Department of Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Overview

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Can you hear me?

Hi.

Can you hear me OK?

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OK, good.

How is my audio sound or?

Yeah.

Man, there's a little feedback, but not too bad.

Yeah.

Just sounds like a fan or something is on.

You can hear that that's my computer fan. It just fun.

Cool.

I'm sure if you speak louder over it, it'll be fine.

Yeah.

So I'll just.

OK.

Experimenting with sharing screen versus running the slide built inside of.

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I will go slides look to you.

They look OK.

I'm not and I'm on a laptop. My mother's on 113 inch.

OK.

And that's real.

So does it take up your whole screen?

No, it's just that bottom section, so I see also across the top.

OK, OK.

Who?

No no.

It looks like Mike doesn't see the slightly event.

Inside of it.

We just got a Webex request from Mike because he can't get into sleep.

Hello.

I'm gonna hop out of sleep.

Internet.

OK yeah, I'll join in a second.

OK.

Hang on, I'm trying to switch my webcam. I turn off Suede also.

I'm gonna switch my webcam slate is using it so I don't know how to do that.

OK, I'm green and red. Do you hear me?

Yes, so you, Karen Green, when you talk, read when you're not talking.

Hello.

Yeah, OK good.

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Shut up.

Play chandelier?

Watching them.

Twitter.

How you doing?

Hi.

Good.

How are you guys doing?

You know, for the first time ever, I feel a bit of nerves and I don't know why.

Like I never like doing it in person. I never feel nerves in Davis 101.

Yeah.

You know who was the first time ever is a little bit of tingles going on. I don't know what to do.

OK, good.

Absolutely.

Can I offer you guys uh a word of caution based on this morning session and and previous session?

OK.

So when you are done and it's you've decided that the group of you are going to step out the chat will stay alive because the students are connecting with one another so Jen isn't going to closeout the event right away because they are creating WhatsApp groups for perspective students and things like that.

OK.

So make sure that you hit that green broadcast video button up there and then X out of your browser.

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Yeah.

So while the chat was running today and the students were communicating with one another they had a view of Christine checking her email in her house and frantically trying to reach her by 10 she of course had her Phone quiet because she was presented sleep so early.

Uh.

Alright, so um hit the broadcast and then close the browser.

Got it.

Yeah.

OK.

Just close right out of it yeah it happens uhm to to Jeff an me the first time we did one solo 2 without Jen.

So that's the rookie mistake that we're experiencing.

Nick Cannon I also see at the top of the tab there. There's a red light record button, so this is being recorded right now.

Yeah so it's being reported um slate does auto captioning an the captioning isn't perfect so Holly Ann communications has a student assistant who's going to go through a knowledge the captions afterwards and once I'm only letting you know that so you know it's not instantaneous but once the captions are good and it's ready to go then it'll be posted.

OK.

On a perspective students tab it's actually the tab where were a posting our undergraduate webinars.

How do you love and are so we have think this morning we had 13 total webinars on there and we have 4 more to add so we have a wise one coming up latisha is hosting one and those ones aren't in there yet I did the department's first?

Mike's gone?

Um so.

Oh.

Michael.

He stopped over here, just parking.

I turned off the broadcast video maybe.

Did he hit broadcast video?

I'm back.

Mary is.

Yeah um so uh.

Nice to see you.

I'm sorry I don't know, so I was I was looking at Kevin slides and I don't see them. Actually they seem empty to me so I did a refresh but when doing a riff Brentwood.

Oh because you can't control slides so you can if you take control but right now I'm controlling them do you see it.

Yeah, OK, so they appear now after you sort of show them OK?

Yeah so.

Shannon Shannon, but I'm also controlling them.

Oh no, you took it. I see it just switched, yeah.

Yeah, now I see them, yeah.

So you're not now once I hit that you're gonna pass it back and forth to each other now Michael take control of the slides up there at the Top alongside broadcast video.

When it turns green for you I still have control?

No, I took it and gave it back.

Yeah.

Oh you took it and gave it back OK Mary do you wanna try to control slides.

So now I can.

Uh-huh

And.

Give it back.

Yep.

So I don't see Kevin, by the way you see Kevin.

Yep.

OK and then Kevin you should take it from me.

I see.

You do seem OK, so I'm going to refresh again. Let's see what happens.

A Chrome.

What browser are you in?

Crown.

So she and I just took control and I don't see past the slide that I'm currently at.

You shouldn't so it set up so that the students can't I just set it to the very beginning slide so you can take control back for me now um this.

Yeah, it's funny. I see everyone now except Shannon.

I don't know why it sort of playing these games.

Oh my gosh I don't know waht.

But who knows?

Do you hear me?

I think you don't hear me, actually.

I'll ask jenn if she can pop in let me text her um but Kevin your your question was about Oh so Johnny has it set so that the students cannot advance ahead of wherever you want.

No, I hear you, we hear you.

Are you doing OK?

Hi.

Did you hear?

No. So so Shanna what I'm saying is I have control the slides right now.

Yeah.

An I don't see past.

That slide the experiential learning slide that I have up right now.

But if you scroll then you'll see.

OK that's not up for me.

I don't see it.

No, I don't see it. It's the slides are blank.

Yeah, it's supposed to be blank.

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No, for the person viewing web or not. But for me who controlling it, I should be able to see all the slides.

OK.

Maybe Shannons controlling or you are saying your controller.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um.

Yeah so.

Yeah I get through is your final slide FA QS and.

Yeah, very strange. I sort of some of the slides, but now they all disappeared.

So now I see all the slides and my control slides is not green.

Boo.

Yeah, but she.

So I have control now and I went through the whole maybe that's why it's him but let me text jenn and.

Yeah, I don't hear. See Shannon said she's talking and pop interfering.

I can hear you.

Can you hear me?

Yeah I'm not sure.

So Shandy of control now.

I do you can take it from me just click.

Yeah, so so right. So now all I see is the first slide and on the bottom of the slide sorter I don't see the rest of the slides.

Correct?

Right, and so that was happening before when I had control C like my control button is not green right now.

Now if you take it, will you be able to see the rest of the slides?

That's so if you make your control button green.

Yep.

You got it now.

Yes, now I can see all the slides.

Now can you go through.

Google.

Yes.

You only can do you can only see all the slides and you can only control the slides if your button is green.

Got it.

All right?

And if I make it green so I can take that from you or Mary can take that from you Ann I think that functionality is because if your network glitches out somebody else is gonna come in and bail you out is been my experience um so.

You're only gonna be able to see ahead if it's green for you.

OK, that's fine. That's what I was. I think it must have been a glitch with the browser because I was green and I couldn't see past the experiential learning slide that I was on. But at the same time you said you were not seeing that experiential learning slide in the window.

Correct.

Yeah, um another thought. Now how can we use the slides in here and not allow me to share? Why don't we present by me sharing a screen? Just a curiosity question.

Allow you to present while you're sharing the screen.

Yeah so here I'll demonstrate.

Salmon can do a refresh your browser. I don't know. Probably that's not going to help, but I don't see you. I see everyone except you and I don't hear you either.

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Well, Christmas.

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So I'm saying Shannon, why don't you allow us to present like this? Is what I mean?

Well, why don't we hold on? Let me fix it.

Like this, right?

That looks more.

Yeah, it looks good.

There's a reason why windows wire is best practices as to why you want to do this.

So she's coming in now. I texted her to ask her to join, um, I would.

Yeah, that's she's telling me only one person can control slides at a time. Yeah, um, so.

The only thing I would want to check with her before you change the format is that, UM, we, you know we're recording these for video to post on our website and.

The chat feature you know you can see Kevin sent me a chat that's probably gonna have. It's probably going to blow up a little bit with students connecting with one another and then the chat covered some peoples faces in the video so she has it format it so that the recording looks good later.

Wow.

And you know, like she, for example, had to turn off the chat for the delete, the chat for their recording. Uhm, so I would. That's fine, as far as I'm concerned. And if she gives us the thumbs up, that's fine as well. But I just ask to find out if it's going to have any other implications for you.

Yeah, that's why. I'm just a curiosity question.

The.

You should. You're kind of a renegade. You're like you-know-what, no, no. Everybody else is afraid to like, touch a button or hit enter and you're like you know why can't we do this differently?

What's this do?

Yeah, I mean that's how we figure out what's the best approach, right?

The engineers.

Damn engineers, I know, right?

So I mean, I'm OK to prefer to do it either way, right?

Yeah.

And then during the event, I'm still going to be here just as I am now, but I'm not going to broadcast my video. The live stream to my porch that you see here so that you can hear my children screaming, uhm.

It's better when there's children screaming come on.

OK.

It is, it is so, but I'll still be here helping. And if it looks like something is glitching out, I'm listening to you and I'll. You know if I have to broadcast I will. I did this morning, I will, but since I'm not contributing they don't need to see my face.

Hello.

No, that's fine. So high Jen. The question I had was how can we? How come we present viable slides in state versus sharing my screen which I'm doing now is that? Is there a difference or preference for like the recording or anything like that?

I've always just done it in sleep with the uploading the slides there, but if you are more comfortable sharing your screen in doing it completely up to you.

Ha, OK.

Yeah.

Can I so wait? There's one functionality saying I'm thinking of Jen. Do you remember when the network dropped for us and you took control of the slides remotely an you helped us go through the rest of the presentation? If Kevans sharing from his screen an there's a glitch, then nobody else can grab control of the slides, correct?

But don't you guys have them uploaded in here?

We do.

They are, yeah.

Yeah, so I mean you would be able to if you hit control slides they should come up then.

Look

They should come up, but Kevin would still be sharing his screen right?

Yeah, that's true.

OK.

OK, it was just a curiosity question. I mean I'm happy to use the slice insulate that we uploaded. It will just in opposite last night and it was just a procedural thing like Oh 'cause My thought process was. If I can share my screen then we have animations, right?

Correct, yeah, yeah you could.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it but not crucial. Animations are not crucial at all, so you know I said I'm totally OK running with what's inside of sleep. I'm good with that.

Yeah, personal preference. I mean nobody is had animations and there's before, so they've just been like static slides. So but an we never recorded one with sharing the screen, but I would assume it would work just the same so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

OK.

OK.

Yeah no, I'm good, I'm I'm good. We can use what what since late I'm OK with that. We don't have to be the Guinea pigs for everything.

And you have.

I went well this morning so.

Oh

Sorry.

OK, so the one other question I have so the I'm going to take control actually have control the slides. The last slide here. So I've got Serena out student on here.

OK, if she talks for a minute or two.

Yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

And so she's not in yet. I can see, uhm, but.

OK.

No, she's got an exam and that ends like right at 4:00 o'clock.

Oh, OK.

So she's gonna join when she does, but this is at the end of the presentation, right? I won't mention her until the actual end of the presentation.

Play.

Yeah she can. Or anyone can pop in and out at any point. So like Shannon is going to pop out and like if Mary you don't want to be on there until like you're saying something, you can just unbroadcast and come back in at anytime.

Yeah, and that's a question for Kevin and Mike. I was kind of planning to not broadcast and just handle the chat.

I'm good with that.

OK.

OK.

Yeah, and then like towards the end, Mary, if there's questions you might just want to pop in and ask him out loud so they can answer him. That's what we did this morning, so it seems to work OK.

So.

So Mary, those questions that Shannon's tennis maybe at the end you can pop in and just reiterate those and I can make sure I answer them directly.

OK.

The other thing we did this morning, Mary was the scenes that were broadly applicable and came up. You know, more than once, or even once, uhm?

Right?

OK.

So we fed those too. Um Jeff and Christine, and, um, you'll have dalyn, whose tag teaming with you as a moderator. And she she worked. This morning's web and are so this will be the second time that she's done this today. And so, um, Kevin and Mike, if you wanna say at the end you know Mary and alien. Are there questions coming up and chat that we haven't covered yet? Then they can take turns offering you some of the questions.

OK.

Yeah, and having that last slide that I have which handles a lot of the.

As 80 question like that kind of bit, we may want to invite Dalene in case she wants to.

Say a blanket statement about that kind of stuff.

So.

This laptop

Right, right? So my intention was to go through so, uh, talk about this slide. Talk about so this slide basically is about who is available to answer questions and then specifically information. And then I was going to go to that last side to talk about School of engineering. Leave this slide up so they could just.

OK.

Take a look at the information, but then mention that specific questions about AP credits in SHG can be answered by Dalene and then go back to this previous slide here and just leave this slide up.

Yeah.

Or I can leave the iPad that friend leave this slide up and you know if there is specific SATRACT or AP questions dalene is monitoring the chat so she can answer those or ask them and we can answer them.

Yeah, real time or she can jump in or whatever makes happy sense.

And then Kevin and M1 more thing that popped up this morning, and I've seen pop up in the previous webinars. Um, is COVID-19 as a question that students ask, and it's not possible for you to be able to protect to predict what's going to happen in the fall.

But

No, absolutely.

Right?

Yeah, for whatever it's worth, Jeff offered, this is an answer this morning. He explained to them that you know, while we can't predict, he's confident that you be as poised to offer them a world class education. Whether we can be seated together in classrooms or whether we have to move to an on line format in some way so is upbeat with at the same time being realistic like there's they want you to know the answer, and you can't know the answer.

Right now, I'm good with that I'm OK with that. Yeah.

I think we all want the answer right.

Yeah, I think so too.

Think so too.

OK so I'm I'm good. I have no other questions. Mike, it's up to you if you want to stay on the screen or you know, disappear as well. I don't have any preferences.

Yeah, I'll probably.

Maybe all the flash myself when you sort of say who's available.

OK.

Is Mike talking?

Yeah.

And then again, I'll I'll probably be quiet. Most of the session if you need sort of meet, uh, sort of step in, let me know. But I'll be here all the session, just in case. But I'm usually usually manage in these things excellently, sort of on your own, so whatever, whatever you prefer.

OK.

OK, I'm good with that. That's fine. Shannon, Mike was talking. Could you not hear him?

I couldn't hear him.

Oh

OK, do you see me?

I could hear you and see you clearly, Mike.

Yeah me too.

Yeah, there's something my system is sort of his mad at Shannon. For some reason. I'm not sure why.

I can hear everyone but Mike, I think.

Yeah.

I think Shannon you keep going in and out, so it might be your connection. So maybe try refreshing and coming back in.

Young, Kevin I don't know if you wanna say something right at the top of this thing of you know any questions in chat will be going through answering them, but it's a popular question. We can come back to it.

Hi.

Can you hear me?

Give me out of you know you can put stuff in chat, but we may not get to everything in person in the afternoon.

OK.

Yeah, yeah, no, we can hear you now.

OK Mary, cool.

OK.

But I see you for example twice now in my sleep.

Yeah, so do I.

I see myself out maybe in my logged in twice.

Call chance

It happened last time, but the second one went away after a while.

I don't know why you see me twice.

Yeah.

Yeah, same for me also.

I see I see you twice too. I think if we refresh you go away the second time or the first time.

It'll be pretty magical if you can go away twice. That would be kind of funny.

Actually, I think that happened. I don't see Shannon all now.

When I come.

Hello.

Oh no, I lost Kevin.

Yeah.

He made a refreshed it.

Yeah.

I'm still here. I'm gonna go get my power cord though.

That I see Kevin again pick Evan.

Yeah, it would flash.

OK, looks good now.

There's only one chatting, but she's frozen.

Oh she frozen again.

Yeah.

Alrighty.

Yeah.

You will I see one frozen Shannon. Oh I see.

Up there just.

I see one frozen Yeti, one frozen channel.

Sure.

Um?

Yes, Sir, no problem.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure I can Cope, Shannon.

Yeah.

I don't know if I don't know if you sign out. I don't know if I can cope. I don't know. Three of you is going to work.

Yeah.

All right?

OK, I'm gonna run broadcast.

OK, sounds good.

Jenn, I'll be right back.

Can you hear me, Mary?

Yes I can. I do see two of you though.

I don't know why that's happening.

I don't know, um, we also have 6 users connected. Do we then have students in here?

OK.

OK.

No they can't join yet the 6 are Jen gamble Kevin Burke Mary Bush Michael langberg and probably 2 of Shannon Phillips.

Um they can't get in yet you know I have a question for you how many UM students do you typically have registered for an accepted students day.

About 35, so we're kind of right on track with.

Yeah.

Wow 'cause you're at 34 right now.

Oh that's awesome that's awesome.

Yeah, we were actually a little worried were like OK if this is on line and anybody can join, are we going to get 200?

Yeah yeah.

34 is pretty pretty young track for us.

Woman.

That's really funny that it worked out like that.

Look

Good so.

And there were uhm I think 291 uhm participants for Jeffs schoolwide welcome this morning and let I looked at the numbers for the you know the overall engineering numbers for last year for the accepted students day and there were 284 I think.

In

That's great.

Some consistent I couldn't believe it.

Yeah.

Alright, I'm going to Unbroadcast and answer a few emails while we wait the last 10 minutes here.

And Kevin you don't think that the student is going to join its arena is going to join until the very last minute right.

No, she will probably be right in the very last minute right before we start.

Got it.

She said.

I asked her if she was done with the exam early to join early, but she said so. The example supposed to go to three, but the professor gave them more time till 4.

So I told pastor. You know, no worries, just join when you can and I'll send her a note right now that she doesn't have to broadcast video until the end.

OK.

I should put the first slide up.

I mean just.

Janice text.

My first zoom classed hacked today.

OK.

It was.

Whoever it was came in first name, Jack last name HHASHAAS Jack has.

Not.

Oh my God wait.

And I don't understand how because I did the zoom invite through Jubie learns right so?

Because.

Yes, it wasn't. Password didn't happen.

It was a password on it.

And really disrupt the class or.

Wow.

Well, I figured out pretty quick because it didn't recognize his face and then so while I started the Class I was asking him some very specific pointed questions.

Uhm, and then while that while it was happening on my other screen, I pull up the class list and was looking for his picture and his name.

And couldn't find it. And then I asked him well, what's your person number 'cause we're talking about Digication eportfolios like So what you bite name so I could find your portfolio an he said he's looking and he couldn't find it. And then I said well give me a person number I'll find it and he then said he didn't know what is person or was he didn't have his ID. So at that point I just booted him 'cause at that point I had checked my class list and he wasn't there.

Wanted.

Oh.

So I just booted him from the meeting and he tried. He tried to come back in and he tried to come back in.

You wanted to attend a class.

Like a junior class in EE.

Out.

Well, no, this was this one is the transfer. This was the seminar transfer seminar.

Oh OK, so maybe was like OK, OK.

How?

So someone had to give him the link are out in those. I don't know how he got in, but.

I'm not sure.

You could have actually, could you know it's it's annoying, but you could, you know invited him. Also if he wants to sort of attend a like a, make sure as an open listener. I think he's welcome, but.

She yeah.

Now you don't have to be in disguise or something, that's strange.

Yeah it was very strange. It was indeed.

Yeah.

Oh my God I can see it must be so *** **** bored to be doing this water.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know.

He had no kidding, no kidding.

Oh my gosh what a weird way to spend your time.

Shadow on the bottom of my screen went sort of Kevin controls the slides. If he goes back, I see nothing, but that's the way it should be and only I can only sort of see slides that he saw.

Yeah.

Or presented and then it's sort of. Yeah so I can to look at them because I think in the practice session I could actually see all the slides all the time.

Kind of strange.

OK.

Yeah I don't think here I'm gonna take control for a second Kevin so um now I'm gonna be on.

I did.

Kirkland slide and then uh I have control now did it go back to you automatically Kevin.

So Michael can you see up to the curriculum sheet that I left off at.

Yeah, but if I go back for example then again they disappear. I'm just saying this behavior wasn't there in the practice session.

I don't know.

OK.

OK.

Yeah I'm not sure this is the only way II can remember working in it.

Good so I'm broadcasting out again bye bye.

Shannon, quick question. If I put links in the chat will those be live links that students can click?

Thanks.

OK, good enough.

Um they're not live I think they do copy and paste them.

So.

Yep.

Yeah, I'm.

So I had a QR code or any put it back so I don't know if you saw I use the slide that you put in so I had a QR code in there, but I just used his QR code because it went to the same spot. So I what I didn't do is put a QR code on for the flow sheet, which I did I forgot to do I don't know that it really matters. It's pretty easy to find if you Google, it so.

I.

Well, that's kind of what I was thinking of doing is when that slide pops up. Say if you want to follow along, here's the link.

Right?

Here the flow sheet but they would have to copy paste it, which is fine.

Yeah.

OK, just thinking of different resources that we might want to just send to them.

Especially towards the end, some of those other links that we give.

Hum.

OK.

Look.

Does it look strange that I'm not looking at this screen or the camera?

I can't.

OK.

I cannot tell.

Hum.

Yep, Yep.

Yep.

Yeah, no problem.

Was it Oh so what's gonna happen as we near 4 o'clock is that at 4 on the dot uhm the guests total is going to start to grow you'll see that growing and so you might wait um like 60 seconds or 90 seconds until people are in the way you start talking?

Hi Shannon, one other random question.

I'm be guest.

Well, the students see all of us listed there with their titles.

And are they? Are we clickable?

'Cause if I click my snow bike and now see my email address.

Yep that's right.

OK, so we may get random emails during this whole thing too.

OK.

OK.

Good to know.

Yeah I haven't had a single email and doing all of them so far um but yeah they can see our titles they won't obviously see their own.

OK thanks.

Kevin I'm gonna um click broadcast video an you won't see me but I'll be with you in spirit.

OK.

Or maybe I'll let daily note dealing designed it.

Hi.

Hawaii.

You guys want me to do what I did earlier today and just focusing on the chat and then pop back up at the end.

OK.

God, that's fine so daily and I added You to the last slide I have or second to last slide that shows. Here is an academic coordinate academic advisor and so my intention is to do this. And then there's one last slide which has sea S specific information.

And then I will direct them that they can, you know, address their questions specifically to you, but my intentions to go back to the slide and leave this slide up and again mention if they have seas or admission specific questions that they can direct them to you, either in the chat or via email or whatever you prefer.

OK.

OK easy ones fine.

Then you want me to stay up here with you or do you want me to come by out till the end.

Whatever you feel like everyone else is.

OK I'm going to mostly focusing down there so I'm just going to take my face off then.

Yeah, that's fine. Everyone else is doing it, that's fine.

Bye bye bye bye.

OK I'm signing up but I'm here.

1.

Hi Mary.

OK.

Good.

OK thanks.

Kevin, do you know what happened with the parents eventually? If they are also invited to another city?

I believe I believe they are invited.

OK, good.

Uhm, but.

You know, we'll see how that goes.

Hum.

Hey guys it's me. So what we were able to do was send a parents invite to and then link them to the list of webinars available for them to render for. Uhm so it won't be you know. 15 different parents invites for each individual web and R but one invite driving them to a website that's got the all of the webinars listed which was two fold. It was a bandwidth issue and then also.

When you see the webinars in a list, it's actually pretty impressive. Uhm, it's not available on the admissions website. They haven't gotten to posting it yet, but it is available on the internal sees site and it's really nice.

OK nice cool.

OK.

Good thank you bye bye.

I always see everyone joining. We're just gonna wait a couple of minutes until everyone.

Gets in and connected.

I see some have already been active in the chat as Mary Bush posted. Please feel free to use the chat for questions to communicate with each other. We highly encourage that.

And again, you know, just waiting a couple minutes until everyone gets in and then we'll get started.

OK everyone, thanks for joining a let's get this show on the road. So welcome to Department of electrical engineering insiders. Look with respect to.

Apartment how we operate in which you have to look forward to joining you. Be as an EE undergraduate student. And again, congratulations if you're considering you be. It's a great place to be. You should be very proud of yourself for getting accepted and so just a couple of housekeeping notes. The Chat is available for you to post questions we have a couple of people monitoring the chat who will try to keep up with those answers. I will also try to answer some of those during the presentation.

And there will be a time after the presentation to ask questions as well. Additionally, if the questions are not answered, we will make sure we get them answered and make the answers available to you. And this webinar will be posted so that you're able to reference it at a later date. So again, I encourage you to use the chat to post questions so we can get those answered if you submit a question ahead of time. We do have record of those and we will address them.

During and after the presentation.

Alright, so very quickly just a quick shot. I look at our Department leadership, so doctor Jonathan Byrd is our chair myself giving the presentation. I am doctor Kevin Burke, my Co director of undergraduate studies is doctor Mike language who is also on the chat. Will be available to answer questions and then we have a nice group of staff who make our Department run. We have Kim, Chris, Mary Bush who is also on the line as our undergraduate.

Academic coordinator RE technician Jason and our graduate academic coordinator, Kathy So what is important to us as our people, our staff? Our students? That's what makes us run. So we just want to make sure we give everyone credit where credit is due. So again my name is doctor Kevin Burke. I will be the one presenting today and then we will have additional people available to answer questions In addition to a senior EE student who will be able to.

Shed some light on her experience.

So let's talk about why be an EEI mean. These pictures look quite comical, but reality says math, entertainment and communication. These three things that we are sorely in need of in these recent events.

They are a backbone supported by ES. You know everything that he is do affect your daily everyday life. I challenge you think about something that you do on a daily basis that doesn't require an EE but we are in everything you know in the past it was traditionally just make sure the lights come on, but now we're so much more than that. Now we're into the medical industry treating cancer.

Visualization enertainment animation were all over the place, so it's crucial. I feel that everyone should be easy, but that's OK. Everyone is not cut out to be ease. I realize that, but it's a great place to be your guaranteeing yourself a job for many, many years to come. Alright, so from our perspective my perspective an engineer it someone that can combine the science with and ingenuity to find solutions to new problems, problems we don't even know exist yet.

Will be solved by engineers, and that's just from the idea that we take the signs that's there and we apply it. We make it useful and we don't. We can memorize solution, but that's not what we do, right? We solve the challenges as they arise. That's what we do in Society. Society facing these problems and we step up to the challenge. We solve them. We use the resource we have at our fingertips to make things happen. So with that in mind, let's talk about really what do Y ES do?

And I know you hear the term engineer electrical engineer to be quite honest. When I was thinking about undergraduates, I thought an engineer drove a train and that was it. But I became educated. Nauman, watch, clench, near and so YES, they have their hands all over the place in a lot of different things.

From energy systems to power electronics we make small scale systems batteries. You know things that require Pico Watts or small milliwatts to power your phone. Little Motors and devices to big Mega Watts and voltage nativos to megavolts, driving the utility grid. Not electronics, and that'll optics. We work with materials. We discover, behaviors we manipulate, atoms, molecules, photons, electrons, to make things appear like they're not there.

Hands from this cloaking aspect, right memes and cats microelectronic mechanical systems very very small Microsystems where we can design labs and systems on a chip the size of a dime or smaller. Imagine that you can have blood work done on a dime. You can go to the pharmacy and by little kid that will give you these responses and then there is the things that are outside of norm, not the ordinary using plasma. So we give energy to electrons.

Irons in gases. We treat tumors. We can use it for sterilization, laser and photonics, unique sensors to detect fraudulent art, chemical weapons, and a whole lot more. We do a variety of things. This is a sample picture of a Mars Rover built by students as part of a massive competition. It incorporates a ton of things that you don't necessarily think that ES get their hands on.

Additionally, telecommunications you know 4G5G who knows 6G. This is a picture over here at top right where his graduate students and undergraduate engineers putting the Internet underwater. How did you communicate underwater signal processing, hiding information, and images, covert communications? And then there is classic sensors MW. We can map the surface of the Earth planets.

Reveal the heartbeat of a one inch fetus. Use it to solve a ton of problems that technology that's available to us. In addition, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth we're all pretty familiar with those. We use them on a regular basis, easier all over that without what we do. These technologies don't happen. And then the microelectronics we make 'em Yes, we turn sand into CPU and memory and then we have the ability to print your own electronics. You could even draw your own electronics now with pens.

I'm making for pretty cool, neat manufacturing methods, so this is just a little bit about what he is doing. The different fields. It's by no means exhaustive, but just to give you an idea of what you can do with an EE degree. So let's talk a little bit about the Department. Here you be. So this is our link to web page. I'm sure that will be available to you in the chat. In addition, as Department where about 3035 faculty.

And that number changes on a regular basis. Undergraduate enrollments approximately 400 up. Graduate Romans, about 400, three 55 now rankings are consistently rising, and when you were looking for a school, deciding on where you want to go and make a choice, you know it's not a bad choice. We are state school, part of the Sunni system, and we are ranked with the best. We are ranked with the best with respect to what you can do when you're here with the E degree.

We have a couple of minors that we know students have paired with this physics. Pretty obvious math, pretty obvious music are really unique combination. We do find that a lot of students engineers who started you be also have a love of music, an interesting music, either play an instrument played in a band, learn to write music and it's an interesting combination. And there are some people that have actually combine those two In addition to engineering and dance and a few other things.

Uh, we can double major combined degrees. We have a five year BS MBA where at the end of five years you graduate you have a BS in electrical engineering and an MBA. We also have a five year BS Ms where in five years you would complete the Masters degree and also a Bachelor Science degree. One of the nice things about school engineering and specifically E is that you are assigned an EE faculty member. So once you become a sophomore and you're into the E curriculum.

You will be assigned. In fact, you get to choose an efax. Remember that you will have contact with throughout your time here, right? And you have the ability to ask a variety of questions. Relate akarere courses, decisiones research, Graduate School jobs, anything you want to know. If faculty members are here to help, and then the nice thing is, we are a better credit it, which means the whole school of Engineering is a bet accredited, which means that you're eligible for PE licensing.

Something that you want to pursue and there are some graduate schools that require that your undergraduate degree be from an Abe accredited institution. So we are a better credit, so that's just a little bit about the Department. Now let's dive into the curriculum little bit and see what that looks like.

So this is the Department of electrical engineering flow sheet. Every major every engineering major at you be within the school of engineering has one of these flow sheets and if you Google you be engineering flow sheets you will get to choose your particular major and this is the flow sheet that you see and so what's highlighted on the screen. Here is the 4th year which I will come back and talk to in a second. But what this shows is your plan for your four years here at you be.

So all of the required courses here in year one, along with some of your you be curriculum courses, which is a general education requirement. And then you have your fall sophomore in spring requirements and then you junior fall and spring requirements and then your senior year and so what's nice about the E senior year is that it's very flexible. You actually get to choose tech electives that are of interest to you.

So if you're interested in photonics and energy systems, you can take a course in each one of those. If you're interested in communications, you can take a course in any one of those as well. The idea is it's flexible so that you can choose to take courses that are of interest to you. If you wanted to intern, and I'll talk a little bit more about internships in little bit if you wanted to enter it, you can work during the semester and still be able to complete your courses if you wanted to study abroad, which I'll also talk about in a little bit.

You're able to study abroad, and, um, experience engineering on a global scale. So the nice thing about me is that as we get to the senior year, there is 16 and 13 hours in the fall and spring semester respectively. And that means that there's time there's time for you to do extracurricular activities, experience you're learning, which we know is what employers are looking for when their recruiting students, and so if you've joined this web and R, and you're not sure you want to be.

EE Ann, you're thinking about another major, but you want to think about an E minor. That's totally possible to write, and so just what's highlighted now is if you were thinking about an E minor, you would still have to take these core required courses and no matter what engineering you are, you would.

You don't have to take these courses right? So you still set up to do that. Calc one calc, two physics, one differential equations, physics two and physics 2 lab. That's the core courses and then on top of that you would have the E core courses. So if you were thinking of E minor, you would start with one 78, which is digital principles circuit analysis and then signals and systems and then once you were going to go further to complete the minor you would choose three additional upper division courses.

And only the junior is highlighted here would you can also take 400 level senior level courses as part of your additional upper division courses. So really I just want to show that the program is flexible. If you're thinking about E minor like you're not sure you want to E major like.

You're thinking and what we do see is we see a variety of combination. So mechanical engineering and E minor biomedical engineering and E minor. And so they all work well together. Of course, again, like I said beginning, I think everyone should be ease, but if it's not your first true love, we have an option where you can still experience the EE course requirements in the experience, right? the E minor is something that's viable no matter how you look at it.

Alright, so specifically within the Department, right? We have four major areas and this is not all that we do. This is just where our faculty are grouped around and how we best we can play and work with each other, right? So again, signals, communications and networking so 4G5G6G drone communications, solid state electronics, unique materials to do a variety of things, optics and photonics so you know doing cool things with sensors.

In light and a electrons in materials and then energy systems, you know Green Energy.

You know, unconditional, unconventional, rather energe sources, batteries, etc. It all fits into all of these areas, so no matter what you're interested in you be. We can find something that will be of interest to you. And again, this makes for lots of choices for electives. These are just again the four areas, and you're not required to stick all in Enerji or stick all in optics. You can take a smattering, of course, is across the board.

All around right to get your experience to see what you really want to do to see if you want to dive into anyone of these areas a little bit deeper and the realization is once you go out to get that job, the employers know that they don't expect you to know everything on the earth to do the job they hire you for. They expect that you're going to understand how to approach a problem and how to solve a problem. Of course, with some background information and some underlying tools that you've gotten from your careers.

Where you be.

But the idea is you have to be able to learn right? And that's what employers are looking for. Once you have a BS degree, it proves you can learn, proves you can approach a problem, it proves you can find information and be able to solve the problems that they need you to solve.

So after these areas, you look at these areas and then you decide a hot what error might going to get into. Again, these are just some key industries and by no means an exhaustive list, right? Communications, manufacturing, bio engineering, semiconductors, electronics, energean, Electric Power, Transportation, Automotive aerospace, huge computers, obviously huge. And then there's other professions, right? So that would be academics like we are.

Faculty lawyers is a huge, huge market for IP law intellectual property law and then also in the business area. Lots of room for MBA with technical training right there's lots of resources out there and again this is not an exhaustive list of where are ease end up this is just some of the things we know that our UBES when they graduate take?

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And so the ultimate answers, where are our graduates employed here is just again a brief list. This is by no means exhaustive, right? Companies all over the world all over the US, but they cover all of the different fields. Again, communications manufacturing, file engineering, electronics, semiconductors, other professions. M&T is a bank, they have a very high cyber security need. As with any industry, social media computing.

Transportation, logistics, power and energy. So any any of these companies in these areas apply ESN do you need thing? Is these companies all have you be ease working at them so set your sights high wherever you want to end up. It's extremely possible all these companies have hired UBES. Not to mention just ease. But again you be ease people that have come out of the seats that you're thinking of coming to in the fall.

Alright, and so these companies when they come to campus through for our career fair or they do interviewing through our career services office which we have Bullseye powered by handshake and an awesome career office career services office, they work with companies to bring them here. They work with our students to perfect their resumes and get opportunities out there for the students we know from these employers that they want to know what else you've done.

It's great that you're going to sit in a classroom and become educated in the classroom, but they want to know what else you've done and for us here you be. And in EE we view that as experiential learning. It's a crucial part of the experience. You have to get out there and do things. If you scan this QR code. If you just put your device camera up to that and scan it, it will take you to this professional development blueprint page and this professional blueprint has been developed by our director of experiential learning.

That basically says, hey, as you're a freshman, which it says year one, here are the things that you should be doing to set yourself up to be successful. Here are the things that you should be doing as a sophomore as a junior to gain experience, to do things aside from just sitting in the classroom because employers want to know that you can apply what you've learned in the classroom to real life. Things that you can think outside the box that you can manage your responsibilities.

And do so in a way that makes you marketable that they're happy to bring you onto their team so that you can be a valuable member. And again, here just some pictures of students working. This is a students working in the electrical Tinker lab, which is a school of Engineering lab where you can take electrical projects and go and work on. That's by the way, separate from our electronics lab that we have. There is engineering intramurals, where it's like Sports Intramurals. Except no sports you put together in a team to solve problems.

And it's pretty cool because companies provide these problems, which means you are getting exposed to companies real world problems and companies are getting exposed to you. And then there's internships. In co-ops this is a shot at the career fair, and then we have senior design where these are seniors working and building on their capstone project. All part of experiential learning. So again, I encourage you to go look at this experience. You learning this professional development blueprint and see what it's about and as much as I want you all to come to you, be and choose you be.

You should be doing this no matter where you go matter what school you go too. You should be doing it, but of course you're gonna pick you be so that the experience will be amazing. Amazing so I'm going to now step two additional opportunities for exponential learning.

And So what we're looking at is just tons of options. So you be user research. One institution. What that means is we have faculty doing research, cutting edge research, and we do X amount of millions of dollars researching year. What that means for you as students is that there's opportunities. Simply, that's what it means. Faculty are looking for students. Yes, some faculty take undergraduate some Dome, but some faculty do take undergraduates, some even take him as young as freshmen. But the idea is get to do something.

Outside of just sitting in a classroom plan to fit that in your schedule, make time for it. It's all important and we have ways that you can find these opportunities. There is undergraduate research through the experiential learning network. There's something called the UV project portal, where the problems are deep and interesting. Their problems that faculty are solving on a daily basis. There's also honors grants. If you were in the Honors Program, there's not to secure funding to work on what you want to work on.

And even if you're not an honest program, there's an opportunity to secure funding from the experiential learning network to work on projects individually or as a team with other students. Then there's internships in co-ops, so we don't necessarily have a coop program, but he is set up so that you could, in turn from a summer into your fall semester during the fall semester or spring semester, and we are able to give you credit for that. We have something called internship class.

Where if you work X amount of hours an your job responsibilities or technical, you can get 3 credits of internship for that and that will replace one of your technical electives that you must take.

As a senior and I'm just going to flip back to that slide very quickly so out here you have some technical electives electives that you have to take there's 5 to be exact if you in turn every time it's a different internship or a different job responsibility up to 2 experiences you can replace 2 of the 2 of these courses with internship credit so it's pretty neat that you can actually get to do that and then combine with these.

Internships and Co op Sarkar services I mentioned there really awesome they work well with employers to bring up to campus with you to get your resume up and so that you can have access to employers and then there's faculty connections who work with these companies who know what's happening and then of course within the Department we have experimental courses where you can put your hands on stuff some state of the art facilities we have labs have been upgraded to have equipment that match which you would see in industry our computers are upgraded on a regular basis.

Our faculty there doing the cutting edge research they know what's out there they know the next crucial thing that's coming and then as I mentioned before you get 101 mentoring directly by E faculty your side once you're a second year student and you get to experience that first hand and some of these pictures here so these are 2 of our students doing undergraduate research and presenting Luke here in the bottom actually want an NSF fellowship which is a very prestigious fellowship it's worth about 130 thousand dollars.

And you get to take that with you wherever you decide to go to Graduate School over here on the right the Top right you can see just some projects research projects that students are working on so here's drones they're working on Jones to fly them and create a Internet network on the spot so if you have bad coverage if you're in the middle of nowhere with no Internet you can put up a series of drones to create a network and then some unique things with materials and light to cool a building from the building codings on the glass.

And then to illuminate self illuminate signs at night when people are driving lots of cool stuff going on you just have to have a curiosity and you can get into it so on Top of our experiential learning opportunities there's also study abroad you know students have the ability to go to a variety of countries and this is just a smattering of stick couple to pursue the E curriculum in these other countries when you go abroad the courses are taught in English.

You pay you be tuition you just have to pay for yourself to get there an room and board and then Department also offers some study abroad scholarships to help defray the costs of your travel or whatever you want to use that money for so this is a great experience I encourage you to take a look at it to try and study abroad you can go for a semester you can go for a year you can go for a summer you can go for a winter.

Even if it's just you want to cover one of your you be curriculum classes and so you be studied abroad office works with us is E faculty to make this happen and custom programs are created all the time but study abroad again is another opportunity that's pretty cool too.

To investigate and so one last informal opportunity is to student clubs right so there's a ton of student clubs on campus ranging from robotics to SAE Society of automotive engineers the UV spaceballs who built this Rover as part of a massive grant the nano set 2 or building satellites to actually put in space and then engineering for sustainable world who are interested in sustainable engineering.

So this is a solar powered smoothie card and then this last one here is the IEEE the Institute for electrical electronics engineer is this is a student club is a micro mouse it fits in the Palm of your hand you put it in a maze and it has to learn the maze to navigate through the maze and then there's prizes awarded are the fastest time that that can happen built by students this vehicle up here is an autonomous vehicle designed by students where it has to navigate a course.

Based on radar and video this is a clean snowmobile right in the middle here so Society of automotive engineers they have a team that is working on this clean snowmobile and the idea is to be as fuel efficient and to go the farthest distance on the least amount of fuel.

And again I mentioned the Rover which is built by a team of students from here at you beat to compete at the Johnson Space Center while being controlled here in Buffalo it's pretty cool you just get to get your hands on some really neat stuff and only you can figure out how you fit in but you have to explore right you really have to explore and have that desire to just do something and so the next slide I want to talk about is going to be wages.

Money which everyone's looking for and so from the US Department of Labor the median wage I stress the word median for each 102,000 so that doesn't mean that when you graduate you're going to be making 102 thousand that means that over the course of all the ease that are out there some people make less than that some people make more than that so the median is 102 thousand with respect to jobs available jobs ease always are leading the market and available jobs right always.

This is just what happens everything he's got an EE perspective to it we need ease there's no doubt now with respect to UBREY graduates this is what we're seeing approximately 70% of the E graduates are between 60 and 80 K and this is also this salary breakdown is also going to be highly geographic dependent and highly dependent on the size of company that you go to work for right so it really depends on those 2 factors.

But most of our graduates are between 1680 K with just a BS degree and then the other stat that I would like to point out is almost also this is 53 and 46 are in the field of EE or in a closely related field so not specifically maybe electrical engineering but maybe electronics or security but related to EE so that's roughly about 99% of all our graduates.

End up in the field which is nice to hear.

And see and so one other thought process I mentioned there was the Institute of electrical and electronics engineers that's a professional organization and we have a student club on campus there the one that built the micro mouse that had that little mouse that runs amazed there's approximately 124 thousand members worldwide it's the largest technical profession society out of all of the engineering disciplines and there's just resources that means there's power in numbers there's resources there's journals there's information.

There is technical articles that you can consistently go and look up and learn and read about and so engineering is about lifelong learning an IEEE makes it very easy to happen In addition to that they have a ton of resources to enhance your ability resume skills assessment mock interviews by the way all of this is offered here on campus by our crew services so you've got additional resources that you can go to from our technical professional society.

And again 124 thousand student members that just means there's lots of students out there and how easy is broken down where the jobs are so again this is just back from 2018 and a year and a half now it takes awhile to publish the data but artificial intelligence reeses huge robotics huge smart and green enerji huge wearables 3 D printing medical image in the future medical science so these are the areas where papers are being published.

In IEEE so that means that there's no electrical engineering perspective to all these fields although they are not directly EE they play a huge part in what he is do right it played a huge part in what you do.

Alright so let me give you some final thoughts so ultimately join EE there's no bad option right everything any job you get EE you can make it work for you you can tailor your experience when you hear it you be to make sure you hit the classes that are of interest to you and you can make sure that you find a job and internship a student club to get you that extra curricular activity to make sure you have an experiential learning opportunity whether it's undergraduate research.

Etc etc tinkering there's always opportunity and this picture down here is just meant to say it's you and you choose your path right No 2 paths are the same but you have whatever your goal is you set your goal and you make your way to that goal through a variety of methods and so are really really final final thoughts is that whether you end up in grad school which is a viable option 2 are graduates going and getting some of the biggest grad schools including Stanford and all the other ones.

You be is up here as well or you go to industry and again I stress eat in the Top 25 best jobs in America according to Glassdoor no matter what you be prepared you for either one of these opportunities.

And so this is a couple of data points over here on the right so.

So the question is you be has prepared me for life outside of college so this 61% and 16% which makes about 78% again feel that I'm sorry the other way so 80% feel that you be has prepared them for life outside of college and then.

Down here what percentage of the respondents are either working or in Graduate School and this is approximately 97% of the respondents are either working or in Graduate School and there were 41 observation so this survey went out about 110 people so even if you extrapolate this out to 110 people this is still a very very positive number to see that once you graduate from UBY you've gotten options and you've got plans.

That can happen no matter what.

OK so that's the formal end of the information that I wanted to convey to you so here's what we have on the line here to answer questions there's myself doctor Mike langberg Mike if you want to pop on and say hi really quick.

Hey hi everyone is Thanksgiving for that excellent presentation. Yeah, we're here. I've been here in the chat and we're all here to answer your questions.

Excellent thanks Mike we have Mary Bush undergraduate coordinator Mary are you there each wanna pop on and say hi.

Hi everybody um doctor Burke. We actually did have a question come through that I help answer.

Excellent.

Yep.

Hi.

OK sure could we hold on one second will come back to the questions alright excellent no problem dalene if you want to pop on great if not that's OK too we have daily and who is an engineering academic advisor from the school of engineering to answer questions thank you dalene and then we also have an E senior Serena Serena are you on the line can you just pop on and say hi so serene as a senior electrical engineering student member of Society of Hispanic engineers and she's had experience a ton of opportunities from internship ha ha.

Hi can you hear?

That you are Serena say hi I soum yeah she's done a variety of things in turn study abroad so she's also available to answer questions and then so I'm just going to advance a slide here so the current slide we're looking at is just you be specific information UBE specific information where you can have our homepage our catalog and then our course flowsheet.

Yeah, can you hear me?

Then for school specific information from the engineering advising office so with respect to AP credits or other earn college credits or transfer credit or S 80 or ask questions Daily News here to answer those questions and feel free to put those in the chat so thank you everyone we are going to just monitor the chat right now uh Serena can I just give you a couple minutes to just say a few things about why you chose you be.

Absolutely.

OK so I chose you be because I will. I come from a small suburban town an I wanted to go to a big school that was diverse and had a lot of opportunities and that is exactly what you be was and it's also the best engineering school I got into.

Plus the good Suni Price. Uhm, I loved it from the very beginning.

And.

Yes, so that was the reason I chose you be. And the reason I chose electrical engineering and stayed in it is because like doctor Burke was saying there's so many options at one point I was thinking of switching to computer engineering, but with electrical engineering you can do computer engineering. Plus you have a bunch of other opportunities and I was able to narrow down exactly what I liked indie. So if you have any questions let me know.

Can you talk a little bit about your study abroad experience and and what you did?

Yes, so I studied abroad in Spain. It was one of the best experiences of my life.

I I spent a lot of time on the beach, but I also earned 7 credits from that's cool. So my 2 technical electives I filled.

And I also took to UBE classes remotely, so I had no problem getting those credits articulated an. I'm going to graduate on time and I learn a bit of Spanish. I met amazing people. I was able to go.

To an engineering school there, and it was also affordable because Spain is.

The the cost of living is a lot cheaper than here. My rent was $200 a month and I also subleased my apartment here. So I actually made money and that that paid for my tickets and everything so I know people think it's expensive but.

It can actually be affordable and also, like you mentioned, there are scholarships available so is amazing and the fact that I could get my degree requirements and take EE classes and also be in Spain, I think that's really rare and most engineering programs don't have that.

OK excellent thanks arena for the words of encouragement so now I'd like to have Mary come back on the line and if we can answer any questions that appeared in chat that I can provide some insight on.

There's a question there about study abroad. Does it have to be a full semester or a full year? There's a lot of different options, and I've seen students do a little bit of everything so I have students who do go for a full foller spring semester. Some have gone for a whole year. That's on the rare side, but have seen students do that. Mostly what I've seen just again, my experience is students going during the summer or during the winter.

An partially it's because they don't want to be away from, you know, the US that long. Don't want to go for a full four months. Maybe they want it to be just one month or just two months, or it's because they only want to take one or two classes and have a lot of time to explore the city, the country that they're in.

And just get a really good taste for those surroundings and not spend time working on four or five classes. So I think I see someone went to the most, but you've got a ton of options there.

Excellent I'll also add to that until within EE like I said we have established relationships with institutions which means you can go for a full semester and not fall behind or like daily and said you can just go for summer or winter session or whatever makes sense.

OK Mary what you got.

We had a question about the robotics club opportunities on an specifically a vex robotics club.

Excellent so so are we do have a UV robotics club and you be robotics and split amongst a variety of department's mechanical electrical computer science and computer engineering we do have an undergraduate vex team they actually won their division this year an was supposed to go to Nationals in Tennessee but Unfortunately do our current situation that was cancelled but we do have X team and they did very well again we encourage you to.

Bring any experiences you had we did not have a vex team 2 years ago 2 students start as a freshman and they were interested in starting a vexed email like Hey we want to do this and they made it happen and Justin just 2 years look where they've gotten they actually made it to the national championships in Tennessee so it's pretty cool so yes we do have a vex team and yes they are doing well.

Right.

Ah.

OK.

Brave the student with the question, is there any of that? But we will be recorded so go back and look at the recording.

So I will quickly repeat the UV does have a robotics team that has a vex team it was started a couple years ago by a couple of students who had an interest they came out of high school and in just 2 years they've done very well and ended up at the national competition in Tennessee which Unfortunately canceled this year but they did make it.

All right and then there was some discussion earlier um.

That uh students were looking at computer engineering an EE and computer science and E and could you talk a little bit about how those 2 programs kind of fit together.

Absolutely so I'm just going to go back to the flow flow sheet here for a minute so fundamentally speaking computer engineering is part of the engineering program and a Lincoln step in at anytime and talk about the requirements but ultimately speaking if you're looking at programming you really really like to program with little hardware interface not dealing with hardware as much that's going to be computer science if you are looking at a little bit of programming.

And a little bit of hardware the combination of the 2 that's going to be computer engineering if you're looking for mostly hardware with a little bit of programming that's going to be mostly electrical and my thought processes as Serena had mentioned when she spoke that when you get an EE degree it allows you to do the computer engineering job because you have programming courses in EE and you have embedded systems courses in EE but however if you just get a computer engineer engineering degree.

You're not able to do some of the other EY jobs because you don't get that other EE depth of.

Uh, of course, is an theoretical material, but again, it's not about which is better, it's about which is more suited to what you want to do. If your interest lies in programming, you should pursue that. If your interest lies in the interface between programming and hardware, you should pursue that as well, so again, it's whatever best you feel.

Makes, uh makes sense for you.

OK, any other questions that.

We do.

We've had a lot of questions about minors, which is great because we have a lot of minors when you're majoring in anything that you be, you can minor in almost anything.

And I say almost because there are some majors in some minors. They just have so many classes that are similar. It wouldn't be much of a difference if you were to add that as a minor. So a question just came through and do a minor in EE with a computer engineering major.

I'd have to double check with the associate Dean, but I don't top my head. I don't think that was going to be possible because they are so many similar classes, but with the tech electives, I think doctor Lambert mentioned this earlier within. This goes with all of our majors during senior year. You have the opportunity to take tech electives so you can take those in any of our.

Department of our engineering Department to add those into kind of like focus on one area. If you want to. Or you can take a couple different kinds if you want just more of a broad experience that you can do is just again, there's so many similarities in the same way someone would not be able to do a computer science and computer engineering. It's one of the other because they're so similar, but otherwise you be his over 60 minors, so there are a lot of different things that you can add and there is.

Policia University wide policies out of School of engineering policy that whenever you're going to be adding a minor tear degree, you have to have at least three classes of don't overlap. So the question I get the most is math. Can I add a math minor and didn't think they'd only need one or two more classes then to get the math minor? Their little disappointed to find out that they can't do that to the system for the system knows, and so you always want to have at least three classes then that are not overlapping with the major in the minors. So just a heads up there.

OK, so let me just add to that also daily and so for what we do what we do see for something easy students is out here in the senior year you have 3 technical electives that can be from any discipline is daily mentioned and what people do is they do take those from computer science because they want more of a CS focus.

The one thing I will caution you said if you're thinking about doing that, a lot of these courses have prerequisites that you have to take prior to. So just if you thinking that's a plan, look ahead. See you. Of course you need to take and then you can figure out how to fit them in in the undergraduate career as you approach your senior year.

Yeah, and if you're wondering how, how would you even know what the prequisites are? Certainly you can ask us advisers, but an undergraduate catalog which you can do in DuckDuckGo or Google search and just put in you be 2020 undergraduate catalog all of our majors, all of our miners are combined degree programs. Literally everything is there, and so you can do a course search. There you can search by topic. So if let's say you want to look at any course that has robotics, for example in the course title, or in the course description, you can see those.

So that's a great place to explore courses and see what a lot of your options are going to be.

Additionally, if you've navigated to these flow sheets while I was presenting, these are interactive flow sheets online, and if you mouse over anyone in these boxes, it will highlight for you a prerequisite chain described by the colors here on the bottom of the page when you're on the interactive flow sheets. This is just a screenshot, so there's not going to be in not going anywhere. Any interaction here, but if you Google you be engineering flow sheets, it will come up and you can select your electrical engineering flow sheet.

And as you mouseover courses, it will show you what the prerequisite requirements are and like daily and said the catalog also will show you those as well because the courses you may want to take may not be listed on here. So use both together. You should be good.

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Can you address Connors question about our? Do we know and CAD? Uhm, what he can do there to be more prepared for EE courses?

OK. Let me just read that question do you have any specific recommendations on what we can do now? Are doing look at it cetera to be more prepared for some EE courses, OK, so specifically for EE. We don't do drawing for CAD from that perspective. It is a useful skill to have and we see where most of that comes in is when students join the student clubs when they're working on projects for competitions, etc. You pick up that skill set that is useful so if you're able to.

Dabble or play with solid works day or something like that. Before you get here, it elevates your level of ability and readiness to actually get in and do meaningful work with respect to ARD, we know and programming are microprocessors and microcontrollers. Anything like that? Any experience is going to help because you're going to get those right away. In 178 it's digital principles. You learn about ones and zeros.

And then as you get to be soft Morris, you've got coding here ES 240, which is C and then throughout your junior year your projects. You work on our using code in using Matlab using Python using CC and then you have embedded systems. So it's woven throughout the curriculum, so anything any experience at all will be useful to you. Whether it's Python C ARD, we know, any language, anything at all will be useful.

Ah.

I see a great question there about when can you start registering for classes, which is fantastic. I'm glad you're excited to come So what we normally have is that tuition deposits would be due May 1.

And we start registering new freshman new transfer students in May. Will probably still going to start in May for anyone who does put down deposit earlier and starts working with orientation office and getting all the proper documents in. But this year the tuition deposit has moved out to June one, with everything happening with COVID-19. And so there's a little more time there. But as soon as students have all of the documentation for the orientation office, the the medical documentation as well to our Health Center.

Once those are in then we can get you registered for classes and if a student is very typical. But if it's very straightforward, what you're bringing in, it's easy for us to figure out. We don't have to look at transfer course articulations. It's not very complicated. We can just put you in the freshman year classes and send your schedule through email really quick.

If there's some questions that we have, if you perhaps already have your English requirement done and we're looking at a different kind of General Education Course, BBC course for you to take in the pathways, then we're going to want to have a conversation, and our office would contact you about that. Then we'll have a phone conversation, will talk about some of your interest in some of the things that you need to do in some of the things that we're going to do with putting you in classes, and will get that all sorted out. So really course registration happens the entire summer, but will be starting in May.

Daily and could you also answer the question about common scholarships that people in the program receive? I know we've got a high New York popular so.

Yeah so.

And you know, it's funny, but that I am just last week. Got on a committee to review for scholarships, but I literally just started last week.

So I don't know too much about it yet.

From what I know so far, most students should apply for the FAFSA. You know benefits apply for the fact that if you have not already to see what kind of in you? Can receive so you've got your federal loans, which are called pedal. You've got your federal loans. I'm sorry federal grants that are called pal. You've got your tap grants from New York State. Then there's Excelsior, which is the newer New York State Grant and that one is different than tap. They have different requirements and then there's the stem scholarships, the stem scholarship is one that I see the most often.

Um, so definitely talk to financial aid though about what you qualify for, that's going to the most important part. So step one is submitting the FAFSA when you get your student in, report back. It's going to tell you what you qualify for and confirm everything on there.

We academic advisors can't even see everything that you qualify for. It's a personal financial information so we can only see so much. So I definitely recommend talking to a financial advisor for really, really detailed questions, especially if you want to talk about different kinds of loans.

Parent plus loans and subsidized loans and unsubsidized loans with there's always different things, so the phone number for financial aid is 716-645-8232.

But again, the stem scholarship is the one that I see the most often for sure. There's another website that's been around.

Hello, how long it was since I was a student so well over 20 years but it's called fast web.

And fast Web is a a website, a database or students can apply to scholarships and it's open to students of all majors of all kinds. An philanthropists give money, you're applying for different scholarships, some require essays, some don't. Some require you to be red haired and left handed. I mean it's got this for everything, so definitely check out fastweb.com so you can see you can apply to anything that you qualify for that you're interested in. But like I said, financial aid office and financial advisors are great resource.

And that 6458232.

Dalene

OK, well the questions do we have so we have about 5 minutes left in the formal kewene. So if you have any questions please feel free to put them in a chat.

And then the chat will will remain open for awhile for you all to communicate with each other and you know, have a ball and you know.

Do you think?

Well, there's a question and I do not know the answer. Maybe you could speak to this doctor. Burke, it says for Ronald I notice differential equations is before calculus 3 instead of afterward, is our specific reason for that.

Wow, pretty astute. Let me go back to the full sheet here. So yes, differential equations here is before count 3, mainly because with respect to circuits E 202 there is a portion of each two towards in the semester that uses some of differential equations.

Stuff that you would learn in the beginning part of differential equations is used at the end part of 202, so it's a corequisite that we have. Students register for Calc 3.

Serial information is useful for engineering, but not course dependent, which is why we see the swap here for ease and a couple other majors. We will see this swap that cow three happens before differential equations, but this is mainly because we have this requirement in E 202 for some differential equations.

Excellent question.

Do you mean do you happen to know if the deposit deadline is different to accept a scholarship?

OK.

Thanks.

You know, I don't think that one. I can't tell you 100% certainty, but I do not think that one has changed. I think it's only the general deposit that changed to June 1. The scholarship fund has not changed as far as any announcements that I've seen.

OK.

I'm actually scrolling through the questions that have already been submitted, so I'm looking for anything that we might not have answered yet.

Did see a lot of questions about AP credit, which is great if you have any additional questions you can definitely email me.

Or any one of the other advisors in our office and we can help you out. I did link to the chart so you can see that chart. There could definitely varies a bit depending if you have 3, four, or five.

And everyone situation is a little bit different. Like I mentioned in the answer in a chat, you might want to decline an AP credit and then take the class again.

If you're not completely comfortable with it, so everyone's going to be a little bit different on that. One thing that we did not get into in the chat, but would certainly comes up pretty often, is transfer credit. So when a student is transferring classes, maybe you're currently taking them through local Community College and taking them while you're in high school.

So the Taurus database is a great place to look its tourist buffalo.edu.

And you do not have to set up an account to log in. I never have anybody can use it. You can do a search by school and then put in the abbreviation for the class. So let's say for example, you're currently taking calculus one, so your local Community College and it starts with M80. We could put M80 in there and then you see the list on the left of the college where you're taking it on the right of you be an artist MTH and it will show you the articulation equivalency of the course you want to bear in mind that sometimes it might take two classes somewhere else to equal 1 class at you be.

If you're coming from maybe a two year school that happens not too often, mostly happens with foreign language, but sometimes with math.

You'll also want to notice that there are sometimes expiration dates, start dates and expiration dates, and the reason for that is that sometimes schools will change their core subscription or the content of the class maybe would book they're using what will chapters they go over and then suddenly it's not really equivalent to our class anymore, so you want to pay attention to the expiration dates. And of course, as I mentioned, if you have any questions at all, contact me or any of the other advisors in the office, because we can certainly double check that and go over that with you and when you're filling out your orientation data form.

Those are some of the questions on there. What transfer credits do you have? What AP credits you have? So we advisors use that when we're getting you registered in classes for the fall, and so if there's anything at all that you have any credit that you're aware of. Make sure you put it on that form because we don't want you to repeat something that you've heard the great great forwarding already paid for it that people would be terrible. So let us know about everything. If you have any questions, give us a Holler and let us know.

OK.

You're caught up.

By any final questions, Mary any last minute once pop up or anything that we didn't answer, OK excellent. So at this point Serena do you have anything you want to add or you OK? Anybody have any questions specifically for Serena student to student?

I just want to say that, uh, I genuinely love you be.

It's been really good to me. I miss it a lot. Being remote right now and I like truly suggest coming here from the bottom my heart. Oh that's all.

Excellent, thank you. So one thing I didn't do was tell a little bit about me so I told me you'd be life for my undergrad, my MSN, my PhD or all from you. Be I originally from New York City also came here to go to school and have never gone back so I do feel like it's a really great place to be and you should really think about, you. Know coming to you be.

I'm also you be lifer.

I am my high school is right down the street from the University so I didn't go very far and I commuted in I lived at home since I was only 10 minutes away you be with the only school that I applied to.

I didn't even go to the open house. I was just familiar with the campus from living near it.

So in love with you be worked on campus.

And I originally was going to go into neuropsychology, but I just fell in love with being at you. Been working in higher education student life, office, career services, diversity, orientation. I worked in all those offices as an undergraduate and I loved it. So then I stayed at you. Be again. Only school I applied to Fry Masters, got my higher education degree and then again you was the only school I wanted to be.

I didn't work at a couple colleges look different summers, but always come back to you being so I've been adviser for.

16 yes 16 years now.

Yeah, right?

Uh-huh

I'm just going to join that party. I'm gonna be so I did my undergraduate degree here. Um was the only school I applied to because it was close by. I live down the street, so yes, I was a computer from home. Save a little money there and then I went and got my Masters. So actually graduated undergrad in 2008 when the economy tanked at that point. So I said no, I'm not going to find a job. I'm going to do my Masters, so I got my Masters in education and same thing. Just kind of looked at a few other schools but.

He was the smart financial choice at the time as well. I loved it here so stayed and then not working here and really enjoy working with the group of Engineers and engineering faculty. So yeah, it's a great fit in a great place.

Alright, so with that we will all say thank you. The chat will stay open for you to all communicate with each other. Network, network, network. That's what it's about. Enjoy the time and we hope to see you in the fall. And if you have any questions that were not answered, please feel free to email any of us or submit them to the general you be engineering question which you can find off the engineering web page or just give us a call and we're happy to answer them for you.

But good luck everyone. Stay safe and again I remind you to chat will stay open so you walk in, communicate with each other and with that will sign off. Thanks very much for joining and we'll see you later.