either just sharing what their company does or actively looking for employees or interns. So that's a really great opportunity, but just within our CSU chapter we do have those industry meetings and our treasure actually got a coop with one of our industry representatives who came in the spring. Just went up to him, talk to him said hey, I'm really interested in the work that you guys are doing and then.
Over the summer, he hopped on their team and so there's a lot of really great opportunities, and even if the industry members are saying, well, we're not really hiring right now, just getting their name. They have Contacts and other companies in other divisions and their company, so it's really just, you know, meeting these people, getting your name in your face in their heads and building that network. That's really valuable.
Thank you yeah and that speaks volumes and not just only within. You know not only with the engineering societies, but just in general as your approach to go through the College of engineering. Yeah, go to the career events, go to the career fair really get your name out there and usually what's really cool is that they have the same recruiters and so you really make that connection with them and send those follow up emails and keep them in the loop and all those things to really build that networking web. But I see that we're going.
They're coming down here on time, so I have one last question to ask. Each of you and not just kind of like what is your advice for perspective students or first year students coming in in terms of like joining societies. And do they join many societies or they join like little societies? Like what do you? What are your? What's your advice? And let's do Brenda Ryan, Miranda, Amy?
I guess my biggest piece of advice is just show up. That's always like the most important thing, it applies to classes. It applies to events, it applies to joining society. It's literally just show up even if you're not super involved or like you just can't exert the mental energy for it. Sometimes it's just being there and just absorbing you don't have to ask questions you don't have to push yourself, you just have to be there, otherwise you get.
It's just not even a chance. So if you're there then.
You might overcome that barrier, so I highly recommend just just showing up so.
Yeah, that is great advice. Show up shelter classes show up to these meetings. Yeah, just show up honestly Brian. Weather advice.
So I know this is. This is especially important and increasingly difficult in, you know, pandemic times, but the biggest piece of advice I can give is just find your community, whether that be through engineering societies or or just through your classes. You know I.
We all know engineering is really difficult. We all know it's very hard. It takes a long time and you know there are days where you know it's it's very challenging and so having community a group of a good group of friends to bounce ideas off of and and you know, pick each other up when when classes are there. Most difficulties is always, you know is, I think is the most important thing to have.
And so, whether that's you know, getting involved in, I personally think IEEE is a great way to do that, but whether you know even even if it's not that and just you know, seeking out classmates and reaching out to them for help or building study groups, and I feel like that's just the most important thing for for success. And you know, in the College of engineering.
Yeah, that's that's great advice.
Yeah, so I've spoken actually pretty extensively on this. My pretty mainstream advice, I'd say, is.
There's a lot of expose for Student Orgs. I think you know one of these is you're doing the right thing. By attending this even, but see find everything. There's even a list on line. I believe of all of them that CSU provides, but even if it's not necessarily a professional development student org, find as many as you can that you're interested in. Look at what your schedule is, see which ones you can go to. Start up by maybe spending a week going to all the ones you're interested in, and then really whittle it down to maybe.
You know one to three that you're actually interested in, and an feel like you connect with the people that are in that student Oregon, and they can provide you with the most amount of resources or whatever you want to get out of that student Org and really feel out your options. I think, especially when you're a freshman, and I think like Ryan spoke to a community an these this is a great way to do that an I'm actually a part of a knitting suiting or student org.
And so even there you connect with people from different majors and you never know where you might find the job. So even if it's a way to relax, I think I said before but just start broad and narrow it down.
Yeah, that's great, but it kinda just.
Do everything and kind of see where your interest lying. I have to ask about that knitting student organizations. That's really interesting.
Yes, and it's of the round table and we actually knit and then donate what we needed, which is pretty cool so.
And Amy will end up with you here.
Michelle Vang
01:54:04 PM
Hi Michelle here! I apologize for not being able to connect! I would say my advice is to not be scared to say hi and make friends with the people around you. Upperclassmen may seem scary, but they’ll be the best people you’ll ever meet. It may seem intimidating to join a Society/Club when you first join college, but I’ve realized that joining during my freshman year was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. As everyone has said, making those connections is definitely one of the most beneficial things you can do in engineering, you generally find people that will stay as your closest friends in these environments. They will help you through your classes and give you advice that you couldn’t get otherwise :)
Yeah, so I think those are all really great pieces of advice. I think what I would add is just never hesitate to reach out and talk to people I know as a freshman I was terrified of talking to people. I'm still a little terrified of talking to people, but I think the main thing to keep in mind is.
Connor Witt
01:54:24 PM
Thanks Michelle!
That people like the worst they can say is no or I'm sorry I don't have time to talk to you, but here's someone else you can talk to, and even you know, I think of that more in terms of reaching out to industry members, talking to them about what opportunities they have. But I think especially for freshmen, student Orgs, or a great way to start off with that kind of networking. Because you're just talking to your older peers, I think I remember my freshman year I went to the first BMES event and I talked to the current president at the time.
Jackie and she just told me she told me all kinds of things that I had never thought about coming into college and she one of the things she said is get involved in a research lab. If that's something you're interested in. And so I did, and I adore it and I really love the work that I'm in. And so there's just so much you can gain from just talking to people. Even you know, in this age of Kovid, even if it's not face to face, just sending them an email and saying, hey, I'd really love to chat with you a bit, set up a time to call or just you know, exchange via email I think.
A lot can come from just, you know, putting yourself out there and it's scary, but it pays off.
Miranda Prince
01:55:32 PM
Anyone interested in connecting with us at BMES please contact us at bmes@colostate.edu! We'd love to hear from you and if anyone has any more questions, we'd love to answer them!
Yeah, that's like all great advice. Yeah, don't be afraid to ask questions. Really flying your community, so yeah, so thank you so much to all our student panelists. Ya'll did. Amazing so there. Good job. I see. Yeah, I see that Miranda and Ryan have dropped their student organization emails an there's like a little blurb there from Michelle. Don't worry about it. I know this online platform is a little bit of a struggle, but yeah, thank you so much to all of you and to all of you who joined and ask questions.
If you have any more questions, email all of these emails or email our student bassador email which I will drop here in a little bit. But yeah, thank you so much and go ramps.
Thank you for having us have a good weekend.
Thank you, yeah, thank you.