I said it looks like everyone is getting logged into our web and R right now. I'm really excited to share information with y'all this afternoon, so thank you so much for tuning in. Great cool. Looks like lots of folks are showing up all across the country. This is super exciting.
Great well and I see some familiar names. So hello welcome. I'll just pause for a few seconds here until everyone get situated and then we'll kick-off.
Great yeah, it looks like a lot of folks. We got Colorado, California, Utah, Oregon, New Mexico, Kansas. Great thank you all so much for tuning in today. This is so exciting. All right so I'm just to kind of get going. I do want to say a big welcome once again. I appreciate you all taking time out of your busy schedules to tune into our web and R this afternoon. So my name is Jackie Gold Ring an I'm the manager for undergraduate recruitment programs.
Here in the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering at Colorado State University, so I'm your point person. Many of you are admitted students, so please do reach out if you have any questions or concerns. If there's anything at all that I can help with, my email is here on this first slide an I'll be sure to drop it in the chat box before you rap up this afternoon. And so, how today is going to work is we're gonna start off with a quick presentation. I'll be focusing definitely an academic support for students.
In engineering at CSU, I do want to start off by doing an overview of our disciplines and engineering as well. Then at the end of the presentation were going to invite for student ambassadors to turn on their cameras and help answer questions. So in order to submit questions, you do have a chat box, so feel free to type any questions in there that you might have and feel free to add those now and will get to them after the presentation. Does that sound like a good plan to everyone?
OK, awesome, so let's get kicked of- here. So we're going to think about engineering today and and we're really going to focus on academic support because it's worth saying Engineering is rigorous and it truly has to be. And that's because as an engineer you may find yourself in a situation where you literally have somebody's lives in your hands, so you might be building a bridge or constructing a tunnel, and you have to be sure that you've got this skills in place to really ensure.
Safety for everyone involved in those projects as well as the people who will utilize those spaces. So Engineering is hard and there's definitely the support at CSU available to you as a student. And make sure that you succeed and that's what we're all committed to. And that goes for faculty, staff as well as your peers. So I'm excited today to share a lot of that information with you. So to get started, we're really just we're going to think about engineering holistic lee Ann. What engineers do so at the heart.
Of everything in Engineering is problem solving, so you look at things in the world. You see how things function, how they might be improved in order to better serve society and the environment, and so there's a lot of focus on that. At CSU annual. See that from the very beginning, which awesome is in the curriculum here? You actually start in your intro to engineering class and your very first semester. And in those classes were really focused in these areas listed on the slide. So we're thinking about collaborative solutions.
So you're working as a team to come up with solutions for different problems that you're facing. An AR scope of problems is really centered around the grand challenges of engineering, so if you are not yet familiar with the grand challenges, I would definitely say to go ahead and look this up. It's really interesting, so there's about 14 different challenges listed right now, and is everything from cyber security to clean water thinking through as well. How can we operate in a more sustainable way? What can we do in regard to global warming?
And it's thinking through how engineers come up with solutions to these wicked problems of the world. And you truly have the capacity to create great changes. An engineer which is truly exciting. Also it see if you were heavily focused on projects and this starts from the very beginning because we have that focus on applied knowledge. So of course you're going to be in lecture and you're going to be gaining that theoretical foundation that you need to succeed. But you also have these amazing opportunities to apply that knowledge so that you're working with your hands. 'cause that is the way that you truly embed knowledge.
And then your gonna be prepared to advance the field, which is really the goal. Ultimately, to move the needle forward. And so these are the focus areas at CS go. And so now I want to talk about the different disciplines that we offer within the College of engineering. So I am going to go through these briefly one by one. And definitely you have questions about these. We can answer those once we get to the Q&A section. So first though, I want to start with bio medical engineering at CSU. So this is a very unique program, so it's a dual degree. That's a bet accredited in biomedical engineering.
So let's break that down. 'cause That's a lot of information at once, so let's start with dual degree. That means you get 2 degrees in five years. So it's basically by 1 degree get one 75% off. So what a bargain? And and then I also said a vet. So Eva is really important and I'm really excited to share with you that all of our engineering programs are Eva accredited. So this is our accreditation board that reviews all of our engineering curriculum. They look at everything from homework assignments to our test to all of our projects to make sure that core competencies are met in our curriculum so that when students into the workforce.
They are prepared to do so safely and so no matter where you end up at school or whatever industry you go into, definitely engineering accreditation is super important, and so here at CSU, we're very proud of our accreditation and specifically for our bio medical program and so with being a dual degree, that means you get one degree in biomedical engineering and you get to pick a partner major. And the reason behind this is because when we first started the school for biomedical engineering, we asked industry partners, hey, what can our students do to be more competitive?
And some of the feedback that they provided was the students should have a little bit more depth, right? Because Biomedical Engineering is fast like there's so many different applications. And so in order to add that increased amount of death to the program, that's why we picked a partner major, and so you can choose from three different partner majors in this program. The first one we're going to talk about is electrical engineering. So if you're thinking about electrical engineering in the realm of Biomedical, you may be thinking about imaging and scanning. And my medical devices and diagnostics as well.
I'm thinking out medical instruments or implants, so if I have a pacemaker inserted, I want to make sure that maybe that pacemaker is really efficient and has to be replaced less often, so those are some the projects that students and professionals might be working on the second partner major that you can choose from is mechanical engineering and so mechanical engineer is definitely think about everything that moves and then when you apply it to biomedical you're really thinking about human or animal life forms and what amazing machines like the human body and animal bodies and so our application.
A mechanical engineering. A lot of times this focus around prosthetics, so figuring out how the human body functions and losing how to replicate that as well. I'm students in this area also might go into things like medical devices, bio mechanics, and sometimes as well. Even tissue engineering and then the third partner major that you can choose from is chemical, biological engineering and so this is really great, especially if your focus may be in the pharmaceutical realm and so this is really thinking on that really molecular structure level and students can go into synthetic in computational biology as well as consulting.
Which is awesome. Also, if you're considering a premed pathway, definitely bio medical engineering could be a really great program for you, and the way that it would work is you would have your advisor within biomedical engineering, and then you would also have a premed advisor who is in our pre professional programs Department and so they'll help you make sure that you take all of the prerequisites to make you competitive as a Med school candidate, and also connects you to volunteer opportunities and extracurriculars that will really help to beef up your resume.
Great, so next we're going to move to chemical and biological engineering and so this is really an amazing degree at CSU as well. We actually the first a bit program in the nation to offer chemical and biological together. So this is very exciting because it it opens up all the opportunities for employment. So if you are interested in traditional chemical engineering roles like in oil and gas industries, you're going to be really a quick to do so. Then once you add in that biological component, you open up all the different realms where you're going to be competitive.
For your work placement, and so students in this area might be focused in things like process engineering. So no matter if you're going into like a manufacturing line, are big process control areas, they're always going to have process engineers looking after those divisions. So pretty much everything that we think about that's produced on a large level. Also, material science is a big piece of it, which is really exciting. The other one that I truly love is food engineering. So here in Fort Collins, like we're big community focused on food, we actually have the most restaurants per capita.
Outside of San Francisco, so we like food alot in here in Fort Collins were really fortunate to have one of the first Micro Breweries in the nation called New Belgium brewery and then with our chemical and biological engineering program, we have a Co op so students can participate in a year long rotation at New Belgium brewery and they're able to. They have to stop out of their curriculum at CSU for their academics, but then they work full time at New Belgium and cycle through all of their different departments to see what their engineers do. And so it's a great way to figure out what you want to do for your career.
And also maybe what you don't wanna do, but that's one of my favorite Co op opportunities for.
And students here at CS go.
So next I wanna talk about civil and environmental engineering, so I call her out of state. This is one Department but two separate degrees. So you either studies civil or environmental engineering. Either way, you're definitely going to be focused on large scale projects. So for civil engineering you might be thinking through city infrastructure, roadways, bridges, tunnels, buildings, right. Typically an architect is going to design a building and then it's really down to that civil engineer to figure out if it's going to be structurally sound. So all about things that should not move.
And then for environmental engineering, our focus is heavy and water, and that's actually something we're very well known for at CSU. So our civil and environmental engineering programs right now we're ranked #7 in the entire world, and a lot of that is down to our water resources program, and so at the program for environmental engineering, your focus on water contamination, water treatment, water quality, but also how to harness the power of water for clean energy. And so hydrology is a big piece of that as well.
So these are some really great areas that you could go into. Definitely a lot of our students in civil engineering and end up working for the Colorado Department of Transportation are going to work for smaller firms as well, either here in Colorado are nationwide.
So Next up I want talk about computer, an electrical engineering at CSU. So again, this is one Department, but two separate degrees. So you either study electrical or computer engineering at CSU and everything kind of falls under this umbrella of electrical engineering because it's everything to do with electrical components. With electrical engineering, you're definitely more focused, of course in the hardware at building out breadboards, circuitry design, things like that, and then with computer engineering you really get a happy balance between both the hardware aspects that you'll find in Electrical Engineering.
As well as the software components that you're going to find more. So in computer science, so it's a happy balance of both of those programs, so you're able to understand, of course, still, the architecture of a computer maybe still working in embedded systems, but you can go into software engineering with computer engineering degree. My fun fact for this Department is actually our placement rate, so our placement, right right now is 100% for students who graduate as electrical or computer engineers at CSU. So this means 100% of the students have.
Full time jobs or are going on to an advanced degree right after they finish their undergrad, and they also have the highest starting salary, so the average salary for students in these programs is $74,000 for their first job out of college. So not too shabby. Also, it's worth noting that right now on NASA in particular, and a lot of aerospace companies are heavily recruiting electrical and Computer Engineers 'cause literally, if everything that we touch from our watches to our phones to our computers and the exponential growth that we've seen in this industry is.
Only going to continue to grow over the next couple of years, so lots of areas you can go into. Again. Like I said, software design and software engineering. Also robotics is really important in this round. An as is aerospace. Really pretty much everybody everywhere you're going. Any industry is going to need electrical or computer engineer.
So next step is mechanical engineering, so this is definitely our largest program in our college for undergraduate students. So we have 1/3 of all of our students who are at CSU for engineering are in mechanical engineering and mechanical engineering. Again, is about everything that moves objects in motion in that flow of energy, and so this is a fantastic degree because it gives you a really broad foundation and great skills to enter into a number of different industries. And so how the programs are structured at CSU. And, of course, this applies to mechanical as well.
You start in your foundational courses, so your intro courses those first couple of years. Then as you progress through the program, it's exciting because you get to figure out where you see yourself and that aligns with how you select your technical electives and so technical electives really connect you to where you see yourself in industry, so they prepare you to become an expert in that field. For mechanical engineering, there's a number of different technical electives that you can choose from. You can focus in aerospace. You can focus in automotive controls, robotics.
There's tons of areas where you can go into that specific field of study that interests you. Most are students with in mechanical engineering. Definitely go into a number of in industries. An one thing worth mentioning is definitely our focus on clean and renewable energy at CSU, and so csus really known for their sustainability were actually ranked platinum by stars, which is a third party organization that ranks all of the sustainability measures at a higher Education Institute under tapes. And so we were the first institution to get platinum. Now we've got the ranking.
Three times in a row and so our commitment to sustainability is massive and you'll see that in a lot of our curriculum as well. So part of our campus includes our powerhouse Energy Institute, so this is a space that is not on CSU main campus. It's a little bit past Old Town Fort Collins, so just a mile a couple miles up the road from main campus and this is a great place for research opportunities and I would highly encourage you to get involved in research as a student at CSU.
And so a lot of the research that happens at the Energy Institute is focused on clean and renewable energy sources. So a lot of Mechanical Engineers are working there either in our engines lab also working in biofuels. And it's also where we house our Ecocar project is well and Ecocar is one of my favorite things on the past, slide actually was a picture of the Ecocar, but this is a really cool thing and sponsored by GM an they donate vehicles to us and it's down to our senior design team to really got the whole thing, redesign it, get it to run at zero emissions.
And then the students get to go on racism, and those vehicles are house over in our powerhouse. So again, mechanical engineering is a really great degree to set you up for success and the number of fields. So again, how are in energy generation, robotics, material science, engines, controls, aerospace, you name it.
Then if you're looking at all of the programs in engineering, you're like OK. I know I want to be an engineer, but I'm not quite sure where I see myself. You can always come into CSU as an engineering open option student and this means you are still admitted to the College of engineering and have access to all of our support resources. And in the first semester you don't have to declare your discipline. You take a class called Inge 101. The grand challenges and you work through all this challenge is, if you're talking about all 14 of them and you think about the scope of the engineer who would be solving those problems.
Sleeping through the lens of a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer, and so on. And then you really get a deep understanding of each discipline before you decide which one you wish to pursue during your degree. At CSU, great program. I would highly recommend it. OK, so we went through just like a lot of information. Now I did want to give that overview though before we jump into some of the academic support resources. So again, like I said here, it seems you were definitely committed to our students success. And again, that comes from faculty, staff.
And your fellow students. So one of the great opportunities. I always like to mention is our engineering residential learning community. So this is a great space to live in to learn with other engineers. As I mentioned before, Engineering is rigorous and it's really great in that first year, especially as you make the transition to college to be surrounded by people who are going to be in a similar situation. You're going to be taking a lot of the same classes, so you can literally go down your Hall, not gonna door for help on a homework problem, and that is a lifesaver sometimes. So this is a great space to live.
We have places to live over at academic village based in our engineering building as well as Edwards Hall, so those are some places that you can look at for living communities, so some of the academic support that centered out of this space includes men touring so we hire student mentors to really share information with incoming students. That's really important to that successful first year. Also, we have tutoring. This is probably one of my most favorite things to mention, so tutoring is so important. Go early.
Go often, that's my motto, and especially when you come into engineering. You might be like, yeah, I got this. You know high school I got this, you know, I you did so well. Top of my class coming into college it can be a different story. An reach out sooner rather than later. And definitely dropping into our academic village. Tutoring is a great way to connect with other engineers, so each night that we offered tutoring, it's a different discipline of engineering. So Sunday to Thursday you're going through all the different disciplines of engineering, so when I might be mechanical, the next might be electrical.
And you can go to your specific night and then the tutors are actually students who just recently finished these classes successfully and so they can help you pick out the information to really study. And they can also breakdown the information in a way that maybe is more digestible for you because your lecture you might pick it up in one way and have some confusion, but then you talk to a student. They might breakdown the problem totally differently than it might fit more with your style of learning. So definitely go to tutoring. Also we have.
Advising and this is dropping advising. This is awesome because if you need to talk to an advisor but you don't have time to schedule an appointment or meet with your one on one advisor, you can go to one of these sessions and get your answers straight away. Also, we have our residents assistance and these are great students who are in the College of engineering and again they can serve as mentors to help you with problems and subjects in engineering and really connect you to other resources and community support services across campus and then some of the resources over in academic village.
Include our design studios so it's worth mentioning that on the 1st floor the engineering building you'll have all of your computer, lab space and these are great faces. They were actually sponsored by Lockheed Martin and they really replicate their own workspaces in their own division because you've got your computers around the side so you can work individually, and then you have a shared space in the middle so you can come together to collaborate. 'cause like we talked about earlier, collaboration is key, so remember engineering is a team sport and this is a great space for you to go downstairs you can access.
All of the software that you're going to need throughout your whole program on these computers is well, so you don't have to buy any additional software once you come into CSU to start your engineering program. It's also worth noting that you can remote desktop into all of this network so you can access all of the software on your own computer in your own time. It own space. Also, we have classrooms down there, so sometimes some of your classes will be taught actually in academic village, so you can literally roll out of bed and go to class, so that's definitely a big perk as well.
Another academic support community is our key academic cluster, so key communities has an academic an area specifically for engineers and really within this community we serve underrepresented students within the College of engineering. So students of color first generation students, women coming into engineering. This offers an additional support mechanism. This is all run by Doctor Anthony Marqise who is my boss and an amazing person. He's our associate Dean for the College of engineering.
He's a first generation student himself and he really is that person and he'll lead your seminar as well. So you have your living space and then, uh, required seminar as well and he'll teach that. And that's just a really great way to connect with faculty on campus. And again, build up your support system. 'cause that's one of the most important things that you can do in your first year at CSU.
Next up I wanna talk about tutoring a little bit more, so we talked about the tutoring over an academic village, so again, this is offered Sunday to Thursday 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM each night is a different discipline of engineering. Go early, go often and this is open to all engineering students. So like we talked about all of this support resources over an academic village, you don't have to live in academic village to access that as an engineering student, you're going to have access with your key card, so don't worry if you're living somewhere else on campus. This is still a space for you.
And really take advantage of all the support resources over there. Also, for your more general education classes. So like your chemistry or physics or calculus, there's tutoring across campus that's free and often times that tutoring can be found through tilt, which is the Institute for learning and teaching. This is a building that's over on the Oval, which is the more historic part of campus, so definitely be sure to take advantage of all of those study group sessions, so there's definitely a lot of tutoring on campus. You just gotta know where to find it. Also, there's additional tutoring around campus through different organizations.
So one of my favorite places to go when I was in my undergrad at CSU was our Native American Cultural Center, and they offer tutoring in their offices, and it's a fantastic way as well to connect with other students who might be in another major than you.
So next time I want to talk about our engineering success center, so this is my favorite place on campus is where our offices typically located. Obviously, I'm coming to you from my Home Office right now, but our engineering success center is definitely the front door to the college. So literally, anything that you need. Please always stop in and see it, and we're right in the Scott Bio Engineering Building on campus, so you can always find us and I just want to talk a little bit briefly about some of the services that we offer out of our office specifically so I see if you were very, very fortunate to have active chapters within our diversity programs in engineering.
And so these are active chapters at the CSU level of national organizations, and so this is a great way to access opportunities for professional development, leadership skills as well as really, really thinking about networking. And so some of those organizations include this Society of women engineers or an SV, which is the National Society of black engineers or shift the Society of Hispanic professional engineers. So it provides an opportunity to connect with students at CSU and beyond.
And it's a really great way to support definitely all of your study, so you'll meet people who are higher up in their programs. And you say you might be a senior in mechanical engineering in your first year, and they can really be one of those mentors in your life for you. Also, they offer a lot of resume workshops, professional development opportunities, and then you could think about becoming an officer as well, which is really going to enhance your leadership skills and something that you can add to your resume and our students within these organizations participate in regional as well as national conferences.
And these conferences are an amazing time to meet other students as well as professionals and a lot of times those professionals want to be your mentors or connect you to internships or Co OPS or full time jobs. So a lot of times these are just great opportunities to connect and really connection is an important piece of Student Success. So definitely make sure that you reach out to folks earlier rather than later. Also, out of our office we do run the engineering residential learning community so all of the services we talked about associated with that space.
Come out of our office so we hire mentors. We hire the tutors on the advisor who does the walk in hours. Her regular office is over in the engineering success center. Also, we run a summer bridge program and so this is for students who are participating in Arkie community program and participating in as well in our empower bridge program. So this is a program that starts a week before the fall semester kicks off. Students have the opportunity to move in early and participate in some team building an network building.
On campus as well as connect to support resources across campus. So this is a wonderful opportunity again really, definitely serving under represented students in the College of engineering. Also we have in our office career services, so this is a big piece of the support at CSU because you're pursuing a degree in engineering to hopefully get a job in engineering and we want to help you do that. So we're very fortunate yes you to have our main general careers center and they put on career fairs. They do resume reviews there an amazing office.
However, is an engineer. It's worth noting that your resume is going to look very different than, say, communication studies student, so it's important to come to engineers in our office to have them review your resume. Make sure you're going to put your best foot forward. Also, we do mock interviews, and we host our very own career fairs. So each semester we host your career fair specifically for engineering students and we bring over 80 recruiters to campus to talk with our students. So this is often a place where you will find your internship, your job, or maybe a Co op as well.
And it's worth noting that nearly 90% of our students will have at least one internship before they graduate. Many of our students will have multiple internships as well, and this is a fantastic way to apply the knowledge that you've gained inside the classroom into the real world.
So In summary, I do want to talk about student success and how students support is always a part of that. So to kind of summarize, we did just talk about our engineering success center. Please reach out to us if there's ever anything we could do if we don't have the answer, we will find you somebody who does so definitely all of our diversity programs are a great way to start our bridge program and definitely take advantage of our career services Next up tutoring and academic village. I cannot emphasize this enough. Go early.
So often and then, of course, our tutoring across campus as well. Another thing I want to talk about and we'll talk about this more in our Q&A, but professor office hours so office hours are really great way to have your questions address as well as build a relationship with your professors. So every professor is required to host office hours, and so this is usually a space that you can go to them, maybe after last lecture and work through a problem. Ask them a specific question, an really connect. So this is a great way to get that support. You might be looking for. Also RTS.
Our teaching assistants will have some office hours as well, so this is a great way to get some support when you're working on assignments are preparing for exams. Also reach out to your community appears it's really important to surround yourself with people who are going to lift you up in your studies and also make sure that you make time for down time and a little bit of fun as well, because that will help to fill up your Cup so you're ready to hit.
On the road running again.
Also, your academic advisors, so these are great people in your life at CSU that will help you every step of the way in making decisions on what classes to take. Should I take this internship right? That internship? These are just people at CSU who really have your best interest in mind. So that was like a lot of information. I do want to summarize by just letting you know that we are all here for you as you start out on your academic journey at CS, go. So with that said, I'm going to ask our students to go ahead and turn on their cameras and I'm going to approve the questions in the chat and will get to answering those.
Jane Miller
03:28:47 PM
If we are going into open engineering will we still have the opportunity to pick biomedical and have dual degrees?
Charlotte George
03:28:50 PM
I am seeking a degree in Environmental Engineering with a focus on air contamination and pollution. Are there courses which focus on this? Your slide mentioned an emphasis on water pollution.
So let's start with some introductions. If you can let us know who you are, what you're studying, what year you're in, where you're from, where you're currently at, and then, um, your favorite memory from your second year. See, you see you.
And we'll go Kylie, Sarah, Camille and Anya.
Charlotte George
03:29:16 PM
More specifically, carbon capture
Jane Miller
03:29:17 PM
Do we take chemistry or physics freshman year?
Zach Marks
03:29:19 PM
If you are undeclared engineering and in Parmalee Residence Hall you able to use the resources?
Jane Miller
03:29:21 PM
Can you talk about Chem-Prep a little? :)
OK, I run my name is Kaylee and I'm currently is going into my 4th year studying computer engineering. I'm from Honolulu HI and I'm currently in Hawaii right now. Um, my favorite memory from sophomore year is probably.
Uhm, I did a day trip in sophomore year. Kind of around Thanksgiving break time and me and my friends actually want to Estes Park and we rented on air B&B there and we had a really awesome time looking at like the fall colors an it was just an awesome break from school but a really great way to see Colorado 2.
Hi, my name is Sarah. I am currently going into my 4th year for biomedical in mechanical engineering. I reside in the Bay Area in California and that's currently where I am right now and then. Let's see here my favorite memory from software year was just really every although I lived with roommates and we're all very busy with their different extracurriculars. In our classes we took a night out of every week to make something and cook together.
And every night that was my favorite night to look forward to and we always did either like Taco night or casserole, nighters, or something like that. So it's really nice to just set aside your class work. Are things that you're doing for a couple of hours while you can spend, you know, connecting with people and interacting with people. So that's fine. Like favorite memory.
Hi everyone, my name is Camille Milo. I am a rising 5th year. I'm going into or doing chemical and biological and biomedical engineering. I am from Walnut CA which is in Southern California which is currently where I'm at an my favorite memory from sophomore year was getting this job. I did the whole hiring process then. And yeah I've loved it ever since.
Max von Thaden
03:31:29 PM
How will professor office hours work with any classes that are online?
Hi everyone my name is ananya I'm going into my third year studying chemical and biological engineering and I'm from India but at the moment I'm in California and my favorite memory I was going to say was the same thing that Camille much it was joining the job I made some really great friends and it's been a great experience.
Yeah, um, sorry just rereading your question really quick, you definitely can go into engineering. Open up. Nope, sorry from engineering open option into a dual degree biomedical engineering. What's really cool is your very first year. What you're mainly going to be taking is an introduction to set engineering, right? So for open option students, what you'll be taking is orange 101 I believe is what the class is called and what that class is is the grand challenges of engineering, which is kind of how you'll learn about the different types of engineering and that will.
Um kind of take place of that engineering 101 class that you will be taking will take place of the introduction level class that you would be taking four introduction to chemical engineering. Introduction to biomedical engineering so it will be right on track to start, you know either your second semester of that year right into whatever classes you would be taking for that specific nature.
Thank you Camille. So definitely a great option and we are working with every Department to make sure that they accept that engineering open option credit. So it depends on what your partner major is. Well, so we might just have to look at that 'cause there may be a little bit of ketchup. Sometimes that students do in that summer time just to make sure they're totally on track when they start their second year is well in their fully declared programs, specially with biomedical engineering since you have the option of choosing from three different partner majors. So sometimes there's a little bit of ketchup, but it's definitely I would say engineering open option is a great opportunity if you're not sure which degree.
Want to pursue yet? So just know you will work with your advisor and get everything situated and Burt who doctor Berg who teaches that class dynamite. I can't say like enough good things about him, he's just fantastic and so much fun to be around as well. He actually invented a folding bicycle and then rides it around different countries just to test it out is pretty cool.
Jacqueline Goldring
03:34:05 PM
Technical electives for environmental, https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ce/environmental-engineering-electives/
Awesome, so let's go to Charlottes question here, so I'm seeking a degree in environmental engineering with a focus on air contamination and pollution. Are there courses which focus on this? So definitely my flight did mention a lot on water pollution. That's definitely the main focus of environmental engineering here. I actually got the list of technical electives, so I drop that in the chat box for you here. Charlotte and I did want to let you know that there's a class on its if 442 and that's air quality engineering, so that may have some of that carbon capture in there.
What I would say is you might wanna look into. Also maybe some minors. So maybe our sustainability minor might have some information that would be applicable to make sure that you kind of have all the skills that you need in order to enter to the industry that you wish. 'cause definitely the focus of environmental at CSU is more on water pollution and sometimes students may opt into actually chemical and biological engineering if they're looking at pollution and emissions control. One other thing that you could do is look at maybe taking a research job or some kind of project.
Happy enerji the powerhouse Energy Institute because they do a lot of work specifically in emissions control. They have this really cool truck. I don't know exactly what it's called, but they fit it all out with different filters that pull in error and then they really look at the different contents of that air quality and they go and do readings all across Oregon Colorado so that could be one of the projects that you get involved in because there's always ways to supplement the learning that you do as part of your curriculum and that might be research internships or like a minor. So definitely looking for different ways to get connected.
And then I will drop my email in here in just a few minutes and we can follow up as well and I'll connect you with the advisor so she can share more information about the specifics in curriculum that might fit in with environmental. Does anybody have anything to add to that from the panel?
Awesome, so the next question would be.
Nicholas Amberg
03:35:53 PM
What are some of the focuses on environmental engineering?
Bridget Ediger
03:35:54 PM
Can you still take ENGR101 if you aren't starting with the open engineering option, but are a little unsure about your chosen major?
03:35:57 PM
When does the math placement and chem prep need to be done? Do you recommend being complete one week before orientation?
03:35:59 PM
how will tutoring and academic support be different in the world of coronavirus?
Oh sorry, I'm sorry. Just going back really quick. I'm kind of talking about technical electives. If you do this. Environmental engineering and Jackie was kind of talking about how some students will pursue a major in chemical and biological engineering if they're interested in that was really cool with these technical electives. Is that you can flip flop across disciplines, so an environmental engineering student may be able to take a chemical and biological engineering class, or you may even be able to flip flop into other department. For me, I'm taking a class in Biomedical Sciences because I kind of want to know.
The science behind the engineering that I'm learning so really look at those technical electives that Jackie drop down. Like I said, they are available for all the different types of majors.
That's an excellent point, Camille. Thank you so much at technical. Electives are a really great way to connect you to where you see yourself, and it can be interdisciplinary as well.
Awesome, so next questions about do we take chemistry or physics in the first year and Anya, do you want to answer this question and then also maybe give a little bit of an overview of what those classes look like, including the lab components in recitation?
Charlotte George
03:36:52 PM
Thank you so much for the information!
Yeah, so you do take chemistry and physics in your first year, but that also depends on just like how your schedule works out and all the classes that you would need to complete to be on track for graduation. So in my case personally I took general chemistry my first year and then physics one and then I took physics to this past year. So my second year at CSU and the way those classes are structured is that for those general classes we call the Macy's which are all University core classes. And so the way those work is that you have a lecture component.
And the lecture is typically around three times per week, so it's like usually Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for an hour, and those are taught by professors, typically, and all the engineering classes are taught by professors at CSU, and so for the lectures you would go in, you would just get all the information and then you have a separate lab component where you get to have the on hand, like hands on training, and really get like the practical knowledge to supplement the theoretical knowledge that you have learned in lecture.
And so the lecture sizes for general classes like physics and chemistry are larger, so you can have about 100 to 300 students in those classes. But then labs are around 20 students and it really gives you an opportunity to work with teams and really understand what working in the industry would be like as well. And apart from that we also have recitations and those also have about 20 students, and those are geared to just ensure that your understanding everything that you're learning in lectures, and so the way those are structured for physics is that you go in every week and you might have like.
Weekly quizzes just to make sure. They again you're like understanding that material, and if you have any doubts, you have the opportunity to ask your teaching assistant which are graduate students pursuing a degree in the field, like their teaching, and so you're able to ask him your questions and just clarify all your doubts and so it's really convenient. Just in case you aren't able to make it office hours, or if you find that you're more comfortable asking the teaching assistant rather than you professor. It just makes it really easy to get in touch with anyone.
Thank you so much and I'm yet and so Next up sad question. So if you're in undeclared engineering, anim Parmalee residence Hall, are you able to use the resources? So definitely so a few things to know is that you do have to be an engineering to have keycard access over to the Engineering Hall in AV, but you could definitely make friends with folks who are in engineering so you can access that space, get to know other students in the College of engineering. Also, it is worth noting that with undeclared an engineering.
We do have a pilot program that were running where we have this few spots available in inj 101 and so that's our engineering open option class and so within this program if you take your math placement tool, you complete that and you place into calculus one. I would highly suggest that you talk to your undeclared advisor and let them know that you're interested. Maybe in taking engineering open option on that into 101 the grand challenges in your first semester, 'cause That's a really another great opportunity to connect to their resources.
That you'll you know you'll need in order to succeed with an engineering. It's a great way to meet professors and other students as well to just really boost up your community and academic support network. So definitely talk to your advisor about that opportunity. Do you all have any other pieces of information to add there?
OK, awesome cool. So James asking if we can talk a little bit about Kim prep so.
I should I go with Sarah here? We haven't heard from Sarah in a minute. Do you wanna kinda do an overview for cimpress my piece of advice is to start it early.
Max von Thaden
03:40:57 PM
please repeat the class sizes for intro to chem and physics
Evan Custer
03:41:00 PM
When will be register for classes? Is that after we talk with an advisor?
That's what I actually I've I've been doing. Calls in calling of other prospective students and when they ask about camp Rep, that is my number one piece of advice is start early because what actually loved about the whole chemistry Department at CSU is that they use something called Alex, which I'm pretty sure is what your chem prep is through. That's what my Chem Prep was through three years ago, so it's a great learning program because it will show you the information, teach you about it, and then it'll quiz you and make you do a lot of practice problems if you get those wrong, it'll do these kind of practice problems that.
You know you're specifically struggling with or if you're getting them right then it will give you harder ones, and then once you get those then you've completed that challenge or you completed that topic and it's really good, because every single type of practice and every single type, that way that it teaches you is personalized for the way that you learn so little about Chem Prep, we're telling our engineering students to try to finish that by June 3rd, which is kind of tomorrow. But I wouldn't stress Jackie. Jackie can tell you if you should stress about that.
Like or not, that's a really hard deadline, but definitely start working on it as soon as possible. Just because it is so long and the whole reason for it is because we want y'all to be successful in chemistry as it's kind of challenging. It's very time consuming and a lot of people, engineers and non engineers have trouble getting into college the first year in having to spend that.
That amount of time on one subject like chemistry, so it kind of gets you used to Alex, which is it takes a little while to get used to that, and it gets used to how the homework will look and then it will also get you prepared to step right into chemistry and Start learning foundational topics that we teach in that class. So that's kind of what can prep is a little bit. It's super useful, so I took notes in my notebook and that's kind of how I started my chemistry class. So if you wanted to take notes, I highly suggest that as well.
That's all I have for example.
Thank you yeah. So um math placement tool has to be completed tomorrow, so make sure if you haven't done your placement for math, do it tonight. Knock it out and get it done and then Kim prep. You've gotta get it done at least one week before your actual orientation date. So that's the goal because it is lengthy and that's why we just say go ahead and try to knock out bit by bit. Don't leave it until like the night before, 'cause you'll be up stretching and trying to work through all the problems. So definitely start now and try to get that knocked out.
So I hope that helps. If you have any questions as well, there is an orientation email address. I think Camille has that saved somewhere well will drop that in the chat box as well and this is a great way to reach out to all of our orientations asked. If you have any specific questions or concerns before your date, definitely reach out to them.
Right, so Max is asking about how professor office hours will work with any classes that are offered online. Fantastic questions, so we definitely figured that out this last semester as we transition to remote learning in the spring semester. And so I want to talk a little bit with Kylie about office hours on line and kind of what those look like.
Sarah Dann
03:43:35 PM
When is the math exam/prep due and if you tested out of lower level comp classes and have scores on file do you need to do anything for composition?
Bridget Ediger
03:43:39 PM
I was told that the Math Placement Tool isn't required for students with AP credit for Calculus. Should I complete it just to be sure, or will I be okay without it?
Camille Milo
03:43:57 PM
orientation email: engr-orientation@colostate.edu
Definitely so in general on on line or in person. Office hours are really determined by The Professor. Whatever times work for them. When we went on line I did have. I did have a professor that decided not to host office hours but decided to just give us his phone number and his email address and he called it like a 24/7 within reason. Kind of reply rate kind of a thing so different professors will do different things. But in general what I found was a lot of professors.
Would just say well when we were meeting in person I had office hours Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 AM to 11:00. So I'm just going to host the same office hours and I'll give you a Microsoft Teams link for the meeting if that's what you're interested in. Or as always, they became really, really flexible with just meeting outside of their designated office hours for whenever students were available at that time. Given that some students went home and the time difference is so they were really flexible with all of it.
Daniel Medina
03:44:41 PM
if we are transferring into CSU with our general ed chem and math classes already completed do I still need to complete math placement and chem prep?
Thank you Kylie, and sometimes actually I've talked to a few students who said actually going to office hours on line was easier than going in person 'cause it can be, especially in that first you know year. It's a little intimidating sometimes to stop into your office hours for your professor, but if you're just dropping them like a note on line, or if you're just meeting on mine, it's a good introduction to that as well. So no matter what, however, classes are offered, there's going to be a component of office hours for your professors, 'cause that's a really great way just to connect.
I sent to the next question. Here is about what are some of the focuses on environmental engineering, so I know we don't have our environmental engineering ambassador with us today. But some of those things to think about definitely include, you know, water pollution, water treatment, you know. Really think about site remediation. If there's a huge oil spill, you know it's going to be environmental engineers that go out there to clean up. Also, thinking About Air quality in control as well as a piece of the puzzle for environmental engineers. So there's a ton of different places that students are working.
I definitely wanted the biggest areas. Of course for us is clean water and so thinking through how to provide clean water to people all across the world. And that's a huge thing that we're facing. That's definitely one of our grand challenges of engineering. I know Anon, yet you've been working on a project through engineers Without Borders. Did you want to talk about that a little bit and your involvement in that project and what the work is focused on?
Yeah, I can do that. So engineers not borders, um, really works on like different projects and so for the CSU chapter, one of the ones that we've been working on is a project in El Salvador and it's really focused on just making sure that the communities there have access to clean water. And as a chemical and biological engineer, that's really given me the opportunity to learn more about like civil and environmental engineering, which I wouldn't necessarily be able to do for my classes. And so it's a great opportunity to learn different skills and really expand on the skill set.
And so I would definitely recommend researching the different organizations that CSU offers, because a lot of them really give you opportunities to get involved in different projects and so that way if you're interested in something, and perhaps your class might not cover it, you can still have an extra resource that really enables you to still focus on your interest and still expand on that at the same time.
Awesome, thank you and Anya. Alright, we've got great question here. So can you still take into 101 if you aren't starting with the open option, but our little unsure about your chosen major. So this is a really great question. Um, there's not as solid answer. I know that last year this happened for one student and because they were really interested in taking into 101, my recommendation to you is so Camille did drop the orientation email address in their email orientation, an address it to Alice.
Allis, because she's our advisor for engineering, open option and so she would be able to really connect 'cause it would have to be down to the approver approval of the professors or doctor Bert because it depends on a number of factors, right? It depends on how many students are going to be registering for this class. So how many students are in engineering open option? Is their capacity to do so? Is there going to be a scheduling conflict between engineering open option and then your intro to engineering class? So there's definitely a lot of things to consider, but definitely.
Camille Milo
03:48:04 PM
Engineering Open Option advisor: Allis Werkmierster
It's worth having a deeper conversation 1 on one with an advising stuff. So great opportunity though, and I'm really excited to hear that you want to learn more about all the disciplines of engineering.
All right, the next question here is about does the math placement Kim prep need to be done? Do you recommend being complete one week before orientation? So definitely math placement tool should be done really tomorrow and then can prep one week before you come for orientation.
The next question is how old tutoring academic support be different in the world of coronavirus. So great question, and so our students on the panel. Do you want to talk about? Did any of you have an opportunity to access like tutoring or support whilst we are online in the spring semester?
I see Ananya shaking her head and Anya, do you want to kind of take that question and see what that looks like in a different time?
Yeah, um, so this semester. I personally didn't use a lot of the tutoring academic support resources, but I did not see how they were structured because I still registered for them just in case I did have any questions and so we haven't Institute on campus called tilt, which stands for the Institute of learning and teaching and the way they structure it for that is we use canvas on which we have like all of our classes and you can see all the assignments you have for a class and everything.
And so on. There you would be registering for a tilt course for a specific class that you want to tutoring in. So personally, I signed up for physics tutoring and it was just a really great way to make sure that you were able to like ask questions on the discussion feature on there. And apart from that they also use Microsoft Teams to make sure that if you did have any questions they had pewters available at specific times that you could reach out to and you know just get all your questions clarified at once. And so if you had an assignment due the next day, it would just be really convenient and for the.
Tearing we also, I believe for the academic village tutoring that went online, and so, as Jackie mentioned, Alice Werkmeister, who you know, really works to ensure like academic support for engineering students. She sent out emails just making sure that students knew that they could contact her if they would still like that support, and so if you sent out an email with the class that you wanted to port four and just like all the questions that you had, a tutor would reach out to you and so they just really make sure that you still had all those resources on line in one way or another.
Thank you and Anya. Yeah that was super helpful. I know we were trying to figure out what is tutoring look like now that were online and being able to share that information. So allisons out a weekly email to students with all of the updates. So that's a really important email to read every Monday and then. That's how the information was shared about academic village tutoring that specific for engineers, so we will always work to be there an I would definitely say my experience so I'm in grad school are just finishing grad school and my advisor is in my faculty members were always available online no matter if I was contacting them at 10:00 PM.
Or, you know, 6:00 AM. So I was really surprised with that hum. And you know, it made it feel like we're not in this alone, which is super important.
Alright, oh, and then Max is asking to repeat this class sizes for Kim Ann Phys. Did you wanna do that really quick and Anya since you were talking about that?
Jared Boschman
03:51:12 PM
If you've already earned college credit for higher-level math courses do you still have to take the math placement?
Danielle Lewis
03:51:18 PM
After taking the Math Placement Exam, when should we take the "Proctored Math Challenge Exam."
Jane Miller
03:51:19 PM
What should we do if we are confused on what classes to take freshman year? Will they talk with us during orientation or should w contact an advisor before?
Yeah, so it'll typically be 100 to 300 students in my experience. I believe my chemistry class had around 100 students and then my physics class had around 1:50 to 200. So it really depends on the general classes that you're taking. The biology classes tend to be a lot bigger. Just because a lot more majors around campus take those, so my biggest class size was definitely for biology, which was about two 300 students.
Right and then in your lab, in the recitation, there are 20 students, so definitely doable sound.
Thank you, sorry alright let's see. OK, so Evans asking about when we register for classes is that after we talk with an advisor. So typically you know we do in person orientation and then that's when the first day is like a a welcome and introduction. And then on day two you meet with your advisors. So how it's structured now since everything is gone virtual, you'll have like a video component and stuff that you do on line and then you'll be in a small group with your advisor for your orientation date and that's where you'll actually select your classes in Camille. I know you've worked as an orientation leader. Do you want to talk about that experience a little bit?
Yeah, yeah. So I actually uhm actually have a brother who's gonna go through it as well, so that's kind of interesting. But the way that that works, yeah, you'll you'll be able to talk to your advisor while registering for classes and then at that registration you will also be able to register for classes so it's nice is that your advisor will be there. Kind of walking you through your class is kind of showing you like cool 5 already taken AP Calc ABI. I think it was called.
This is the next class that you can move on and was really nice and I don't know if they'll do it this year, but they will have your plan of study kind of already laid out for you, so you kind of know what classes to take. So if you are kind of worried about what classes are going to be taking freshman year, don't worry. We kind of all know what classes are going to be taking because you'll be taking kind of similar classes across all engineering platforms, which is really nice. But however, if you you know in order to ensure that you will walk out of that orientation date with the classes that you are supposed to be taking to ensure that you will move on.
Not your spring semester classes. Do make sure that you complete can prep and math placement like we can't stress that enough, and especially since working orientation, I can't stress that enough because there were so many people who came in and said that they had completed it. But they completed it. Yet the day before. And so it wasn't in our system yet. So Ram Web, which is where you register for classes, didn't let you register for Calc two or Calc 3 or whatever it may be.
That's kind of how that will workout, but you will definitely be talking to either current student or a advisor about your classes.
Jacqueline Goldring
03:54:00 PM
compostion, https://composition.colostate.edu/students/placement/
Thank you Camille awesome. So the next questions about composition and so I'm going to go ahead and share link here to the placement here. So this is gotta flow chart associated so I would definitely say to go through that and see if you need to do anything for composition. If you go through that flow chart, definitely an if you have questions there's FA Q on that website as well, but email orientation just to be short since they're the experts in that area and each specific on situation can be a little bit different. I would just advise go through that flow chart.
Go through the FA QS on that website and then if you still have questions, email the orientation folks.
And then nice and handy the orientation emails right there. Thank you miss Camille. Us next question is if we were transferring into CSU with our general Ed Kimman math classes already completed, do I still need to complete math placement and Kim prep? Great questions. So there's there's some nuances to this. So it depends how those classes transferred. If they're already on your file, an evaluated and the advisors can view them. The best way to check all of this information is going to be to email the orientation website.
Because some classes you might have taken chemistry but you wanna make sure it transfers to see is you as Kim 111 one 12 which is your required class and for your math you wanna make sure it transfers. Is math 160 'cause That's your calculus. So you just want to make sure about you have those things. So I would say this afternoon email the orientation step. You can feel free to copy me on that message as well 'cause I have access to a database that can check transfer credits. Also you can have a look at that yourself on transferaladji.com and especially if you've gone to a Colorado or California school.
We have a lot of that information in that database that's accessible to you. You have to create an account, but it's completely free, but the other big piece of it is that the evaluation really needs to be on file, 'cause That's how you'll get cleared for registration. And so again, I would just. I would mostly advise you to email orientation just to be on the safe side and do that sooner rather than later, and then Camille's got the open option advisor that's Alice. Thank you again Camille. And then Jerry is asking if you already have earn college credit. So do you take the math placement? Same, same situation.
Tyson Skanderbeg
03:56:22 PM
Are all freshman classes that size?
Email orientation just to double check the transferability of your credit and that all of your transcripts are on file. It's super important that you send official transcripts with all of your grades on it. So if you've been at a Community College, are you done dual enrollment? You've got us in those transcripts. In order to have credit on your file. So super important there.
Next one here is after taking the math placement exam. Should we then take the Procter and math challenge exam so this is if you may be having placed directly into math 160 so you have to complete. I believe it's 117 one, 18124 and 126.
Is there another one I'm missing?
I think that's all of them, but if, say, 'cause sometimes like there may be components that you miss like say you got all of them except for math 124 you can go in and do the math challenge exam. So just depends on what your result is from the math placement tool.
I know it's kinda complicated, but any questions email Alice at that orientation website.
And if OK, what should we do if we were confused on what classes to take freshman year, will they talk it? Talk with us during orientation? Or should we get in contact with an advisor before I would say either way, definitely orientation is going to be the time to have your questions and concerns address, or you can reach out to an advisor in, uh, you know now and I'll drop a link to all of the academic advising staff here in a minute. And then we also have the composition link in there. So Jane, I will drop in the advisors information and you can.
You can definitely reach out and then share. It has something to say. Well so I look that up.
Jacqueline Goldring
03:58:06 PM
www.engr.colostate.edu/content/academic-advising
Danielle Lewis
03:58:10 PM
Is there a deadline for the Proctored Math Challenge Exam?
Sarah Dann
03:58:11 PM
is it a problem if i cant get all of my credits transferred before orientation?
I do wow, you know I I fully understand that this can be a very stressful time, especially for orientation number. When I went into organization I turned to Shannon Wagner, which you've probably heard of her. She works a lot with our engineering, freshman and our prospective students as well and she just like put her head on my shoulders like it's going to be OK and they'll walk you through it. Don't don't worry, it'll be OK, but if you are still a little scared or just nervous, you can actually go on our future students website. So actually just looked up CSU future engineering students.
And then you can keep scrolling down and you'll find all the majors. And if you have declared a major and you're going to register for classes for that major, you can click on. Usually it's a curriculum guide or curriculum map, then it'll actually tell you every single class that you should take as a freshman, and then from there to five years. So I feel like if you talk to any of us, we all have our class is mapped out. Probably in Excel sheet, and that's from that list. So those will tell you what classes that you need and what classes you should look for. And then you also have your advisors as well.
Jacqueline Goldring
03:58:48 PM
https://catalog.colostate.edu/general-catalog/
Before and during and after orientation. If you have any additional questions.
Thank you Sarah. Yeah, I think that's really important to know is to definitely take a deep breath and no like.
We're all in this together. Your advisors got your back orientation is gonna run smooth. I know it's different this year, but it's gonna you know, your your advisors always have your best interest at heart. Like honestly, my advisor at CC, I came in as a transfer student like he literally saved my bacon an I still talk to him this day 'cause he figured out like a perfect schedule for me every single semester, you know. And if somebody that you'll go and talk to and develop a relationship with as well during your time at CSU and then just for information I dropped in the advisor.
Link so you can look at all the advisors for each specific Department and then also our general course catalog like Siri was talking about. You can go on here and navigate directly to your degree completion map so you can get a better idea of what classes you'll be taking throughout the duration of your program.
Evan Custer
03:59:56 PM
Is there a deadline for the Pre-Calc Tutorial?
So next question is about is there a deadline for the proctored math challenge exam? I would say still try to get that done by the 3rd. It's just because then that will help to support you registering for classes on time and just ensuring that you are calc one ready. And that's the goal for engineers across the board. Is that you register for math 160 in that first semester.
And then she was asking is it a problem if I can't get all my credits transferred before orientation? It's not a problem. what I would say is definitely have your transcripts with you though, or be able to send them to your advisor so they can view that information and have an idea of what. If you're working like on summer classes, are you maybe your Springs transcripts aren't finalized yet? Definitely just have a copy and that could be an unofficial version as well that you'll share with your advising staff during orientation is what typically happens is coming in as a transfer student or with dual enrollment credit.
Once you send in your official transcript, it does usually take about 30 business days to have credits evaluated in, like they get really busy in the registers office, especially in the summer time, so you know everybody understands that might not be feasible. Does anybody have anything to add about transfer credits or bringing over AP work?
Just really quick. I think we skipped tysons question asking if all clap freshman class sizes are the same size, so I'll answer that really really quick. But basically yes, freshman class size is typically are going to be the largest class classes that you'll take in all four years. That being said, most of those general classes that we talked about earlier the calculus the OR any math, any science like physics or chemistry, those are going to be your largest class sizes just because.
Those are the classes that all majors, even outside of engineering, might have to take just because they have to cover that kind of credit when you're looking at like your major specific class. So if you were in mechanical engineering, so your Mac 102 class.
That class size will be fairly large, but it will be somewhere closer to like 100 range rather than like a 300 range. But really it just kind of depends on what class are you taking. If you're taking like an honors seminar in your freshman year, that class is going to be really small, maybe around like 2030 students at most.
Asking you are you mention honors and an onion. Do you want to talk about our honors program really quick? I know that's not a question in our chat box here, but do you wanna talk about both tracks of the honors program at CSU?
Yeah, I can do that, so there's 2 tracks to the Honors Program. Typically if you're coming in straight from high school, the track that you would usually go into is called track one and that's if you don't have like any credits or you have, I believe less than 30 credits coming into the honors program and then track two is a program in which, like. Let's say you're already accius you, and then you've gotten like 30 credits of workload done, and then you would still like to be in the Honors Program. Then you can apply and get in, and so that's what I did because coming in from high school I wasn't sure if I wanted to take on like that extra workload.
I just wanted to give myself time and then see how engineering was and get involved in organizations before deciding anything like that, but after about like 1 1/2 to two years, I decided that I didn't want to get involved in the Onyx program and it was just a really easy transition. I will say the main difference though is that track one is a track in which you take more honor seminars and So what those are are just more like honor specific classes that might not necessarily be related to your major as much. And then in track too you can honors option classes and so that would be.
Tyson Skanderbeg
04:03:37 PM
So freshmen are living in residence but doing online classes with the covid rules? Trying to understand why we would pay the fees for living on campus when we have few to no in person classes. Thoughts?
You can use like your engineering, so your major specific classes to count towards the honors program, so it just really depends on what you would like to do as well and what your interests are. But I'm in the program now and I definitely love it so and I'm also currently like doing a project in which we're writing parts of a textbook that's going to be published, so definitely like gives you a lot of harbor charities, but at the same time it depends on your workload and time management and things like that.
Thank you honey, I appreciate that overview. So Evans asking about the deadline for the pre calc tutorial, June 3rd? Yeah, just try to get everything done that's related to math placement by tomorrow if you can. It just gives also what the advisors doing the orientation staff do before y'all come to orientation as they get all of your checks sheets prepared for you. And so the sooner that all this information is on file, this sooner that your check sheet can be prepared. So definitely get it done sooner rather than later and really try by tomorrow.
As an and and then, we've got another question for Tyson here. I'm sorry for skipping over your previous question, so freshmen are living in residence, but doing online classes with covad rules, trying to understand why we would pay fees for living on campus when we have few to no in person classes spot so tight it so we will. There's a email in information from the president's office which I will put a link to in here. So the goal is that for all first year classes, those are going to be in person, so that's.
Ananya Vajapayajula
04:05:19 PM
CSU's COVID-19 recovery plan: https://president.colostate.edu/covid-19-update-from-president-mcconnell/
https://safety.colostate.edu/coronavirus/
The goal for the University that they've set forward right now, and so I don't the you know, you shouldn't really be taking very many on line classes in your first year. Some maybe a hybrid. So you're taking maybe on some pieces of your class on line, but classes will look very different, though in years past, even though they're in person, they're going to have to offer multiple sections. So like we were talking about, class size is very big sometimes, especially when you're looking at General Chemistry and physics and calculus so.
They're gonna try to really I think you and Anya she put the recovery plan in there thank you a man So what they're trying to do is allow for social distancing in the classroom so they're going to offer multiple sections so classes will probably be offered up until 8 or even later in the evening and there has been discussion about maybe Saturday classes that still uncertain right now they haven't ruled out the full logistics of their plan but the goal is all first year 100 level classes will be in person instruction for the fall semester.
What is different is well is after fall break on students will not really resume in person classes leading up to final exams and then winter break. So that's the other piece that's a little bit different as well. But definitely there was an email and sent out by the president. I think we got it on Friday last week. So as a really good resource with lots of information in there. I know I've read it once. I could definitely do with reading it again, but definitely keep on, you know, in touch with the website in any of those emails that come out directly from the president.
Office and so that's the goal. So hopefully living on campus should still you know, uhm, make sense. You know there will be all the support, the resources the dining halls are are planning and you know being fully functional as well. It just might look different. I don't know how the residence halls will exactly place people and to allow for social distancing, so they will just be different protocols. An measures in place as we move into the fall semester and do any of our current students have things that they want to add or things that they've been thinking about as we move into the next year?
Academic year yeah Camille.
Tyson Skanderbeg
04:06:57 PM
Thank you
Oh, I'm sorry, um, but yeah, I think living on campus like Jackie was saying is gonna be really beneficial regardless of kind of what they're planning with it. Just because living on campus was a great way for me to build my my group of people to study with, I still study with the same people who I have studied with since freshman year, and that was really just because I lived on campus. I didn't live in the engineering residence Hall. I lived in Corbett, which is across the way from engineering. But I was able to make my track out to engineering really sit down with the people who.
I still study with and now we kind of have a good way of studying that. Like every time we have an exam we kinda know what we're going to do and a plan of action. So yeah, I would say that if you do have the option to live on campus, whether it's in the engineering residence Hall or not, definitely try to or try to be on campus just 'cause you'll be able to meet people in your major or with an engineering where you'll be able to form those study groups.
Yeah, and I also just want to say that this whole, like Colvin, pandemic is like really uncertain and kind of scary. But I think we can all agree when I say that CSU is really known for its community. I mean one of the big things you hear is Rams take care of Ramzan. So during this whole time when we were transitioning on to online classes, it was really scary and it was really uncertain. But our professors were there and they were really flexible about everything. I've had people from.
All different organizations. Jackie reached out to me. Some people from Pacific Club reached out to me, and so there's a lot of really big community that's going to be there to still support you. And even though, like we're all kind of learning last semester when we went on line, I feel like we have a really good basis of where to start, and so even when we do go on line after Thanksgiving break, which will only be for two more weeks before finals, there's still going to offer like a lot of different like academic tutoring, support and things like that, especially leading up to finals, and I think.
Jacqueline Goldring
04:09:05 PM
My email is jacqui.goldring@colostate.edu. Please reach out anytime. :)
It won't be too uncertain now this time going around.
Thank you for adding that Kylie. I know I think we learned a lot in the spring semester that will definitely carry forward and it's actually created a lot of innovation is what I've seen on behalf of especially our faculty and how to move classes on line on an really overall make a lot, of course, is really more accessible as well, so that's been an exciting piece of the puzzle. And also to see how research so functions on CSU's been at the cutting edge for a lot of the code research as well, which is pretty awesome, so there's definitely watch still happening on campus. Although it may look different, I think the.
Great thing to know and both you know, Camille and Kylie and everybody on the panel has talked to the community and just knowing that were always in this together as well in any questions or concerns. You know 'cause it is a great time of uncertainty. Just know that you have people that you can reach out to no matter what. All the folks in this picture actually work in our office. So this is just like a little tiny fraction of the community of support that you already have at CS go. So I'm going to see are there any final questions? I think I think we've answered.
Sarah Verderame
04:10:26 PM
My number is (720) 580-1589? if you all need anything!
All of them. If we missed anything I did drop my email in here so you can drop me a line anytime but just to wrap up on a high note here, I do want to ask if everyone, UM, once did provide one piece of advice to incoming students. Or maybe your favorite resources. Well, since this is all about academic support and will go in the order of Kylie Sarah, Camille, in and Anya.
So my advice for incoming freshmen is just to know that it's OK to fail, and it's OK to mess up a little bit because we're all kind of starting to learn this, especially given the situation. But I came into college.
Where when I was in high school I would try really hard and I'd get the grades and I I put in the effort and I'd get the reward. And so it was really different coming into college where I would try really hard and I'd get isyana test or adiana test and it be really Downing. But I learned that.
Even though you fail, sometimes everyone is going to be around that. You do support you an it's a really awesome thing to start from the bottom, but slowly rise up and learn how to kind of deal with like College Learning 'cause it is really different than high school learning.
Jacqueline Goldring
04:11:44 PM
Fall plan from the president's office, https://safety.colostate.edu/fall-2020-framework/
Yeah, it's a really good one, Kylie. I think a lot of us are so used to doing so well in high school and pushing ourselves where it's kind of like well, what's just what's happening. But uh, I would say my piece of advice is build that community right off the bat. Meet people with compassion and be interested in their lives and really be open minded to everyone around you because trust me it you'll need him. So like make friends and let people in because that's the biggest part and that's what's so great about CS OS.
Everyone is so friendly. I've got people here who I thought I would never have gotten along with where we're great friends. We hang out all the time so and then they help me with homework and I help them and you just grow together so you know they say High School is old, period of growth will college I think is like 10 times more than that. So definitely find your community, stick with them and take care of each other because that's what really matters in the long run.
Yeah, my advice would be, and this isn't just kind of and now, but um, throughout your college career an beyond. Never be afraid to ask questions. Kind of applicable to you right now, as incoming students or students are trying to figure out where to go. You know especially because we can't really travel anywhere. This is a great time for you to really reach out. You know Jackie dropped her email, Sarah dropped her phone number phone number. I'll drop my email here in a little bit, but the only the really way to kind of know what a campus or what will is like in that community that we keep saying.
Is once you kind of feel it for yourself and by doing that you know you'll be able to kind of see. This is what everyone's kind of talking about and the only way to really get that is to email students really asked, you know what is? How is engineering? Is it really that hard or whatever your questions are like? Don't be afraid to ask students. Don't be afraid to reach out to Jackie. Don't be afraid to reach out to any social media.
But you know a college social media. They really just want to help you and kind of get you to where you're at. So don't be afraid to ask questions.
Kailee Mitsuyasu
04:13:42 PM
My email is kaimits@rams.colostate.edu or my phone number is 970-329-2955! If you have any questions feel free to contact me!
Yeah, I would definitely agree with Camille's. I'm going along sort of like reaching out to resources. I would also say really think about what it is that you want to be doing like in University. In terms of like set goals for yourself but not just in terms of like academics but also if there's like an activity that you always wanted to try whatever it is. Just something to keep you like mentally happy as well. Just make sure that you're taking care of yourself first and foremost because that's what you know important just to make sure that you are supporting yourself during your education as well.
So that's like researching the community like researching the city of Fort Collins. Seem like things you can do there, or the organisations you could get involved in. Or if you're looking to like research, whatever it is just like knowing your priorities and setting those up for yourself and researching and making sure you have the resources you need is something that's really important. So just take care of yourself and do that as well.
Camille Milo
04:14:31 PM
My email is cgmilo@rams.colostate.edu. Please feel free to contact me. I can't wait to answer any questions you have or share about how great CSU is! :)
Oh, thank you so much. That is all wonderful advice. Makes my heart very happy to hear from each of you and thank you so much for joining us on the panel today. So round of applause for our panel is our students are fine. Lovely students. Yeah, just to know is I did look at the email from the president on Friday and then I dropped in the fall 2020 framework. So definitely have a look at that website as well for more specific information on fall course delivery. Also our students have dropped their email and communication.
Ananya Vajapayajula
04:15:12 PM
Feel free to contact me at ananya02@rams.colostate.edu!
Either phone or you know any of those Contacts and things. I don't know. Information in the chat box and so feel free to like reach out again, we're here for you and this is definitely an exciting journey. So we want to celebrate you as well as you start and then you know, join the Ramlee so Rams take care of Rams and that starts now. And so definitely all of you who tuned in today. Thank you so much. Don't hesitate to reach out. Please take time to care for yourself and your loved ones during these times of uncertainty.
So thanks for tuning in everyone and go Rams.