Tau Beta Pi Honor Society and Engineering College Council

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I'll introduce you guys as panelists and then I'll ask a question of just to introduce yourself and then we can go over each organization if you'd like it. And that's when you can share your screen.

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Cool, well, we're going to kick it off and just get started so we can end this and not go over anybody's time. But basically hi everyone, my name is Sarah, I am an engineering Buster and I will just be facilitating this meeting but we have here some great engineering societies within the College of engineering and we have Sebastian, Sydney and Jackson to basically tell you about Tau Beta Pi, an Engineering College Council which are just great opportunities to get more involved in the College of engineering.

I guess I'll go to this next slide, our panelists. So yes, that is who is here right now. Does everyone want to give just a brief overview of your name, your major, and what year you are? And what organization your position you are involved in?

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Alright, hi everyone, my name is Sebastian Lot and I am a biomedical engineering and chemical and biological engineering major at CSU. I am a software in the program and I am vice president of ECC and the ECC representative for BM. Yes and also a general member of Tabita Pie.

Hi everyone, my name is Sidney. I'm the outreach chair for Tau Beta Pi. I'm a senior studying chemical and biological engineering.

Awesome, thank you guys. Cool so we'll just really kick it off with some overview questions, just basic about each student Org. So will each nordisch Engineering Student Org so Jackson It sounds like you're pretty prepared so we can go first with Engineering College Council and let me know if you can't share your screen or anything.

Yeah, it's a really good overview. We also help student organizations with funding each semester, making sure that we allocate some money towards each student organization in different projects that they're trying to accomplish. Just making sure that each student organization has the news from the engineering college and making sure that they're connected and have that voice and representation in the engineering college.

Will come out. I'll ask each of you guys questions after we do an intro.

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Thanks Jackson, thanks Sebastian Sidney. Do you want to give a little bit more of a brief overview about Tau Beta ??

Yes, cool is the most selective engineering Honor Society at CSU, and it's also the only one open to all engineering majors. So how it works is you have to be a junior or senior by credits to be eligible to join the organization. I came in with transfer credits, a lot of students do, and so you may have the opportunity to join as like a freshman or sophomore in that case.

So what we do is we have a monthly meeting. I mean at the meeting we have food which is kind of exciting. And then there's also we have somebody come in and speak. Who's an engineer? So those guests have ranged in the past from like Naval Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Engineering Professors, our guest speaker for the next meeting is a woman who works at a biomedical engineering facility in Boulder. The speaker for the meeting after that is a captain in the space force, so we really.

Try to cover as much of the Engineering World as possible, and then we're one of the smaller organizations on campus. So in terms of like activities and stuff, a lot of what we do is more like networking at meetings. But we also have specific name tags for members of the career fair, which is kind of fun. And then you have the chance to go as a delegate to the regional and National Conventions and then we have leadership positions you could be involved in as well, and outreach in the past we've done.

Has been everything we've done, like textbook swaps for members. This year we're working on getting a presentation in the spring about how to get into grad school. We volunteered with little shop of physics, just kind of different science things around CSU and in the community.

Awesome, thanks seny, great will. Thank you again for you guys. Being here really appreciate it for those watching honor societies Engineering College Council is just a really great way to get involved. You can also meet like we've met. I've been actually involved in Engineering College Council before and we've developed a great relationship with our associate Dean, which is always a good relationship to have. So it just really gets you connected and you could just see kind of all the different areas of the College of engineering here at CSU. So that's also a really great thing to get involved in.

So I guess the question I have for all your panelists is really what motivated you to just even start getting involved on campus. An why is that such a great thing to get involved?

And we can start with whoever wants to go first.

I think one thing that made me want to get involved on campus. It's kinda funny 'cause I actually was like at first kind of nervous to go to CSU 'cause it felt like a big school and like there's going to be so many like people and I was just going to be overwhelmed. But once I got to campus, I realized that like big school equates to a lot of different opportunities.

And a lot of cool things. So I joined a lot of different clubs and organizations my freshman year, including Tau Beta Pi and I specifically like being involved in engineering like honor season clubs because there's so many like other engineers and I think being an engineer is a really like unique college experience. And so as much as it's nice to have people who are like English majors or anything like that that you're friends with. It's not other engineers that you can study with.

And then you'll have all your classes with. So I really enjoyed that aspect.

Yeah, I got initially got started with Engineering College Council on Tabe to pie and some other engineering organizations because I live off campus about 30 minutes away from CSU and I don't know how I'd be able to get through school like I have been without meeting the people that I have in the faculty and the industry members that come in and visit student organizations and engineering student organizations of CSU.

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Without you know, joining some of these organizations, I wouldn't have. You know, it would have been very hard for me as someone who lives off campus to really get involved with community, engagements and activities and organizations have been a really great way for me to meet new people and make those connections with.

Remembers students and faculty.

Awesome, thank you all. That was like really insightful. I really appreciated those answers. That was cool. So another question I want to ask is.

Basically.

How has being in a leadership position, especially within your societies?

Really developed your your yourself really like professionally and personally and how do you feel that that has impacted you going forward into your future karere. I know it's a loaded question but I feel like it's a really cool, you know.

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I think one thing for me is it's 'cause I'm outreach chair so I'm in charge of coordinating all of like different involvements and stuff around campus, and it's really encouraged me to like think outside the box and be creative because there's not a lot of things that like specifically around campus even before kovit that they were like we need. You know 10 to 12 Engineering Honor Society students to come help us with this and so it's a really cool way to be able to think outside the box and help with like little shop of physics, which puts on an open house.

Every year and help just with other causes around the community and be able to reach out to people and make meaningful connections and be able to like connect passions of like we're a group of people who are engineers passionate about engineering like how can we help you meet your goals in an hour each way?

Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you guys out. Those were great answers. I was think about like back then. You know when I first joined like all these student organizations. And then here now I feel like being especially part of leadership just makes this so much more confident. I think it's just a really great way to just grow yourself. So I'm going to ask one more question really about our engineering societies and then kind of go just more into your personal experiences here at see the College of engineering know Jackson you inside this little bit but.

What has been your favorite memory or event while participating in your respective student orgs?

I would say some of my favorite memories in both Engineering College Council and Biomedical Engineering Society and Tubby pie and all these great student organizations for engineers have been the volunteering opportunities that we can also get involved with.

For engineering, for ECC, I've done volunteering at the career fair and making sure that students get.

Registered and everything and can go up and meet the members of industry and kind of keep the flow of everything moving in the crew for which is a very fun opportunity, especially getting to know better the members of ECC. Also with Biomedical Engineering Society, being able to even just volunteer for football games and collect tickets at the door is another very fun opportunity to help meet members of the community and.

Other members of the M yes.

Another great one was BBSS, Bio Med Bootcamp, Which.

Teaches younger students from middle schools around the area about Biomedical Engineering, Society, and different biomedical engineering technologies that they can work hands-on and get more experience with.

Awesome cool city. Did you have anything to add to that?

Yeah, I agree with Sebastian. I really enjoyed a lot of the volunteering I've done. I think my favorite was volunteering at an elementary school for their like science night. We got to go in and help them build like paper airplanes and blow bubbles and it was just really cool to be able to like see Science in the eyes of a kid again.

That is so cute. I love that I think I don't know, at least in my opinion, 'cause I don't really deal with kids a lot. Seeing how they really like. Look at engineering problems is actually so insightful they're so smart. It's kind of amazing, so that is that is awesome. Thank you guys all for sharing. OK, cool. So now we're going to go into kind of your personal lives. That's alright I want to ask really, why did you each personally choose CSU and why have you stayed?

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OK, cool, I think we'll skip Jackson for now, and hopefully he'll get back to us. But if someone else wants to go and I will also text Jackson on the side and be like maybe you should try to reconnect so.

Cool, I can start. So I chose CSU. I'm an in state student and I chose CSU because it was the only place like I toured a lot of colleges or on Colorado and it was the only school that I liked to visit. But I could also see myself like staying at if that makes sense in a lot of the campuses I thought were so pretty and so cool, but just when it came down to like.

Having to find a place to like live for years, I couldn't really see myself taking classes or living anywhere else except as CSU in Fort Collins. So that's how kind of how I ended up here.

I would say I have a pretty similar experience besides also living of fairly close to CSU and having the option to live off campus my own housing.

BI also toured a couple of different colleges while I was looking and applying.

I went to mines and a couple other schools around Colorado and out of state, but CSU was definitely the campus that I thought was going to work best for me and also just the prettiest as well I thought.

And that proximity. That is a very useful thing in my life particularly.

For sure, thank you. Well let Jackson answer when he gets reconnected, but for now we'll move on to the next question. Can you basically describe a CSU student? I know it's a giant generalization, but what things in your personal life have you noticed that CSU students share in terms of like personal characteristics?

I'm also a member of different student organizations that are not even engineering related, just recreational student organizations, and I would say, CSU students definitely care for each other.

You know that if a student is having a problem or they need help with something other, students are generally there for them and can provide a lot of help and are willing to do so for.

Pretty much any student they meet.

I said kind of going off of that uncooperative of even in engineering, which has like a reputation you know is being cutthroat or competitive, or all of these things. That's not really how it is at CSU, and I've never met a classmate who hasn't been willing to explain something to me like 10 times if I'm really not understanding it. So I think it's great, and I really enjoy learning in a place where we all want the best for each other.

Yeah, I think that's awesome. That's definitely something I've experienced to everyone just has a common goal of helping each other, and I really appreciate that. Alright awesome. Let's see here.

Kind of talk about sense of community. What advice do you have for basically a first year starting out? Who does want to get involved but doesn't really know where to start?

I would say just go for it. It's easier to sort out things like second semester of your freshman here, or like your sophomore year to luck and be like OK. Which of these do I love? Which of these would I like to continue?

Versus being like a junior and being like oh like I don't have any involvements. I haven't made any friends.

My freshman year I joined the club field hockey teams. I've never played field hockey. It sounded kind of fun. I did it for a year. Really liked it then the club kind of buckled my sophomore year and I was like, OK, that was fun. Like thanks for the memories. But then I could go forth with ones that I really wanted to stick with.

Yeah, I mean I generally have to agree. Just you know, going right in there and saying hi. Introducing yourself to a bunch of different student organizations, anything you might find interesting or maybe even opportunities that you see and are just a little curious about. Generally you have to be the instigator in this situation. There are going to be some clubs which try to recruit.

New members and everything, and it's definitely a great opportunity if you are looking. If you're interested in that club or are looking into that club. But in general, yeah, just if you think something sounds interesting, go for it. Try to email or get into contact with those people or faculty or your professors. Even will have great suggestions for different ways you can get involved.

Yeah, I really love that advice. Thank you for saying that that's great advice. It's definitely how I just kind of just dive into it a little bit. And then from freshman you can kind of steer into what you're really interested in for the rest of your years. It looks like Jackson was so close to joining us. I don't. Can you guys see him? 'cause apparently I couldn't see him at one point. OK, cool.

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Let's see here.

Cool, what has been the largest experience or impact on you as a student here at CSU? And it doesn't need to be. You know, it can be your involvement in your organizations or it can be something entirely different.

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I think I would have to say that my involvement in student organizations has been the biggest impact for me since I actually do have a lot of these leadership roles, and I'd say that.

Actually, being a part of these leadership roles has been.

It's a huge change for me, especially with different responsibilities that you have to make sure. And it's you know, completely changed the way that I try to schedule my time and you know, different responsibilities that I have, but it's been really great for me to basically get that experience right now where I can have these responsibilities and make sure that everything gets done in a professional way.

Kind of a goofy one, but I also I'm a history major, just 'cause I really like history and for like the first three semesters I would tell people like, oh, I really like history like I would have majored in that if I could have done anything besides like.

He check, but I like wasn't taking history classes in one day. My advisor was like, you know, like you have the space to be taking history classes here like you have some from high school like minors. Probably a feasible option. So I started taking just like 1A Semester and then I took a couple over this summer in order to complete the major and not for me has been really impactful. Just realizing that like you can do more than one thing and like even though I love engineering, I don't have to be an engineer 24/7.

But I think that cross between them has given me a really interesting way to think about both like engineering and science and history. I think it's made me better at both of them, so I've really enjoyed that.

That's awesome, yeah, thank you.

Yeah.

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Thing OK, well, we'll keep continuing. I hope you can join us soon. We just see a black square for you right now, Jackson, but hopefully.

Maybe if you quit your browser Foley, I'm not quite sure, but hopefully we can get that sorted out for you soon. Let's see here.

What are you guys's future goals both in your I know y'all are both kind of close to finishing up, but both in your final years here at CSU and then beyond.

That's a really good question, so my like I've got a couple different ideas going on, but one thing I would really like to do is like a side gig is I would really like to write a book like a science like a history of science books, signs of history, like if any of you have read Erik Larson. That kind of book. I think those are very good.

But I also would have liked to teach in some capacity at like a Community College. I'm a huge chemistry nerd. I really love chemistry and I would love to be able to like teach that, especially to people who.

That maybe chemistry like is it for them, or that they're too stupid to understand it. 'cause I think it's just a different way of thinking, but I really love it. I could talk about chemistry along time, but I'll stop now. That's my those are my plans.

I'm not entirely sure right now what my plans are.

Like whether I should try to go into grad school or whether I should try to go get a job right away after school.

But it has been a really nice experience in some of these engineering societies that have been a part of to where I can get some feedback and hear from people who have great graduated recently and see how weather, like how grad school has been for them, their experiences there or going straight into industry and how to find a job. And all of those things. That's been very interesting and.

It's been great to hear from a lot of the even like local companies that I can go try to get an internship with or a job after school.

That is, the real question, isn't it grad school or industry plaguing everyone?

Well, cool, I'm glad you can see that you have both opportunities presented to you. It's pretty awesome.

Had another question, now I'm trying to remember it.

God, this is this is not good. Oh, I was going to say.

Have either of you been to more like one of the national conferences for your respective engineering societies, and if so, can you talk a little bit more about that experience? If not, that's OK.

OK.

I haven't. I was at the balloon Fiesta.

OK yeah OK, you have any other right Sebastian?

Yeah, I also have that.

OK, so that's OK cool, I guess I'll just talk about my experience right here. So what's really cool about both of these societies that they do have larger societies on a national level, so I was previously involved in Engineering College Council and actually two years ago now we actually were able to host the national conference here at CSU, which is a really awesome privilege. So we basically created this entire.

About weekend long event where all the societies, the engineering college counselor societies from a lot of different universities actually were able to come to CSU stay in the hotel near us and then just see like what kind of classes we take at CSU. The research that we are involved in things like that and it's really cool. Just kind of share experiences like through each engineering College Council from each University because then you kind of can see oh how big is that college while they have a lot of people like what are they doing right? What are they doing that we probably?

Could do better or what are we doing that we could help them with an it's really great to be able to share that insight with each other and it's actually a really fun event. I think it was. It was our bomb cyclone. For those of you who don't know the bomb cyclone is. It is basically.

A giant snowstorm where everything is cancelled and it is horrible. But that happened basically the weekend of that conference, but we were able to get mostly every University still here, and it was just a really awesome event. So these. Oh, thanks for the question, Katie. So yeah, just these national societies are just really great. 'cause then they can connect you with people who you know are within the University. But then outside as well so will address. Katy's question is the easy to balance these societies with classes and other activities.

If it is easy, how?

I think that's one of the things that like engineering has really given me that I'm grateful for. I'm is just an ability to manage my time in a way that, like I otherwise wouldn't be able to.

And so it definitely like, especially with everything being virtual this year. I've missed more than my fair share of meetings. I'm pretty sure I missed the training for this day, actually, so that's been a bummer. But Yes, it's really. You just have to be intentional about like how you're using your time and you can't fit everything into a day that you want to, and so you have to be able to look and say, like, what do I need to do for my like academic and involvement? Well being? What do I need to do for like my own like mental, spiritual, physical, well being like?

Where do I just need to run errands to do some laundry and be able to kind of evaluate all of that in a day?

I would say that it has definitely gotten easier for me as I've kind of gotten more into school and everything and had a few semesters.

I would say that.

Right now I have about 18 credit hours this semester. Hi Jackson.

Yes, yes we can hear you.

I have about 18 credit hours this semester, which is a pretty full schedule and I'm also still, you know, balancing them with my leadership roles and ECC and BS.

And I would say that now that I have these systems in place for myself to where I can schedule my time so that each day you know I know exactly what I need to do and I get it done.

Now it is easy for me, but at first you know it takes a little bit of time to see exactly how you might need to schedule out each task. You need to do every day.

But

I would say yeah, like just also making sure that you like Sidney was saying like have a break for yourself like just going and doing something. You might have some homework that you're working on, but if you just need some time to relax and make sure to do that for yourself, it's very helpful.

I saw some talking on mute, that's something I really appreciate you talking about fashion 'cause that is something that I think we really promote here at CSU is taking the time for yourself and finding that balance, which is really awesome. I'm going to address the question in the chat by Eric Real Quick. No. the Internet at CSU on campus is actually really good. None of us are on campus right now because of the pandemic. While it's actually open for us, which I'm really thankful for all of us. Just like Katie said in the chat.

Prefer to be at home so you know called soon Wi-Fi.

Will be different than CSC Wi-Fi.

Come back.

Yeah for sure.

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Welcome back Jackson. Can I ask you a couple questions so you can show me the parts?

Cool, um I was going to ask basically like what has been the largest impact on you as a student here at CSU. Whether it's within your society or not, we're kind of going more into the whole personal experience at CSU as a whole.

Yeah, that's awesome. That's that's a really great answer. Thank you, Katie. Thank you again for this question. What are the requirements to be in Tau Beta, Pi and or ECC?

So tell Beta Pi is based since it's an Honor Society is based on your like grade point, average percentage. So if you're a junior by credit standing, I believe you have to be in the top 1/8 of your class at the top 12 1/2%. And if you're a senior you have to be in the top 1/5 so the top 20%.

For ECC, all of our general meetings are like anyone from the engineering college can attend general meetings for Engineering College Council. Generally we have representatives from each engineering student organization. Come to our general meetings though.

Yeah, definitely. I like what you just said Jackson about revamping the Organization. For those of you don't know, I'm heavily involved in societal engineers and we're definitely like thinking.

OK, how are we really just going to redo what we do, you know? So it's really interested and I feel like it kind of lets us be little bit more creative in what we do.

So I don't know. I mean, it's a horrible thing, but it definitely forces us to think of new ideas which could be a plus out of all of this.

Awesome Oh Jackson. I did want to ask too. I asked Sidney in Sebastian about their future goals. Whether that's you know your future years here at CSU or an industry, can you share a little bit about, you know any ideas of what you want to do in the future?

Yeah, that's actually a really, really cool example of the fact that you can major in engineering and it's OK if it's not for you and that actually kind of leads into my next question. What advice do you have for prospective freshmen? So choosing you know students who are choosing a University and then also choosing a major?

I think that was it just felt prospective freshman choosing major. Yeah, I think that's really awesome. Sidney and Sebastian, do you guys have anything else to add to Jacksons? Answer for that.

I would say don't be afraid to like fail on specifically if you are in like.

During Major 'cause I was a pretty good student in high school like pretty Faye and the first time you get a test back but like not.

You failed, but like all your friends did really well on it and you're not sure why you got a 50 and they all got 80 fives like it's really. It's kind of a bummer and you have to be able to look at it and be like.

Time like this is a learning experience, but this is not going to ruin my day like you have another midterm, I'll take another crack at it and be able to like. Pick yourself up and you're so my biggest like piece of advice, something I wish I would have known.

I would also say that you know general people you know, choose majors. They feel pretty good about it. They think I really like doing things that are done in this major. But even as people leave college and enter industry and start getting jobs, they find that they like, oh, I never. I never thought as a biomedical engineer I would be. I would love systems engineering so much and then they move into those kinds of jobs as life progresses.

And you keep getting more opportunities and more experiences.

And I would say that you know it's great too if you have something you love, it's great to go for it. You know it's really get into that. Offer those opportunities and those experiences in that major. But also if you don't really have an idea exactly right now, there are also engineering options that you can enter into as a freshman, and that way get a lot more experience like General Engineering experiences to find what you think is best.

I would add 1.

Yeah, well, oh go ahead Sydney.

I was just going to add on to that. I think that's a really good point. Like most people like. Even if you take like a six year path through College, you'll be 24 end of it. If you maybe have picked a major that looking back is not right for you, that is absolutely not the end of the world. Use it like you were saying is like a stepping stone like use that to open doors but don't stay awake at night worrying if your major is like a perfect fit. Things will work out. You'll be good so.

I love all the positive iti in this room. It makes my heart so full.

Yeah, definitely.

Go ahead Jackson.

For sure for sure. OK cool so I know a lot of us have other engagements, so I'll definitely finish it up with just one other question. And then we'll let our panelists thank you so much for coming again. And then also our viewers go give him a little bit more minutes of their time to spare. But let's see, will just answer one of Katie's questions here in the chat.

Is there a college council or Tau Beta Pi Honor Society for other kind of colleges at CSU? So Warner Colleges of Natural Sciences, ECC once like that. Or is this council involved in decision making for the entire T of the college as a whole?

I just miss you. Yep, got you.

I love that. Does anyone else have anything to add to that?

Tell me the pie is the only all Engineering Honor Society, but a lot of other majors have specific honor societies and they can also be found across campus. We function in a lot of similar roles to answer one of Katie's earlier questions are something that alumni can be involved with and so the function is like a networking tool.

Through your college years, but then also after.

Awesome cool Wolf. Thank you so much guys for coming really appreciate it and move to that. Oh also want to tell viewers get social police you can follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at CSU Engineering in. Also if you do have any questions you can email us. I'll actually plug our email into here. You can email us and we can get you connected with whoever. I'm sure Sidney Sebastian or Jackson would also love to get connected with you if you are interested in our honor.

Societies.

Just type this in.

But otherwise, does anyone want to end with anything? Or we all feel like pretty good.

Pretty good.

Men.

Yeah awesome. OK well thank you guys so much for coming. I hope you have a great day.

Hi.

Thank you.

Bye.