Live Virtual Tour: Engineering Open Option

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Yeah, well, First off welcome everyone to the open option tour here for the College of engineering which is super exciting and so as students of open option. I know that you were interested in a kind of all the different types of engineering and so that's what we will go through. We're going to show you the labs and facilities and kind of what your your route is going to look like here within not only open option, but when you declare your major, you're either the end of your first semester or the end of your first. You're kind of whenever you can decide.

What made you want to do? But we want to kind of give you a little insight into all the different types of majors here at CSU. And if you do have any questions like we said, you can go and put those questions in the chat there, but I should probably do this one thing and introduce myself. I am Camille. I am a fifth year studying chemical and biological and Biomedical Engineering, which is our dual degree here at CSU. My pronouns are she, her and hers, and I'm originally from Southern California, so super glad that you are here.

And how y'all? My name is Kate I go by she, her hers I'm in my third year studying chemical and biological engineering. I also have a minor in Spanish and I hail from Boulder Co which is where I am right now. Hence the cat on my lap.

Um, so like, um, you said, if you have any questions at all, feel free to pop up in the chat. Will stop and answer those as they come in, so anything that's on your mind let us know. But to kick us off, welcome to our virtual campus. So Fort Collins Co is Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Co. We are an hour and a half North of Denver. An hour to an hour and a half North of Denver. Really, really beautiful city. Fort Collins is amazing. Csus campus is very close to the mountains, which you can kind of see in the background of our photos.

We've also got a background for photo. We've got the mountains. We are also really close to Horsetooth Reservoir, which is a ginormous reservoir real close to campus. So you can go boating. You can go hiking, hammocking, swimming, lots of outdoor activities. We are a Colorado school, so if you're an outdoorsy person you are sure to find a home at CSU. Also, our campus itself is lovely. We have a ton of open green space as you can see in these photos. On the top you'll see that's one of our intramural fields, so you can use that for.

Intramural sports and if you can see, there's that tiny little blue Spec that's our campus lagoon. It just got finished this year. It got renovated so it existed before, but it got renovated and revamped and it is absolutely beautiful. Spot to study to hang up a hammock and hang out on a nice warm day. Also on that lower photo that is our new campus stadium. It's called Canvas Stadium. It was completed in 2017 I believe, so it's still pretty new.

And it's, uh, it's really cool to get in there on game day and have lots of people in non pandemic circumstances. Of course cheering on the good old ram team so a little bit more about Fort Collins and CSU. We're also really close to Old Town Fort Collins, which is kind of like our downtown area, super sweet area. Lots of restaurants, lots of little shops, local shops, and if it looks, it might feel a little familiar. If you ever get to visit campus. And the reason for that is if you've ever been to Disneyland. Main Street Disneyland is based off of.

Old Town Fort Collins. So that's kind of our claim to fame. It's pretty cool, so it feels pretty familiar when you walk down our cobbled lanes.

We're also a very green campus and a Green City. Fort Collins is consistently rated on like a second in the nation on bike friendly cities in the USI think we're second to DC most years, so that's pretty cool. We've got bikes bike lanes bike, as that's what they're called all over campus all over Fort Collins. Very big, friendly space. We are also open to all sorts of wheels on campus, so you'll see people with rollerblades with skateboards. With scooters we have those electric scooters that just got introduced to campus like last year.

Um, so you'll see those around you. Also see, like I said, lots and lots of bikes.

Also, we're very bus friendly community. We have an Awesome Transit Center on campus that will get you connected to all of the bus systems in Fort Collins. There are buses that will take you to Old Town that will take you around for columns that will take you around campus that will take you all the way from Fort Collins through Loveland through Longmont into Boulder. There is also a bus that will take you straight from campus to die a so if you're a out of state students and you don't have a car on campus, you don't need to worry about getting home. There is a bus. It's called the groom that will take you from campus today and back again so.

Little bit of worry off your mind if you're an out of state student.

I think moving on we can start digging into our engineering buildings so we have two engineering buildings on campus. This one is the Scott Bio Engineering Building and we'll talk about more about the engineering building a little bit later. Scott Bio Engineering is our newer building. It was completed in 2015 and you may have noticed in your somewhere in your process of looking into CSU that our College of Engineering is actually fully titled The Walter Scott Junior College of engineering, reason for that being Mr Walter Scott Junior is.

A CSU alum in civil engineering thing. He graduated in 1953 and just recently he donated a grand total of 53 point $3,000,000 to the College of engineering at CSU, which I believe is the largest gift in University history. So we went ahead and renamed the college after him. If any of you listening want to donate $54,000,000, we might rename the college after you. But for now we are the Walter Scott Junior College of engineering. Pardon the cat. I'm sorry.

So with that donation from Mr Walter Scott, we were able to build some really awesome resources on campus like this. Building a good chunk of that donation also does go to scholarships and we'll talk a little bit more about that towards the end of the presentation. So getting inside of the building, there are some really great resources in there, not least of which is the student or the engineering success center. So this is where Camille and I work on a normal day when we be on campus. This is a great hub for resources for engineers.

For professional development and for student success. So they offer all kinds of services, including but not limited to resume reviews. So if you're looking to apply for a job and you're not quite sure what your resume supposed to look like, you could go to the Career Center on campus. Or you could come to the engineering success center and the reason being we have some of these engineering specific resources because an engineer's resume might look a little bit different than, say, an interior designers resume, or like a journalism students resume because we're engineers. We kind of like.

The block text the bullet points get straight to the point. Let me be able to skim it and get the gist. So the engineering center knows what that looks like. They know what employers are looking for and they can help you both design and kind of figure out what content to put on your resume. We also do mock interviews, so if you're looking to interview the company, whether it be a phone interview in person or an online, they can help you with some of your body language. Responding to questions kind of getting your answers down and you will not believe the confidence that I can give you. Having a dry run through with somebody who's giving you tips before you actually go in.

For your interview, it helps a ton. So engine accessory also offers that. I think the all of our diversity programs and engineering there also housed in the success center, so that includes societies like the Society of women in engineering or the ship, the Society of Hispanic professional engineers are nisby, the National Society of Black Engineers. The list goes on and on all of those offices are housed in the SC. Also, I think the coolest thing I saved it for last that the The Engineering Center does is we put on an engineering specific career fair.

Every fall and every spring. So the CSU career office will also put on a career fair, but it's for every major across the University. So what are career fair looks like with vengeance? Essener is a little bit more specific, it's just engineers. So we invite 80 around 80 plus engineering companies to come to campus. Or in the case of this year, come to a virtual event. So these are companies from Colorado from Fort Collins from the US. Sometimes internationally they'll come to campus.

And network with our students, and so you can go in there with a resume in an elevator pitch and Start learning about what kind of companies are out there, what they're looking for in their students, and maybe what you're looking for in an employer. And so we always say it's really great to attend these career fairs, even if you're only a first year student, because a lot of times companies send the same representatives year after year to talk to the students, and so they'll start to recognize your face and you'll start to recognize them. And so if you've come three years in a row and given your resume to Lockheed Martin.

And said I want to work for you. You know they're going to start thinking wow, the students very persistent. And once they've gotten some of those general credits down, we know that they're, you know, proficient engineer. We should really start thinking about hiring them. So that's also one of the coolest opportunities that the engineering success center offers. Camille. did I miss anything there?

OK, once again if you have any questions, pop him in the chat moving on so our Scott by mentioning building has three floors is kind of a really cool resource because the majority of this building is all lab space which I will get to in just a moment. But we also do have study spaces. This is an example of a design studio, this one right here is called Cassini design studio. We have these engineering specific design studios in every engineering building on campus, so that's going to be Scott Bio Engineering there I think.

For labs in Scott by engineering and then also in the engineering building, there's about a million. And there's also labs on the ground floor of academic village engineering, which is our engineering specific residence Hall which will talk a little bit more about later. So these designs, who use are super cool because they are engineering specifics, so you log into the computers with an ID specific to your engineering account, and these computers have any software that you're going to need for any engineering class at CSU, so that means they have all the stuff you're going for coding. They've got matlab.

They have AutoCAD if you're trying to 3D design something, they've got avagadro. If you're looking to look at bond links between molecules. Basically any software that your professors say hey, you're going to this homework. You can find it on these computers so you don't need to download these this software onto your personal computer if you don't want to. The other cool really cool thing about these computers is that you can connect to them through your own laptop via a VPN, so if you're home for break or you're just not on campus, but you really need to finish an assignment that you don't have the software on your own computer.

You can actually access these computers through a VPN from home, whether you're in state or out of state. It's pretty cool stuff, so a lot of times people ask us what kind of computer should I bring. The campuses need to press.

Using power answer to that is really bring whatever you think will fit you best. If it's a Mac, bring a Mac. If it's a PC, bring a PC. Your personal computer is going to be a lot more for writing emails, keeping track of homework, and like I would say, less processing power things because you can always use these computers for those tasks. That being said, if you want to bring a Super Hardcore desktop, absolutely do that. I know people have done that as well.

Other things to mention about these design studios is that they are all donated to us by Lockheed Martin. If you know who lucky Barton is, or if you don't, there are very big aerospace company. They're pretty cool people, so they actually donate these spaces to us a little bit selfishly. It's fun story if you kind of look really closely at that photo, you can kind of see that the way the lab space is set up is that there's these individual computers that have been speaking out or on the outside of the room, and one table in the middle of the room, and every single lab space.

Is going to be set up like that with all these designs to use and the reason for that is lucky Martin requests this because they are. They like to see that engineers can do individual work, so that's what those computers run outside the room. But they also like Engineers who can collaborate. So when you're done with the individual work, you come to the table in centre room and you talk with your peers and Camille and I will touch on this. Probably quite a few times throughout the tour today, but Engineering is Super Collaborative. You're always going to be working with other people. You're always going to be working with people who have different skill sets than you have, so it's important to learn how to work with those kinds of people.

Early on, and So what happens is what our engineers walk across the stage at graduation. Lucky Barn usually likes to snap them up because we're already used to that model of group collaboration in engineering that Lockheed Martin likes to employ at their company.

So kind of a fun tidbit and back story there.

Also, we have lots of other study spaces like this one right here. The cool thing about this is that that right hand wall is actually a whiteboard, so if you are a very visual learner or you've always wanted to fill that childhood desire of drawing on the walls, you can do so in these study spaces. There's a couple of am back to back, so it's really great to resource, and those are just first come first serve in our Scott Bio Engineering Building. I know Camille and I both consistently named. Scott bio is one of our favorite places to study on campus because as chemical.

Logical engineers and biomedical and Camille's case. We're in this building a lot and so all the majors will have classes in this building, but there's really only a couple of classrooms in here. Mostly you'll be in Harper Auditorium. Your first year will touch on that in a second, but the cool thing about Scott was it's all lab space, so we can move into one of our labs.

This is our chemical and biological lab, so what's really cool about how engineering works at CSU is that you are going to have a hands on engineering experience your very first semester at CSU coming in as an engineer. So every engineer will come in and take an introduction to X Engineering course. So for Camille and I, it was introduction to chemical and biological engineering. If your interest in civil engineering introduction to civil engineering so it's saved 101 and so so your very first semester, you kind of get a real idea.

Of what is going to be like to be an engineer at CSU? So the way this works, it's a lecture and lab is your intro course and so you're going to lecture three times a week for one hour ahnlab once a week for three hours. So it's a bit of a flip flop model, and the reason we do that is because you can learn about all the theoretical in your introduction class, and then you can learn the practical application in your lab and so apart from just being a crash course in a really great opportunity to get really hands-on, this is a great opportunity to assess whether Engineering is right for you because.

It's a pretty great example of what the rest of your time. It's easy is going to be like engineering, sees very collaborative. It's very hands on, and it's very practical. Which is 3 things that I absolutely love about it. So in this lab, chemical and biological engineering lab, you're going to encounter a lot of really cool stuff. This machine in this picture is actually a hemodialysis machine. If you don't know what that is, it basically mimics a human kidney, so it's filtering stuff out of your body and this machine. Believe it or not, can mimic that process.

It kind of just looks like a series of dials and tubes and running water to me, but in your third, 4th or fifth years as a chemical biological engineer or biomedical engineer, you can be in this lab actually running simulations on this experiment, pinching tubes to simulate clogs, arteries, or, you know, unplugging dials to simulate something or other, and you can actually use that to perform calculations on. You know what might be like if the kidney has too much oxygen in the blood, etc etc.

Another really cool thing that we do in this lab is we work with bio reactors, so it by reactors are shown on the bottom left. There's like orange and white machines. They don't look like a ton, but they're actually super interesting 'cause what bioreactors do is they mimic the inside of your body so they can be a stomach. For example. That's a lot of times we use them for you can throw a bunch of acids in there, you could throw a bunch of materials in there and see how they interact with each other 'cause.

A bioreactor will measure gas output. It'll measure pH. It'll measure pressure abunch of the qualities of the system that are kind of hard to measure when it's your actual stomach, you can just pop them in the machine and then we can get those numbers. So one really cool use for those is you throw a bunch of sugar in there. You throw bunch of bacteria in there. You measure how fast the bacteria eat the sugar by the oxygen content that comes out. Also you can brew beer in those which is really cool. We do have a fermentation major at CSU. Anti fermentation minor. Very common to see.

Engineers, especially chemical engineers or biological engineers with a minor in fermentation, because that's kind of a cool spinnoff of biological engineering. Fun tidbit is if you are over 21, I hear that the professor of the fermentation elective actually lets you try the beer at the end of the semester, which is a great segue into technical electives. It's the way engineering works at Csus your first two years you're going to be taking mostly general credits, so that stuff like into calculus you know physics.

Biology making sure that you've got the basics down and that you are well rounded engineering students and then in your last two three or less 3, four or five years depending on your program, you get to take more engineering specific courses where you really dive into what you're interested in. Engineering and along with that you get technical electives.

Which is where you get to explore your personal passions within your major of engineering. So the best way I can kind of explain is if you're a mechanical engineer who wants to work for NASA. You can take a bunch of aerospace technical electives. Again, aerospace, concentration, and when you graduate you can say look NASA. I took these classes in aerospace engineering and I've got a really broad based in mechanical engineering. You should hire me, or if you're a chemical engineer who is interested in fermentation, you take all those fermentation technical electives and you graduate and you try to work with New Belgium Brewery. You can say look, I took all these classes on.

Fermentation, because that's where my interests lies.

So those are some of the coolest classes you'll get to take because it's purely what you want to take and we can touch on that a little bit later as well. But for now, I think that's all I wanted to cover about this lab. Take it away, Camille.

Cool, so kind of going back to what Katie Katie Whoa. Too many cases. Kate Kate, Kate what Kate was saying was you're going to take an introduction to chemical, biological engineering introduction to said major coming in as engineering open option, you're going to take a class called engineering. I believe it's 101 or 100. I'm spacing on it. Is it 101?

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This is virtual super fun honestly, and So what this is, it will tell you about the grand challenges of engineering and so there are 14 grand challenges of engineering and I encourage you to definitely look at all those grand challenges of engineering. They range everything from cyber security all the way down to ensuring that communities get water and good water all the way down to medical devices and so really spans across all different types of engineering. And that's where that collaborative event comes in that Kate was talking about. And so.

In this class, what you will do this will be like in place of your CV 101 or your easy 101 or whatever it is and you will go through each of those grand challenges of engineering and kind of see how different majors and different types of engineering students go about that grand challenge of engineering. And by the end of it you will have learned one. All the 14 grand challenges engineering and different ways about the different majors that if you know kind of see which one you wanted to do and so you have professors come in, you have students who are already doing that major come in.

And just talk about it and so.

Doctor Burton for Muling is the professor for that class and honestly great guy. He's so passionate about all different types of engineering, and so that's just kind of that copy offer coming in as engineer open option. You will start off.

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OK cool yeah, so just just a little bit of that for engineering open option. But yeah sorry my Wi-Fi is going to start to go in and out just in case but yeah so I do also want to start talking about the biomedical engineering teaching lab so where Kate was talking about how a lot of CBS and BME's are in this in this building. I literally like live in this building because both of my majors are in this building and so this is a biomedical engineering teaching lab and so brief overview on biomedical engineering.

When you graduate after five years, you will get a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, a partner degree. So chemical and biological engineering or electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. And that's just because Biomedical Engineering is super super broad and so with chemical and biological engineering, you will get kind of those Pharmaceuticals. With mechanical engineering, you'll learn more about those prosthetics and with electrical engineering you'll learn more about lasers and optics and kind of understanding how scanning imaging works.

So in this lab, this is a lab that you will take your third year, third year, second semester, and So what do you do in this class is you will have four different projects, so this this club is project based. There is no homework and there are no exams and so the first 2 projects are going to be research based and the last two projects are going to be experimental based. So going through your research based labs, you're going to research upon either a screening method or different types of diseases, or like what we did actually was we.

Looked upon what would happen if the flu got super bad, that it became a pandemic, which honestly isn't too far from where we're at right now. And so we were told to look at ways to avoid that right? So too, for ways to combat it before it came to the United States, and after it came back came to the United States and do short term and long term recovery. So we looked at literally everything and we looked at what what people have done in previous epidemics or pandemics. And so this class is really applicable.

To what's going on in the world right now?

And it was really funny because me and my group got together after CSU had gone online and we were like we literally said wear masks the whole time and do all these things and be like, wow, that's exactly what we looked up. So that was super cool and then another thing and the other two projects is going to be those experimental based projects. And so that's what you can see in these pictures right here. You will be using a lot of medical devices so an EKG machine or sorry I always get these wrong and EMG machine or electromyogram.

And what that will do is, as you can see, and Anya Here on the top picture you have electrodes that are going to be placed in conjunction with the way that your muscles are being are like striated and so anytime that you either flex or you extend there are electrical pulses that go through your muscles to be able to kind of say OK like that's how many that's how.

So strong that electrical pulses is acting, and So what we did is we actually looked at different as seen on TV.

Types of product. So the bottom picture is Sarah on the simply fit board. And another thing that we did was look at the shake weight so I don't know if you know much about the shake weight, but essentially what it is is it's a dumbbell that if you just do this too, you're supposed to get arms of steel or this simply fit board is. If you do this motion for 30 minutes, you were going to tap the steel. What they do not kind of say majority of time is you only have to eat 1000 calories. I don't know about you.

But I love my food, so I will eat more than 1000 calories in one meal. So that's kind of hard for me. And so we put these electrodes on whatever muscle we're trying to target and what's interesting is that we saw that literally just doing this in our chair has activated our muscles more than this. Simply fit board or literally just doing this. Sorry, I went to the gym, does more than whatever the shake weight says it's going to do, and so these are all cool things that you can see within biomedical engineering and so.

That's why this makes it one of my favorite labs because as engineers, we really like that hands on experience and this lab really gave me that hands-on experience, but also the collaboration between engineers. So in a majority of your bio medical engineering classes, you will be with other biomedical engineers. So in one given project you're going to be with chemical and Biological Engineers, Mechanical Engineers or electrical engineers. And so it was really cool to see how other students and other majors attacked one problem really like.

Kate was saying was that collaboration between engineers, so that's biomedical engineering and is snippet, but we do want to now shift over really quickly. There's one hidden lab we like to say in the Scott Bio Engineering Building, and it's the water quality teaching lab. So for you all who were interested in civil and environmental engineering, this is a class that you will take your second or your third year in. This class is really a great way for you to learn more about the different specimens in.

In water, right? And so? What's really cool is that this water that we get is from that Ponder that Lake that we were talking about. That's on campus, and so it's actual dirty water, which doesn't sound so like fun and exciting. But for civil and environmental engineering students, it's super exciting for them to kind of understand. Yeah, like, like look through actual dirty water, and so you get to look through the actual specimens and kind of see how to cleanse that water. And one distinction that we like to make between.

Alright, sorry between civil and environmental engineering is civil engineering has to do more with water quantity. So getting the water to specific communities versus environmental engineering has to do more with water quantity quality. So how pure or how clean that water is? And so if you're kind of between both of those, that's kind of the main distinction in terms of water treatment. Obviously civil engineering has to do more with buildings and things that stand alone and environmental engineering has to do more with understanding.

Yeah, how how the water or how any treatment is able to be made within the environment.

Cool, alright, so we will continue on here to be older engineering building the other engineering building kind of just depends on how you want to call it, but it houses more of our older engineering majors, so mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, electrical and computer engineering are all going to be housed in this building. So here is like a little top view with all our cool solar panels. Here is another view of kind of the top view of that. And honestly you can kind of see all the.

All the leaves changing, and so This is why this is one of my favorite pictures, but I do now want to go into mechanical engineering and go into the engineering manufacturing lab and so the engineer manufacturing lab is more of a mechanical engineering lab. You actually take it your second semester or sorry second year of mechanical engineering and it's housed in a lab. That's called the engineering manufacturing center, so it's like a way for you to learn. And in in this lab you will have three different projects. You're going to make a Clock entirely out of scratch.

You're going to laser your name into a metal plate, and then you're going to make a screwdriver entirely out of scratch, so you get to learn everything from the blueprinting stage all the way down to the finished product. And that's really cool, because you're making everything from scratch and you get to learn about these all these different machines so alaaf AC.

See a heat treater whatever machine is in these engineering manufacturing wings, you'll be able to learn about it and learn how to precisely get a piece of metal to a specific cut, because that's exactly how you're going to be.

Excuse me, that's exactly how you're going to be graded is whether or not you're in this tolerance of. I believe it's .005 Milla meters. I always say leaders because I'm a chemical engineer, and that's always just funny, but yes, that is how you're going to be graded in terms of these projects.

So here are more pictures of CN season length machines.

Right next to the engineering manufacturing center you will have the I2 idea to product lab. Sorry and so this is where this house is. All of our really cool 3D printers, so within the College of engineering we have our own subset of three printers that are outside of the University 3D printers and so here you get to three print really anything you want. I know my brother who recently just came in as a first year. He decided to 3D print his pencil Holder because he didn't have one and he was like, well I want to learn how to use CAD modeling.

And be able to use that to make my own pencil case. And so he did. And it's really cool and I'm still working on asking him for one for me. But yeah, so you the way that this works is that you will take a class for. I think it's once a week for about a month just to kind of learn about how to clean one clean a 3D printer, how to use the 3D printer, and then once you are done taking that lab, you can go to this product. Or sorry you can go to this lab and be able to 3D print using the filaments.

That you by yourself. So that's really cool. And then also students will also use this for different projects so you can use it for. Like I said, your own recreational purposes. Or if you have a project in conjunction with maybe something in the manufacturing, you can use it there.

Or you can use it for senior design, which we will talk about here in a little bit.

And just, here's another picture of of the 3D printers.

Another lab that I do want to talk about is the materials lab, so this is kind of going into more, so the kind of civil, environmental and mechanical engineering, and it's exactly what it sounds like you're learning about the different materials that are being used for concrete or for pavement of roads, or for buildings and rebar, and all those really cool things for civil and environmental engineers, or you're learning about different materials that you can use with in cars.

Or like I said, anything that has to do more with that mechanical engineering side and so in this class you will be able to test those those materials. Be able to put them together and kind of understand how those all work together and what kind of combination of materials work best with each other. Like I said, this kind of materials lab spans across three different disciplines and so it kind of depends on which discipline you are in, in which you will be able to take this lab and so all our labs like Kate was saying is accompanied with a.

With a class and so you'll have like a materials class to be able to learn about different materials and then be able to apply that into the lab here.

And here's just another another picture. I think what they're doing here is, they've built like a mini building, another like putting it on a seismic plate to be able to shake up on it and see if that material stays sound.

The last lab within mechanical engineering is going to be the Mechatronics Lab, and so this is a really cool lab that combines electrical engineering and mechanical engineering and so in this class you will have you kind of learn how to circuit board like you can see here using our do we know you will also learn how to do that kind of the best way to explain this class is you're going to learn how to make something spin through coding an wires, not necessarily putting a battery into it and saying OK spin. You're going to learn how to code an.

But wires into that, and so this is a class that you will take your third year and it really combines that I idea to product lab and the engineering manufacturing because you at the end you will make a project that has two different requirements. It has to move and it has to light up. So you're learning how to use leads in this class in your learning, how the movement of different wheels or whatever it is that you want to move. One cool fun little project. It was someone had made a kind of lack of professors what they called it, but it's similar to whack a mole.

And so they 3D printed all of their professors faces, put them on a whack, amole kind of machine, and your goal was to whack the Professor. The Professor's weren't too happy about it, but it made for a good project. I believe it's our number one project. There's a little bored in the hallway of the engineering mechanical engineering wing, and so you can see that I believe that's the first project. It's been there for as long as I've been in school, and I started CSU in 2016.

Cool already, so we're going to move over to civil and environmental engineering through the thermal fluids lab and so this is a lab that will kind of teach you. It's kind of exactly what sounds like how fluids move through different pipes or through different types of machines, and so I'm going to go one more picture over here. And these are the types of machines that are going to be in this in this in this lab, right? So kind of going through. I'm going here with this green machine on your left here.

So this green machine is a kind of a way for you to stabilize water, so you put water in through it and then in that materials that I was talking about you can get a like.

A concrete slab. You can put it in there and that acts like a damn right? And so now your goal is to see how well that damn holds up against Super specific amounts of water and if you can see what water leaking through, then you know that there's something wrong with that damn. Or if that damn completely collapses. Obviously there is also something wrong with that damn, and so this is what this machine will do for you. This green machine here to the right here when you do the yellow machine.

This example is talking bout with like different fluids, so your goal is to put fluids through this machine to be able to see if you can. In a perfect world, not have a pressure drop. Obviously we don't necessarily live in that perfect world and so you will see pressure drop across different pipes, especially across different sizes of pipes, and so your goal now is to understand how can I minimize that pressure drop? What can I put around the pipe or what can I put around that conjunction with another pipe to be able to?

Lesson that pressure drop in so you can see right next to this green machine. Or sorry this yellow machine with kind of the blue pipes. Those are different pipes that you can put on to that yellow machine. You can't really see it from here, but the blue machine that's so the.

I'm trying to think how the blue machine nearest to the right will be also kind of similar to bridge building, and So what you'll do is it's the same thing as that Green Machine where you have water going underneath it, and so you can put a dam on there. Or you can kind of put a bridge on there and see how water flows, either over the bridge or under the bridge and kind of see how stand an sound. Your bridge is now going one more over to the left of your screen. That blue machine that really big bright blue machine that is a big wind tunnel that I've.

That wind tunnel, essentially you can put certain pipes or through it or whatever it may be to be able to see how wind is going to attack a certain structure or whatever it may be. So these are all great ways for you, so especially for civil and environmental engineers, for you to understand.

Yeah, how to better go about those types of structures.

Cool and these are just more pictures of that Thermofluids lab, so they're trying to measure. I believe. How not, how deep it is, but I think how much water or how much heat is lost through the environment and how to lessen that as well.

One last lab that you will hear from in the civil and environmental engineering wing is the smash lab, and it is exactly what it sounds like. It is a lab in which you smash things and so within the fluid within them. After you go to the materials lab, you will go to the smash lab and there's like a really big like kind of hammer that like swings from over here to over here and you put your your.

Slab he ran it like it's supposed to just smash it and you're supposed to see how brittle those materials are. So what's really cool about this class? Is it believe you do this every single week and you just keep smashing things, which is really fun. And then at the end you get to bring a personal item and just smash that machine as well so you know I've got into this class. Probably like once at the end of the year just to see what other people bring. People bought lamps people have brought like teddy bears which is really interesting 'cause they don't necessarily smash but I think it's just fun to see him fly across the room.

And the last major that we want to talk about is the electrical and Computer Engineering.

Or Department. And so this is similar to civil and environmental engineering works. One Department. Two different majors. So you can be an electrical engineering student, or you can be a computer engineering student. And so little caveat. There aren't many things to show within this lab just because. Obviously electrical computer engineers are going to work with circuit board re or obviously on computers, and so it's going to be a lot of programming, but kind of the distinction between electrical and Computer Engineering is electrical is going to be more in charge of the motherboard.

Versus Computer Engineering is going to be using that motherboard to be able to program a specific computer.

So some cool projects that we have here are. So this machine right over here you'll be able to kind of if you're going to see that triangular kind of pyramidal type of device you're going to put it in there and kind of see the electromagnetic waves and see the sound and how that bounces off of that one specific pyramid. And so it's not necessarily like a thing that you it's supposed to be like a sensor, not necessarily like an object that you're putting in there, just kind of goes through and you're able to kind of see the coil around that.

I mean, you can do it in many different orientations like you can see on this picture on the left or this picture on the bottom right, and I believe that changes, and I'm not entirely sure how it changes it, but I know orientation has a lot to do with it.

And this next thing here, this is another machine that is going to be more of that electrical and Biomedical Engineering realm. And so you're able to kind of see the how different devices are. Sorry how.

Patrick, you're able to see how image Ng goes through different different sensors, right? And so it's kind of enclosed like this to be able to kind of see where the sensors are going and where that light is going to be able to kind of detect. OK, like we don't want it to be this strong in radiation or we don't. We wanted stronger and ready radiation, whatever it may be, and so it kind of is helpful to have those lasers and a really dark environment.

Cool, well before I move on does anyone have any questions that I can help like that about the different types of majors or like the different types of?

Um, the different types of.

Things that we've been talking about. If you do, I'll get. I'll pause for like about a minute to kind of see if anyone has any questions here.

In that minute commute, would you mind if I tried taking control of the slides for just a second? They stopped moving for me a while back, so I'm I'm far behind.

There are questions for anyone.

Alrighty alright, well we will move on here to office hours and advising so I do want to touch on this. This is kind of one of my favorite things here at CSU. So office hours all of your professors.

Will have some type of of.

Of office hours and so every single professor, whether it's going to be your tiez, your professor or your.

I guess sometimes you have like a graduate assistant Anna TA. You will be able to have office hours and now it's really cool. Those office hours are using to be outside of class, so for 5:00 or 6:00 o'clock and usually will be for two or three hours.

And so.

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Yeah I did I just like go over all your slides then I'm so sorry.

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OK so I was just going to go over offers negative ising if that's cool.

So, so many great resources for engineers at CSU and for students in general. So every class that you're going to take is required to have office hours. So whether it's taught by Professor Ortie, which is a teaching assistant, which is usually a graduate student who's taken the class, knows what they're doing, is now teaching it are all required to have office hours, so these are really great times for you to meet with your professor. You know one on one or in a group setting, and just ask questions about the material. I cannot overstate how valuable office hours and.

Tutoring are in general. I know it's a lot of times kind of scary to go talk to your professors, but I promise it pays off. So we say about office hours is go early and go often. They really are great resources. I'm a professor set aside that time just for you, so feel free to go and take advantage of it. The other thing that is super great resources academic advising. So every engineer is going to be assigned an academic advisor who will help them with their course of study and get to know your academic advisor is.

Big piece of advice. Get to know your academic advisor. These are people who know everything about your major front and back. They know the classes you need to take. They know the difficulty levels than other professors who are teaching them, and they get to know you over the course of your time at CSU, and so your academic advisors can be really, really great resources during your time in engineering.

Some of the other cool stuff we have is study spaces and classrooms. What you're seeing right now is a picture of the BC and fill in the engineering building. Basically, what that means is every Hall of the Engineering Building is a different wing, so it's a different Department of engineering and so the B&C halls are electrical and Computer Engineering respectively. So the space between them is called the BC and Phil. And surprise, surprise, a lot of electrical and computer engineers will be in this space studying day after day. Really great space to work on. Group projects, meet with professors, meet with groups.

Or just study by yourself.

Likewise, in the. I believe it's between A&B Halls. This is the Internet cafe, so it's kind of cool because it's it's elevated. It's on the 2nd floor and the first floor is actually that thermal fluids lab that Camille was just talking about with all of the moving parts and giant machines that's on the ground floor and on the 2nd floor is the Internet cafe. So all of those computers you see are those same computers in every engineering design studio. So like I was talking about earlier in the presentation they have all of the programs you're going to need for any classes CSU.

Really great space to study. Really chill, relaxed environments. There are also other design studios in the engineering building if you prefer one of those, but this is a really great spot to study classroom sizes for. Engineers really do very. We're trying to give you an idea of what it's like to be a student here, so these pictures are some of the larger classrooms you probably see as an engineer. On the left is Harper Auditorium, which is really the main classroom. Back in Scott Bio Engineering. You're kind of your intro to.

Your major classes are going to be held in Harper Auditorium because it's one of the biggest engineering specific classrooms that we have and what I mean by that is that engineers usually have smaller classes, especially as you go into your second, third, 4th, fifth years. Your classes get more specific and more specific, and they get smaller and smaller, but your first year you're going to be in something things like physics and chemistry, which may very well be taught in lecture halls, but all of your engineering specific classes will be a little bit smaller, so on the right there I believe.

That's a classroom in Clark, and so that might be where you take your physics lecture or your chemistry lectures. And so the biggest lecture I've every ever had I think, was 230 people for it was introduction to chemistry, just general chemistry. It's a requirement just to for every engineer, I think, except for electrical. Have to take jenkem, but my engineering specific classes have never been quite so big. They always kind of narrow it down so the professor can give more time and energy to the students that are there.

Um, so that's kind of class sizes. They get smaller as you go through your degree, and you also really get to know your professors and your fellow students as you go through your degree as well.

Another cool thing about our engineering program at CSU is we have what is called the engineering residential learning community. So what this is is it's basically engineering specific residence halls or air spaces for engineers. So we have two different residential learning communities. Two different physical spaces. They're the same community, so the one is academic village engineering, which is our engineering specific residence Hall in academic village. Academic field is just a cluster of buildings on campus.

More on that in the second other year else, which is the abbreviation for engineering residential learning community is going to be in Edwards Hall, so Edwards is just behind academic village as one full floor will just be the else. Basically what these are is just spaces where engineers can live together so all of academic village engineering is 1 residence Hall entirely for engineers. Academic village is actually 4 buildings in one cluster. You've got a dining Hall. You've got ASP in which is a resident than three residents. Also, you've got Aspen Honors. An engineering honors is just for honor students.

Engineering is just for engineering students, and aspirin is for a mix of Honor students and engineering students and also students in their upper class years who wanted to stay living on campus. So I lived in academic village engineering my first year and I actually lived in Aspen for half of my second year. So on campus for three semesters. Really cool experience living in an engineering residential learning community because I was on an all girls Hall and I was I met. My roommate was a biomedical and chemical and biological engineer. My RA was a chemical.

Biological engineer and we had every major in engineering in my hole, so I right off the bat just by where I was living I met 14 other you know gals in stem and so you could do homework together. You could work on projects together and every Hall there are study spaces on either end. It's kind of a strange setup but just imagine there's a bigger study lounge at a smaller study. Two smaller study lounges on every floor, lots of places to hide away and work on your homework which everyone was doing because it was a.

Residence Hall full of Engineers. So it was really great experience. Just like living with people. It was your same interests your same drive and also your same classes 'cause it's really convenient. So if you're stuck on a calc two problem, turn around room and say Hey, have you figured this one out yet and they can say yes, no or maybe and then you can go talk to your RA together or what not. The other coolest thing about the engineering residential learning community and my favorite part is that the ground floor of that building is actually one giant computer lab. So just like the Cassini design studio, just like the Internet cafe.

This is an engineering specific design studio with those special computers that have all of the software on them. Also, all of those labs come with a printer, usually a color printer, and the black and white printer you get print as an engineer at CSU you get printing credits. I believe it's $20 per year and it cost like 3 cents to print a page so you get a lot of printing out of being an engineer. So if you're thinking about bringing a printer to campus alot of times I would say as an engineer you don't really have to worry about it because you always have one of those.

Pictures available to you. These pictures here are just some pictures of that ground floor of academic village engineering, so this is that design studio. As you can see a great space for collaboration meeting with groups. There are whiteboards, their tables, their computers. There's also tutoring offered in this building every Sunday through Thursday, and the way that works is every day is going to be a specific area of engineering, so Sundays. It's chemical biological Mondays, it's mechanical, etc. As you move on and that tutoring is hosted by upper class upper class students in engineering.

Who have taken that class for which there touring and done well in it, so their their peers. So it may be something the way the professor explained the concept didn't resonate with you, didn't quite click. You can go to tutoring an ask your peers to re explain it, and maybe they'll explain it in a way that does click with you, so just another one of those really great resources out there offering for engineers and this photo right here is just a photo of what the rooms look like in all of academic village of academic village is suite style which is kind of like the swankiest version of the.

Residence halls we have on campus because they have their own sink and their own bathroom. So it's just you and your roommate. Two people to 1 bathroom. There are singles available in these residence halls. There also some quadruples, which is kind of fun. And then Edwards is a community style dorm, so you'll have one Hall and then a couple of bathrooms that you will share. There's also a third style of room on campus and that's Jack and Jill where you and your roommate and then your neighbors and their roommate will share one bathroom.

I believe that's in Braden and summit, so lots of different styles the but Evie is kind of really nice as well, because they are, I think the only.

The halls on campus that come with air conditioning, which is super great. Every every Hall has heating because it gets cold in the winter. But for air conditioning normally is just a lot of fans, but Evie actually has some. So like I said, pretty fancy. In addition to all of the Cool Engineering Resources an lab space is available to you.

Camille, did I miss anything there?

OK, well then oh wait, I did miss something. Laundry laundry is actually free. It's included in your student fees so there is going to be a laundry spot. I guess a laundromat in every residence Hall. It's usually on the ground floor. You just pop down there an you can throw your clothes in the washer and in the dryer and it doesn't actually cost you anything. You just use your ram card to let you know. Let them know that it's your.

Your laundry, which is pretty Dang cool.

Also, something to mention is that you do not have to live in an engineering residential learning community. If you are majoring in engineering, you can live wherever your little heart desires. It is just an option for you as an engineer and I believe the housing application is on a rolling basis and Evie usually fills up pretty quickly. So if this sounds interesting to you, I would say definitely look up those deadlines and make sure that you get your app in as fast as you can. But other than that, thank you so much for attending and if you have.

Any questions, last minute questions, feel free to put him in the chat. Will answer them. We also have a ton of other resources that you can use to get more connected with us if you so desire. I can put a link to our featured students page in the chat. There we have.

One on one online appointments with our engineering ambassadors. So if there's anything at all on your mind, you can just come chat with us. We can fill you in. We also have more virtual tours if this just wasn't enough for you. Every Saturday and throughout the week. And we also have webinars every Monday and Friday, so lots of great stuff out there for you at Camille. Popped our email in the chat that is the ambassador email. We assume ambassadors really are here as resources for you during this college search process. So if you have anything on your mind, if you have anything you're unsure about or want to ask about.

Feel free to send us an email 'cause that's what we're here for and we're so happy to help. So other than that, thank you for coming and I hope you have a wonderful day, Camille. Anything else?

Yeah, thank you so much.

And yeah, we hope you had a great exploration. We and just learn more about us and what we do with the College of engineering. Thank you so much.

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