Live Virtual Tour: Biomedical Engineering

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Hi Luke from Alabama welcome.

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So hello, my name is Katie. I'm a fifth year studying biomedical engineering with chemical and biological. So I'm finally in that last push of the five year program. But it has been absolutely worth it. My pronouns are she, her, hers and I'm happy to walk you guys through our facilities and hopefully give you some insight into what our bio medical engineering program is all about.

We'll go ahead and get started.

So open the campus. I wish that all of you are here in person and then we can actually walk around and enjoy the beautiful campus together. But given the circumstances, as you know we can't. But here are just some images to help you get an idea about what our campus looks like. So absolutely beautiful. It backs up right into the foothills, so we're very close to the mountains. It takes about an hour and a half or two to drive to the nearest ski resort. So if you're a ski bum like me, that's something I definitely looked for when I was doing my college search.

One thing that I love about CSU is how much green space we have, so you can kind of see in that top picture tons of green space and that's part of our land acknowledgement. We'd like to have it open. We like to have spaces where students can, you know, engage with one to one another. They can play games they can play in our murals. There's usually a lot of dogs on campus, so very light, so a very lively campus atmosphere. And then the bottom right you'll see our brand new.

Football stadium I think that was back in 2018 is when it was finished, so I've gone to a couple games there. It's super fun. It's right on campus, which makes it really convenient to walk too, which is nice.

So here's a view of our Walter Scott Junior College of engineering, and so this is a building that's mostly home to biomedical engineering students, chemical and biological, and then a little bit of environmental and civil in there as well. And so this is our newer building. It was actually donated by an alumni which is Walter Scott himself. He graduated from CSU with a degree in civil engineering and he loves CSU so much that he donated.

About $54,000,000 for us. To build this new building and have lots of more labs and classrooms and study spaces for students. Which is absolutely awesome. And in addition to that, he actually donated money to help start a Scholarship Foundation, which is the Walter Scott Junior Undergraduate scholarship. And so this is a scholarship that's based off of. Normally your test scores and your grade point average and throughout high school.

And also extracurriculars and things like that, and it will probably look a little different this year just with those test scores being optional as a part of your application, so not quite sure how that will work yet, but if you see or receive an email that you're eligible for the scholarship, it's a great opportunity to get a lot of help with coming to CSU and then within the College of engineering as well.

So here is a picture of our student success center, so this is right when you walk into the building and it's going to be right there on your left. It's the first thing you'll see an it's a Gray office. I might be slightly biased because that's where us ambassadors work from, but it is really a exactly what it sounds Success Center for you. So some of the great resources that they have here include mock interviews. They do resume reviews and they also put on our engineering career fair.

And so what's really nice is that when I came into college, personally, I did not know one engineering resume should look like. I thought it could be whatever you wanted an it turns out then engineering they like it to be pretty structured. Know exactly where your GPA are, where your skills are, things like that. It's this office definitely helps me reshape that into what it needs to be. And it's also great that they have these mock interviews will have actual industry members come in. Who are engineers themselves?

And they will interview you. They'll give you mock technical interviews, so they'll ask you about you. Know your engineering knowledge and common questions that you might be asked in an interview. So that's really experience. I think it never hurts to practice more.

It's all free. All of these resources are here for you to utilize as a student, so definitely take advantage and then I mentioned our career fair. So CSU has a career fair that is widespread throughout the entire University and so this is usually two days and each day is like tailored to different industries. So like the first day is usually all about biotech and life Sciences and agriculture and things like that. Then the second day will be more of the Liberal Liberal.

Arts and business degrees. So those are great opportunities to, you know. Connect with companies and industry members, things like that, but in. On top of that, through the Engineering Success Center we have an engineering specific career fair, so we'll have one each semester an it's only open to stem majors, so engineering students, but also students are just studying life Sciences and mathematics. And like computer science and things like that as well. So it's definitely smaller in the sense that less students come.

But we still get a lot of employers. I think at our first virtual career fair that we just had about a month ago. We had over 64 companies come and meet with students and recruit so great opportunities there to engage with these companies. And I always like to tell people regardless of where you go to school, I think it's really great to take advantage of a career fair right off the bat. You don't need to be a junior or a senior to go to them.

I think it's very beneficial if you do go in your first year. That way you're just building those connections right away, and it's often that these companies send the same representative each year, so you might be able to, you know, develop your relationship with them as you go through your degree.

Alright, so moving on in all of our engineering buildings we have what's called a design studios, so these are modeled off of Lockheed Martin and So what they are is that in the middle you're going to have the space where you can collaborate with other students lot of times in engineering you're not just working on projects by yourself or with people in your major. You might be working with students who are outside of that major, so it's nice to have that collaborative space in the middle.

But then it also comes equipped with all these computers on the outside for you to do. You know your own individual work and your own research, so these will be in any engineering building across campus, which is awesome. And with engineering you are going to have some programs that you're going to need to use for your classes such as Matlab or SolidWorks or AutoCAD. And what's nice is that you don't need to purchase these on your own. You can actually get access to anything that you're going to need in class on these computers. So as an engineering student here.

You're going to get your own specific engineering like login domain type of thing. That way you can log into these computers and then have everything you need to succeed in your classes that way.

And what's also nice is that with that engineering domain you can access it on your personal computer. So we have a virtual classroom where you can just download the VPN file, log into your personal engineering account, and then you can work on whatever the coding or the designing programs that you need on your personal computer at home, which is awesome.

So one more thing is that as an engineering student at CSU, printing is included in your student fees, so you don't need to put money into a printing account with the library. You just have free printing at any engineering building across campus. And what's nice is that that includes our academic village residence Hall, so the engineering residential learning community has these design studios. They have printers, so if you're running late to class and you live in the.

Residence Hall you can just run downstairs, print something real quick and be on your way.

And all of this is open to anyone that's within engineering, so you don't need to live in the resident. The engineering residence Hall to get access to those printers and the design studios that are in the first floor of that.

So one of my favorite things about the Walter Scott Junior College of Engineering is the study spaces I. You do have to study a lot as an engineer. It's very rigorous. It takes a lot of time, but what's nice is that we have so many different studies faces that don't get used that much. Honestly, like you don't need to just go to the library within any of our buildings. We have a ton of a man. This is one of my favorites right here.

It's on the 2nd floor and what's nice is that we have these whiteboard walls, so I like that because oftentimes with an engineering problem it's not likely that you're just going to have to go through it one time and get it for like perfectly correct, you might need to go back and change once one step that you might have missed up. So what's nice is that you can go back very easily on these whiteboards. Do it. It makes a lot of space for again, that collaboration between your peers and your classmates.

And they're not busy that much. So when we're on campus, alot of Steven Seagal Library. So this is my favorite spot. Just because it doesn't get taken up this much and it's a great place to work.

So now actually getting into biomedical engineering so.

Back to the pole. It looks like we have people interested in chemical and biological, mechanical and then other. So what's awesome is that with the bio medical engineering program, there's a lot of wiggle room I guess in your first year for you to decide exactly what you want to do with it. So let me just start by without saying what the reason is behind having the dual major and so.

The reason that we have biomedical engineering as a five year program that's paired with another discipline is because it's so broad. It's still like an upcoming area of engineering and there's so many different things you can do within it. So having that partnering major helps narrow down what you're really interested in pursuing and narrow down the industry that you will go into after graduation, and so you can pair it with chemical and biological engineering.

You can pair it with mechanical or you compare it with electrical and those are the only three options to pair it with.

You can't pair it with civil or environmental, it just it doesn't make sense as much as the other three.

But there is a lot of wiggle room, so your first year you're gonna take a class called introduction to biomedical engineering and I believe they split it up into two classes now. So you'll take the first part of the class in your first year, in the second part in your the beginning of your second year and it will give you a great introduction, an overview of Biomedical Engineering as a whole annual. Take it with all the biomedical engineering students. So when I was in my first year I took it with Mechanical Engineers an electrical.

Even though I am a chemical and biological, so right off the bat, you're going to be in a class with people who are not.

You are in a different engineering discipline than you, and you're going to be learning the same material, and you're going to learn the basics of Biomedical Engineering, which is awesome. And so from that point, your second and third year are really in bulk about your partnering major.

Um so.

You'll take like the introduction to your partnering discipline on top of the introduction to biomedical engineering, and then you really come back and refocus on Biomedical Engineering in your third year and so.

It really like it's not hard to manage the two like their classes are really spread out nicely so that it's a good progression of them together, if that makes sense and so.

The lab that you'll take your third year is again gonna be with every biomedical engineering student in your grade. So even if you choose mechanical engineering, for example, you're going to take it with electrical and chemical and biological students as well, and so this lab is our problem based bio. Medical engineering, teaching love, and so it's a really neat class. I was one of my favourites.

CSU I think as a whole and one of my favorite bio medical engineering courses that I've taken. And so it's all project base. It's all going to be very hands-on and very technical, which is great. So you're going to apply some of those skills that you've been learning in your introductory engineering courses. An physics and chemistry and math and all that are going to come together. And now you're going to do it with projects that are hands on. And so your first 2 projects are going to be research based.

So what that will look like is.

You'll get a problem and then will be like for example.

Testing methods an detecting methods for prostate and pancreatic cancer are not very great. They will oftentimes catch these types of cancers very late on. At this point, the survival rate for most patients is not great, so you'll get a problem like that and it'll be like what can we do to try and detect the cancer at an earlier stage, like maybe in the first stage of the second stage so that we can really get these patients on treatment.

As soon as possible. So what your task to do then is essentially a literature review where you're going to see all the methods that are out there right now, and you as a group are going to try and figure out how you can make that better so.

What's really interesting is that you do get to work with students who aren't near degree, so I know when I was assigned assigned that problem. When I took this class, I approached it much differently than the electrical engineering student in my in my group I looked at OK, what? What kind of markers in our blood can we see? Or can we detect to see if the cancer is present whereas they thought OK? What kind of?

Imaging can we use to try and see if see the tumor grow from a very small scale so you know, can we use an MRI? Can we use a CT scan? Things like that. So it's fairly very cool to see. Like the different perspectives coming in. Even though you guys are working towards the same solution and it brings a lot of perspective as well. 'cause you might be like you might think. Oh I, I didn't even think about image Ingane. That's another area that I can research and look into as well.

So your first 2 projects will look mostly like that and you guys will be trying to figure out a way to improve on something that's current, or you'll try and come up with your own solution altogether, and then the second 2 projects are all going to be research or sorry experimental based.

And so my year one of the projects we did is actually what the bottom right picture is demonstrating, and so we got to test the as seen on TV exercise equipment. Disclaimer none of them work. Don't spend your money, but what's really neat is that you get it figured out on your own. And So what my group did was we actually were testing 6 second AB machine ascentia Lee. It's a machine that you sit on your lap and then you're just crunching over these resistant bands.

Over and over, and it's supposed to give you rock hard abs in I think like 2 weeks it claimed so what's neat is that you get to fully design your own experiment from scratch, execute it, and then you're going to have to present your results through a presentation in a paper.

So what's cool is with this project you got to use an electromyography, which is a medical device. So Ananya's using it in the top left picture and so you attach a bunch of electrodes to your muscle, an essentially what it's doing is it's going to measure the electric potential going across your muscle fiber, and from there you are able to transform that raw data reading into an output of how much work.

Are you putting in? How much is your muscle contracting? Is it actually like contracting the muscle? Essentially so really cool. It was very hands on and it's really neat because it's your first chance to actually like design, experiment and follow it through all the way to the end. And so some students for this class get a little intimidated because you do have to do a lot of imitations. I think there's six presentations in this class and sometimes that.

Scares us engineers 'cause we might not be the most talkative, but it's really great. You're learning so many different skills, not only strengthening your technical skills as an engineer, but you're learning a lot of soft skills as well. You're going to learn how to present your findings to a group that might not have a lot of background on it. You're going to learn how to write technical reports.

Write proposals, things like that. So a lot of good skills to be gained with that.

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So that's kind of like the big lab, but just as an overview for bio Med.

So if you pair biomedical engineering with mechanical engineering, then some of the different areas that you can go into include research on artificial organs. The biggest one is prosthetics especially.

Now prosthetics is such a growing field. There they're starting to increase flexibility. They're starting to make robotic ones so many different avenues that you can go down. For that you can go into the medical device industry, medical, manufacturing, things like that. So with mechanical engineering, you're still going to have all of the knowledge that you would if you just did mechanical engineering.

But the benefit of having bio medical is that you're just going to add even more avenues to go down. You're going to open up this whole field of medical devices, prosthetics, working with the body, and so all of the concepts that you're learning in that partnering discipline are going to show through in your bio medical classes as well. And so if you pair it with chemical and biological engineering, it's really big. In Pharmaceuticals you can go into regenerative medicine or tissue engineering.

Which is really cool. That's what I want to go into. You can go into biotechnology and you can go into therapeutic research. So I have a lot of classmates who are working in research labs focusing on Cancer Research, so definitely a lot of areas to go into with that. And then for electrical engineering, one of the biggest industries to go into is image Ng. So again those MRI scans.

CT scan and you can go into robotic surgical tools. Electrical engineers are actually behind a pacemaker. If someone has heart abnormal abnormalities, so definitely a lot of different areas to go into.

Which major? So we do have a question from Luke, which major aside from bio medical focuses on prosthetics so.

Specifically, within the College of engineering.

I would say mechanical by itself would give you kind of that background that you need to go into prosthetics 'cause it is going to be a lot of.

Like mechanics, looking into your bodies, you're going to have to figure out you know how much weight is this prosthetic gonna be able to support? How much force can the? Let's say you're doing a prosthetic for a leg. How much force cannot need replicated joint take? So I would say mechanical would be the best bet, but the benefit then of having bio medical is that you're getting.

Side background, in the biology and in the body, so you're going to have to take a couple of biology classes. You're going to have to take a Physiology course, and so adding the bio medical engineering on top of it is going to equip you better. I think to go into prosthetics.

Outside of the College of engineering, I am not sure what.

Major would focus more on prosthetics, just 'cause it is completely designing a new thing, which is what engineers do. We problem solved to design new ways of doing things so I would say mechanical an especially mechanical with the extra degree about medical would be the best for prosthetics. I hope that answer your question if I didn't understand it fully then type another one and hopefully I can answer better.

And so this class is your. This lab again is in your 30 year, and so once you're done with this course and you go on to your 4th year, this is when you'll split up into your specific.

Class is based on your partnering major, and so if you choose to pursue biomedical engineering with mechanical, then in your 4th year you're going to take a bio mechanics in biomaterials lab, so this is a class again that's going to just be focused on that mechanical aspect of bio medical engineering, and so a great example would be prosthetics. You are going to be learning, you know.

Exactly like how to design that so that it can withstand the force and the weight of your body, and it's going to be all about that, and it's going to be all about materials that are compatible in the human body and things like that. So definitely just the mechanical aspect of bio Med. If you choose to partnering partnering with chemical and biological, then you're going to take a class called transport phenomena. So this is a class that's all focused on how.

How chemicals and how different you know atoms and things like that diffuse and move through your body. So let's say you're interested in Pharmaceuticals and maybe you're doing research on a new drug. Then what this class teaches you to do is computationally model how that drug is going to move through each system of your body. So you're going to say, OK, let's.

Swallow the pill and then it needs to diffuse through the stomach, so you're going to see how it diffuses through at what rate it diffuses through.

You know how much is actually going out into my bloodstream that I ingested an how much is just getting going to waste and you're going to follow that like through the entire pathway of your body until it hits that target organ that it's going to. So it teaches you you know how to.

Not only model this but just think about this stuff on an entire scale of like your body and how your body works.

And if you pair it with electrical engineering, you take a class called biomedical signals, an image processing, and so.

I think, uh, like these classes are really just to help narrow it down. Now in your 4th year and make it specific to your actual partnering discipline and so up until like your 4th year, your bio medical engineering courses are taking with everyone and then your 4th year. That's when they're going to separate us and say, OK, here's what biomedical engineering with your partnering degree looks like. And those are the classes that you'll take your 4th year. So it's a great chance to, you know, figure out what specific part of your industry you want to go into.

Um and stuff like that and so on. Top of that you have to take something called technical electives, and So what technical electives are is a chance for you to either further narrow down what you're interested in, or a chance for you to explore and try something new so you can take these electives within the College of engineering, or you can take him with a different college throughout. CSU I'm taking one with our biomedical Sciences College.

So it's really a chance for you to kind of decide what you want to do, so some examples of those like if you are pairing this with mechanical engineering you can take another class on bio mechanics. If that was something you're really interested in an you really want to do prosthetics and that could be a great way to give you more knowledge to go work in that industry.

So yeah, so that's kind of how technical electives work and waste biomedical engineering. You actually take more technical electives than any other engineering discipline, and so you'll have to take, I think, like 6, five or six credits in your partnering discipline. And then, like three or four and the bio medical, engineering, technical electives. And so I think you take about 3 classes in total. Usually you can take more if you want, but those are just the requirements to graduate.

And again, you can just.

Narrow it down more or you can take something that's totally like out of the realm of what you might be wanting to pursue, but it might just be interesting for you, so there's a lot of room you know for you to gain more skills in a specific area or branch out.

And so I'll just do a quick overview of each of the partnering disciplines an what they look like on their own. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to put them in the chat. Hopefully I'm not going too fast, so we'll talk about chemical and biological engineering. 1st so this machine right here is a hemodialysis machine and it's in a lab that you'll take your first year in your 4th year.

And so chemical and biological engineering is really unique in that it's technically two programs and itself a lot of other universities have chemical engineering by itself. And then biological engineering by itself. And CSU was the first one to kind of mesh them together. And being a bit accredited program and we were followed by CU. Boulder and now more universities are implementing it as well. And it's really a great conjunction of the two. They're very.

They overlap a lot, so it makes sense that they can be together. So with chemical engineering it's a lot of process engineering. So if you think about the oil and gas industry, you have to figure out you know how to extract oil from the ground and how to process it so that it becomes what we put in our car and then the biological aspect is really just taking the fundamentals of that process and now applying them to a system within your body.

So they definitely mesh very well together and specifically looking up as hemodialysis machine. So this is a machine that's used for someone who doesn't have a functioning kidney and So what? That looks like is their body can't really expel these toxins like it normally would be, which can be very fatal an it can make people very sick and so let's act like.

The water jug right here is the kidney, and so you'll have different tubes coming in an out, and So what you'll kind of do with this piece of equipment is you'll say alright if the water jug is our kidney and we have this stream flowing.

Out of it, that's full of, let's say, oxygen in nitrogen, and we'll treat nitrogen like a toxin. Then you get to figure out you know what kind of pressure, what kind of flow rates, what kind of settings does this need to be at so that I can diffuse the nitrogen out of out of the.

I guess the membrane of the body and so that we can expel it away and keep the oxygen in so that I can go right back into that kidney. And so you're really kind of mimicking that with here with this.

Piece of equipment and this is something that chemical engineers designed, and so it's very helpful. It has saved so many lives because it's taking the toxins out of these peoples bodies. Getting rid of 'em and flowing back in all of that healthy oxygenated blood into their system. And so you definitely get to figure out you know what happens if I change the pressure. How does that affect what's actually coming out and how does it change it? So definitely just very hands on, giving you like the first look into.

Taking those concepts that you're learning in class and now putting him onto something that's physical and so you'll also work on like bioreactors and stuff like that. So with the bioreactors you'll get to measure, you'll get to actually breathe equal light yourself, and then you get to see you know how does the equal I behave if I shut the oxygen off, or how does it behave if I turn it back on?

How is it gonna grow more cells? What's gonna happen? You know if I start adding nitrogen to it is it gonna kill the E coli completely? Stuff like that and it's really just again taking those concepts from the classroom and now applying them in a lab setting. Getting your hands dirty, giving you more experience to talk about once you go in the industry or you do have internships or interviews or things like that.

Alright, so this is just a few of our engineering building, so this is our second engineering building and this one is home to mostly mechanical engineering, civil and environmental and then electrical and computer.

But often engineer how you probably have classes in both of the buildings I did and I know most of the people I know have classes in both, so they're not exclusive to one major or another, but a lot of the labs for mechanical and civil are in the basement of this building.

And so here's our engineering manufacturing lab, so this is a lab that Mechanical Engineers take.

And so what's cool about that is you get to gain experience with precision machining tools, so you'll work with CNC's. You'll work with vertical Mills. You'll work with waves, welding machines, and you honestly just get to not only gain experience in it, but by the time you're out of this lab, you can know how to operate it.

Can take a raw material and turn it into something by the end of it so very hands on. I think it's probably most mechanical engineering students. Favorite place to be, and once you're like equipped and you know how to work all of the machinery better than you can actually use this lab for later projects like senior senior design project or things like that.

And so some of the projects they work on include building your own Clock. You do a heat treated screwdriver from scratch. You make a trivet and what's cool is that.

The design in, like the final product, is up to you. You get, you know you have certain dimensions and sizes that you have to be within the range of, but it's really like personalized to what you want to make it.

And it is teaching you a lot of those precision skills, because each project that you make has to be within like 1 thousandth of a.

One thousands of a tolerance for whatever the project is, so definitely teaches you you know how to follow guidelines and get the get the project done, how it's supposed to be, but you still have like the free range to you know, design it and make it your own as well.

So.

Waste mechanical engineering students. Sometimes it can get really confusing with how it overlaps with electrical engineering, and so a good way to kind of explain or guide you into which one you might be more interested in is students are given in one of our classes, are giving given a project where they have to build a car that can completely track this line on the ground and not deviate away from it. It can't go to the right. Can't go to the left, it needs to just follow this line straight on.

Regardless of what the turns are and stuff like that, and so the mechanical engineering student is actually going to build the car and design how that's going to work, and they're given the line tracing sensor, whereas an electrical engineering student would be given the car and actually have to create the line the line sensor so that just helps like kind of distinguish the two. So you might be more interested in actually the circuitry behind the light sensor.

Or you might just be more interested in building the car and and building the motor and things like that, and so another class that mechanical engineering students take his mechatronics. I've heard that this is one of the most fun classes that they take, so it's kind of an overlap of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, but only mechanical engineering students can take it and so you work, you start working with some basic circuitry.

An Arduino's an. The only requirements of this lab is that your group and you come up with something that makes noise lights up and moves. Other than that you have free range to do whatever project you want in this lab. So if you have some project that you've always wanted to do since you were a kid, this is your chance to do it with your group. I think one year students did a whack a professor and so they 3D printed professors heads.

And then created like a whack a mole game.

Which the professors and appreciate too much, but it was a really creative idea. You can definitely get fun with it, and it is. It can be lighthearted for what you want your project to do. One group didn't inverted drinking cart, so no matter how hard you kicked it or moved it, your drink would not spill. So again, just leaves a lot of room for creativity, but gives these mechanical engineering students a chance to kind of get some introduction into circuitry in how those systems work.

And so I briefly mentioned 3D printing, and so we have 3D printers all across campus like within the library and some other buildings. But we do have one lab called the idea to product lab, which is in the basement of our engineering building. And so this is mostly just used by engineering students 'cause there not not a lot of other students know about it, but once you take a class on the basics of 3D printing and.

You're kind of like certified an you know how to work him. Then you can just bring your own materials and use the 3D printers and so this is a great chance to use them for a project you might have for class. Or if you just want to, you know, make a present for your mom or someone, whoever it might be. for Christmas. You can come in here in 3D, print on something and so some of the biomedical research that's taking place out of the idea to product lab include a 3D printed vertebrae.

So right now if someone fractures a part of their vertebrae or they break it, one of the Solutions is inserting a metal like a metal piece into where that vertebrae was an.

It's not a great solution just because it doesn't provide a lot of flexibility. It might be able to withhold you, know the weight of your body because it needs to, but it's not a great material to use having metal.

And again, it just leaves a lot of that free range of your spine limited and so researchers are 3D printing a vertebrae that will have bio compatible materials will be cheaper materials, so it won't cost so much, and it will also provide more of that flexibility for the patient as well. Researchers are also 3D printing a sent, so if someone has a clogged artery or a blood clot, they'll place a metal stent right into the artery so that it widens it up and then promote or.

Promotes that blood flow through it. Again, having that piece of metal, it's not the best. It's very **** ** your artery walls.

It's not the best. I have metal within your bloodstream, and so 3D printing something that's more bio compatible and again more flexible is a great solution an it's all being done out of this lab. So that definitely like demonstrates you know how big 3D printers are becoming within the field of engineering and within research. And you do have the means to learn how to 3D print and get experience at experience with it at CSU, which is great. So definitely take advantage of that.

3D printing is awesome.

And Lastly we have our electrical and Computer Engineering teaching lab, so it's called electrical and computer engineering combined. 'cause That's the Department. But if you are pairing with biomedical engineering, you can only pair electrical, not computer.

Um, so electrical engineer.

Others focus a lot on the hardware and not circuitry, and so right off the bat in your first year you're going to be working with circuits. You're going to learn how to measure the resistance.

And voltage and current across different circuit designs to learn, you know the benefits of, let's say a series design over a parallel design or something like that.

This is going to progress along your time at CSU into actually designing your own circuits for whatever the project might be, but very hands-on. I know this lab doesn't look like much, but with electrical and Computer Engineering, a lot of the stuff is very small scale.

And so there's not a lot to show for it, but they are doing a lot in terms of the hands-on aspect of it. And so again, those electrical engineers. If you go back to the car example are really going to focus on, you know, creating that light sensor and working with the circuitry design behind that. So here's just some of our students in the electrical and computer Department working on projects and so.

This shows for a little more like there stuff might be microscale, but it definitely gets bigger as you go, but it is a lot of that hardware aspect of it.

Yeah, so if anyone has any questions about carrying these three with bio medical, please ask them. I know it can get a little confusing with the two degrees.

But I'm here to help. I would say that it's worth it. I I think that it opens up so many different opportunities for you.

I think that you know.

You still are going to be equipped to do your partnering discipline. If you choose suggest, pursue that in industry. But having the bio medical aspect is going to open up so much more.

For you to pursue, you know, and it is an extra year, but I think it's worth it. And one of the best benefits is in your fifth year. It's all going to be focused on your senior design project, which is actually what this group in the left is doing. They're working on their senior design project, and so if you pair it with biomedical engineering, your design projects going to be around biomedical engineering, so you'll come back together. Annual work in a group with all biomedical engineering, so you're in a group with an electrical unit, group of mechanical accounting.

Home biological, and again, you're coming together to offer different perspectives on the solution and so what's neat about that is, again, that interdisciplinary cross between the different departments. But it's really just great. You know, to work with other students who have a common goal of helping human humans. You know. So, like some of the projects, I think that we have this year.

Is one of them is a wheelchair monitoring system and this one is very electrical and mechanical oriented, but it does still have chemical and biological engineering students on it, and So what this system is is building a wheelchair for patients who might have some form of browses and what it's going to do is remind them to one. Remind them to lean back to prevent source. Then two it's going to monitor.

Urine levels within their urine bag so that it doesn't overflow, but stuff like this might sound minimal, but for someone who has some degree of paralysis, it's actually a very big thing, and it's very helpful. So small things like that can have such a big impact on the person that you're doing it for an. That's what I love about Biomedical Engineering is that every project behind what you're doing and everything in the industry is really.

Just trying to help people help people live a better life everyday and if that's something that like your passion about and you want to work in a field, that's like trying to improve human health and you know, just make it better for someone, then I think bio medical engineering is a great Ave to go and I think engineering in general is a great Ave in our welcome. We mentioned the grand challenges of engineering and if you haven't looked him up you should because.

All of them talk about bettering the world better and people creating solutions that are really going to be impactful. And so if that's like a passion that you have is wanting to do something that's going to leave an impact, then whatever engineering discipline you choose to pursue is going to do just that.

So yeah, that was a bit of a tangent, but I think engineering is awesome an I think it's great that you guys you know hung out with us this whole week and this whole day to learn more about our specific programs. So I hope that was helpful. But please if you have any questions about biomedical engineering specifically, please drop him. But shifting gears a little bit so I'll talk about officers an advising and so.

Like I said at the beginning, engineering can be hard.

Definitely rigorous. The curriculum is rigorous and so on. Top of tutoring we also have office hours an I have found these to be the most helpful in my past. Four and a half years of CSU, and so each faculty member that you have is required to host a certain amount of office hours each week and this is a great way to ask questions just on a one on one kind of level and then also get to know your professors outside of the classroom.

Our professors are awesome. They love to get to know you. They want you to succeed. That's why they're here. That's why they're teaching you and so office hours are great even if you don't have a specific question. I would sometimes go in there just to do my homework and hang out with my professors. 'cause they're they're awesome and they you have to remember that they're people too like they they might be intimidating in classes and stuff like that, but once you just get chatting with them in office hours, you'll actually realize you know there.

Very cool people, and they're very knowledgeable in a great connection to have as well, and so without. You'll also have academic advisors, so with biomedical engineering you're gonna have a an advisor specific to biomedical engineering, and then you'll have an advisor specific to your partnering discipline, so you'll have two advisors annual meet with them once each semester, and they will help you stay on track. Help you figure out what classes you want.

And need to take in that next semester if you're taking a semester of like 18 credits for example. And it's very stressful and too much, then they'll help you kind of Rearrange your schedule and get you down to a credit level that works for you, so they're just here to make sure you succeed. Make sure that you feel comfortable with where you're at in your degree and help you stay on track to graduate on time.

And so here is just more examples of some study space. So this is a design studio that's in the second engineering building that we looked at. But again, lots of study space, very interactive and sometimes actually most of the time professors will hold office hours in these different design studios. So it's very helpful and you'll have like computers and printer access while you're there as well.

So here are some pictures of some classrooms that we have in our engineering buildings.

So with classes we often get asked, you know, like how big are they an is it hard to get to know the professor? And I would say you know they definitely start off bigger, so in your chemistry an your physics classes, you'll have probably a class of like 200 to 300 students, which is very big, but.

With that you'll have something called a recitation, and so the recitation is like a 50 minute.

50 minute class period and it's usually run by the teaching assistants for the class.

Hi, it's great because it's a class of like 20 students from your big lecture and so it's a very easy to, you know, get that one on one help right away. But also I never found it an issue that gets no my professors even in those big classes they're used to having that many students. And if you want to get to know them you can always like to say that you know you get out what you put in and so if you want to build a relationship with them then absolutely go up to them, introduce yourself, go to their office hours, things like that.

And you'll get help that way. And then as far as like your engineering courses go, I think they usually start Nov not too big for me. My intro to chemical and biological engineering class was around 100 students, over 120 students, and now we're down to about 100 in my fifth year and so you'll see some people taper off, you know, as they find a degree that fits them better.

And so.

They're not too big, and they they actually like you. Get to know your classmates so well because you're going to be in your engineering courses with them for the next 4 or however many years. And so again, it's easy to form those study.

Oops, talk to your professor. Get to know your peers regardless of if it's a larger class.

And then I did mention at the beginning our engineering residential learning communities. So this is our residence Hall, but specific to engineering students, so only engineering students can live in it. It's where I lived my first year and I absolutely loved it. Although little hesitant to live with engineers all the time, but it actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I formed study groups right away. I formed so many meaningful friendships that I still have to this day.

So definitely a great environment, especially if you want to be around. You know students that are as serving as Yuan as motivated to work through engineering and so what's also nice is that as you can see here, we do have design studios in the in the first floor of that residence Hall, so super easy to just come right downstairs from your from your room and use the computers. Use the whiteboard, you study space, whatever it might be.

Yeah, and then here is a picture of what one of the rooms actually looks like, so it is a suite style so it will just be you and one other person. And then you'll share a bathroom. Just the two of you and these bathrooms are cleaned. When I lived there they were cleaned weekly which is really nice.

And it is just like it was a very big room, plenty of space for you and the other person. And it is the only residence Hall that has air conditioning. So once those hotter months hit right, right when you move in in August, it's awfully nice to have the air conditioning and they each have their own Wi-Fi router as well in the room. So definitely no problems with Wi-Fi are getting connected that way.

Awesome.

So that about concludes our virtual tour, but if I didn't answer anything that you guys might have questions on, or if you want like more specifics on what the classes look like in within biomedical engineering or within any of our engineering disciplines, definitely feel free to email us at the email I just dropped in the chat.

Then also we are having a lot of other virtual engagement opportunities as well for the rest of the semester. So if you're still like wanting to know more, wanting to talk to more students, then you can.

You can do a one on one appointment with one of our engineering student bass odars. You can pick an ambassador that's pursuing the degree you're interested in and really ask them You know questions about their experience, specific questions about classes, about projects, whatever it might be, but all of that can be found on our future students page of the website.

So definitely check those out if you're wanting to get engaged more. But if anyone out we do have a question from Luke, can I change what major I'm interested in, accidentally selected Biomet chemical rather than Bama? Yes, so yeah.

So have you filled out your application yet or was it just be in the interest for signing up for exploration week?

'cause if you did select that for your application, it's already submitted, no big deal. It's a very easy thing to just transfer you over to bio Med, an mechanical, if that's yes in your accept it. OK, well, congratulations on your acceptance. That's awesome. So yeah, that's really simple. We can actually just I'm going to drop.

Well, actually Luke, can you drop your email and I'm going to connect you with Jackie and it's very easy for us to once a year now. Now that you're accepted into engineering, it's really easy for us to transfer over to mechanical rather than chemical and biological, so I will make a note and I'll let Jackie Know and will reach out to you. 'cause I'm not sure if I know we can do it on your end, but I'm not sure if admissions has.

You change it on your end first, so I'll check with Jackie and then we'll be in touch about that. But you can absolutely change the major that you're interested in an with that. That's a good point if you're interested in biomedical engineering, but you're not sure if it's really what you want to do, I would say.

Get accepted and apply to it first, 'cause it's a lot easier to start off as a biomedical engineering dual.

Degree.

In, see if it's for you rather than start offen, just one degree, and then try and pick it up later. So right off the bat and your first introduction class, you'll be able to tell you know which partnering major you're more interested in, and you'll be able to tell. Like is bio medical. Actually, what I want to do. Or do I think I really just want to do the one major, so I always just say like it doesn't hurt to start off in it and then drop it. And I mean I've had class.

Cost me to started off in it and then dropped it their 4th year and we're still fine and still on track to graduate in four years with just that one degree then.

So yeah, if anyone has any questions.

Please feel free to email us at that email that I dropped or you can just use the chat feature on our engineering website, but I hope that this was helpful and I hope that you guys enjoy the rest of the sessions that you were in. And thanks for coming.