Engineering Information Session

Hello everyone, my name is leanna. I am a fourth year industrial engineering major here at Georgia Tech. Before we get started with today's presentation, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. I'm originally from Miami, FL and I have been a student here ever since my freshman year. I have been involved with the Society of Hispanic Profession Engineers, the Hispanic recruitment team, the office for minority education, and the Center for engineering education in diversity.

My favorite thing about tech so far, though, goes beyond any of these experiences an maybe even outside of what I've learned in the classroom. And it goes to the people that I've met here at Georgia Tech. I've had the opportunity to not only meet my lifelong friends, but I've also met us an incredible support system that has been there to push me to truly become the best version of myself.

So to start things off today.

Misery known institution specially for its size and diversity. But even though we're large school, there are plenty of resources here that will help you navigate it.

I was actually having a conversation with my roommate's the other day about the research that we've used through our time here, and it came to the conclusion that there are three different resources that I utilize every semester.

The first one is at Time Management Workshop where I sit one on one with an advisor and we worked through my schedule and my priorities.

That I have throughout the year, such as classes on campus jobs and any circular activities.

Hey, we prioritize everything accordingly so that I have time to be on top of all of my student responsibilities and I also have time to take care of myself and go to the park. Which is my favorite thing to do here in Atlanta.

I also need to use other tutoring sessions, so here we have a program which let's are students have one on one tutoring for a specific class. So on a weekly basis I can go to the tutor, which is a student who has done really well in this course before and we can go through any other topics that I might have been struggling with, and we also have group tutoring sessions which are more in preparation for exams and quizzes where another student in the course who has mastery on the subject or.

The topic prepares specific questions that we can run through to ensure that will be prepared for that test or quiz as well and less resource that I'd like to use of every semester is going to get professional career advice so our individual departments here actually have the opportunity to go to someone who will look over your resume and who you can talk to about the different career paths that you can take as an engineer an for me at least, it's always help clear up any questions that I have, even how I should manage myself in the work force.

You have an internship coming up.

So.

With that we are big school and right I but I would say to definitely not let that intimidate you.

If I'm 100% honest with you guys, when I was looking at colleges and universities rankings with something that I utilized to narrow down the list and make my life a little easier as a senior and for sure my parents were happy that I wasn't looking at the 30 plus schools. But ever since I've been here in college rankings is something that I have not looked at more than maybe once a year when all the rankings come out. I have found that the true value behind going to a top institution.

Really boils down to the people that you meet here and the professor specifically an for me, I've had the opportunity to see that in the classroom the first time was actually during my junior year when one of my professors was teaching us how to utilize a software that's currently used in industry an in her lecture she was showing us a specific metric that you could get utilizing a button and the button had a very strange name. It actually.

The name of the button itself by utilizing suffer was two last names, but together.

An you know I remember sitting there the whole class and thinking it's so strange that the one of the last names is my professor's last name, and after the classes was brought up and actually our professor said by it wasn't strange at all that this was actually the product of her research and that last name was indeed hers. So it was really inspiring to be able at that moment, at least, to realize that the person who's teaching me as a person who's doing something that's currently used in industry by thousands of individuals.

To just knowing that I had the opportunity to learn from the people who are truly defining, at least for me, industrial engineering and what that is was coming inspiring. So I have found that to be honestly the Big Valley behind going to a top ranked institution.

So with that we have 11 majors within the college, along with multiple minors, 3 tracks and certificates. You can also earn a Masters here by extending your time at Tech by just one year we have RB SMS program, which is a program in which as a second year say using induction engineers. An example as a second year industry engineering major you apply to this program with just having a specific GPA and if you get accepted in it.

You will be on a pipeline that will start.

Mixing your classes for undergrad and Masters when you get to your 4th year and swapping some of those classes out. So by the time that you are a fifth year here, you're graduating with an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree.

So my parents are actually really happy about this opportunity for me because it allowed me to. It saved Me Time. It also saved me paying an extra years worth of tuition for Masters program.

Um, however, though, aside from that, I've also taken my time here to explore truly my different areas of interest. Maybe as many of you might have been at one point where you're unsure if there's a specific engineering that's right for you, I definitely took my time here to explore different areas of interest and was actually able to realize that through industry engineering I was able to merge my passions for industrial engine for engineering. Really in data science.

And I've been able to pursue a concentration within my major in data analytics as well, so definitely there's tons of opportunity here for you to find your passions and even merge them together.

So that you can use it out in the future.

At the college, we definitely do more than just study. I know sometimes people think that engineering students. All we do is kind of sit at home, but I promise you that's not all we do. There are hundreds of programs, clubs and groups that you can be apart of here. And honestly, the coolest thing, at least I have found in all this is that if we don't, you can definitely go ahead and create one. All you need is a couple of friends who share the same passions and you're all good to go.

I personally have been very involved with the Society of Hispanic Professor Engineers and the as been my Jack of all trades. It's giving me the opportunity to do philanthropy work both on campus and outside of campus. It's given the opportunity to hold leadership roles, so my first year I was part of their board of directors where I was actually where I served as a liaison between local high schools here in the Atlanta area.

Georgia Tech Center. Georgia Tech chapter to perform outreach programs. So that was really exciting as well. and I also had the opportunity to be on the executive board as treasurer where I had the opportunity to oversee our chapter here and look over, budget and make sure that we were gathering enough funding in order to sustain all of our members and their initiatives. So that was definitely one of the highlights of my involvement there. I've also had the opportunity to mentor and give back through the Society of is my profession engineers.

So I currently serve as a mentor to some undergraduate. Students were also sitting industrial engineer engineering, and they're looking to pursue a similar professional track as I have so far.

But with that said though, outside of this specific globe, there's thousand other. There's a bunch of other ones. Excuse me that are not necessarily professional, so I know at least one of my favorite ones, which I know me and my friends, go back and forth on how my friends feel about it. But I love humans versus zombies, and that is an organization on campus by every semester they set up this giant game. Essentially that goes on right here on campus where.

One person gets designated zombie and they were this bandana around their forehead and then everyone else is a human and they were the bananas around their arms and everyone's going around campus, essentially running away from the zombies themselves and the way that you could protect yourself this through marshmallows or socks and you just get a really really good kick out of that. Sometimes they didn't even like a good relief right in the middle of the day.

Whenever I'm switching between classes to see that going on on campus, so a bunch of opportunities for sure that you can take advantage of.

Without that you can also experience the world here. Um, Georgia Tech actually offers one of.

I'm sorry, excuse me, so just actually has.

A lot of study my programs that the majority of our engineers are taking advantage of, so over half Virgin.

Study abroad at some point through other time here. One of the great things about it is that you can truly sorry abroad at any point. I if I'm not mistaken, you can go as early as your second or third semester all way up into your last semester. I actually had her friend who did one of our study abroad programs and she got back in time right for commencement ceremony. So she was able to get the best of both worlds and still celebrate her graduation. However, what's really significant? An impressive about it.

And I didn't even know this until much later into my career. Is that this is not the average or what's expected for any stem major? Really, in most institutions, actually only about 56% of our student other students are studying abroad, so definitely for me it wasn't armed to have over half of their students going, but nothing. Parties are not all the same. We have over 100 different programs in over 100 different in 15 different cities.

Also, our students love to be able to go and study for a couple of days and hop on a train or helping a plane and being a different city. The next day. A lot of our programs are also taught by GC faculty, so you're still getting the same quality education that you would be getting as if you were here in Atlanta campus.

But instead you get to travel throughout the weekends, which is definitely A plus for some of our students.

And of course at tech we innovate, our maker spaces are unparalleled there actually five different ones across our campus where you can design, build and prototype any invention that you can think of from our state of the art machine. Mall machining walked to the hyperbolic coven are badly or building one of the cool things about our maker. Spaces that is, I like to tell everyone inside.

Not only can you actually do something that can change the world or build a tool that you been thinking of, but you could also use it for your personal use, so I have.

For example, one of my friends that she went into the maker space and she created really cool key chains to go and give to her front so that she could go back home during her Thanksgiving break and give it to all of her friends that she had left behind in high school. So definitely you could use our maker spaces for any idea that you have in mind.

And then here attack, you can also experience your own business if you're anything like me. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be an intrapreneur. I always dream about how you, my own business. And honestly, being my own boss that might has that has changed a little bit, but it's still a long term goal of mine and what I really enjoyed as I had thrown my undergraduate time here about the opportunity to learn just about how I can go about creating this, creating my own opportunity so we have our biggest program called create X.

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I know it can seem a bit daunting, but what I like about it is it segments the start of Journey into several faces an I actually just embarked on the first lady's last semester. Excuse me where I was taking a class and they made it. They make it into a class setting and in that class we learn how to generate different ideas and validate them with people. And just with the overall market to see if my idea would be something that would actually sell and that there actually is a need.

So for me at least I was really helpful because the most daunting idea for me about creating a business was $1,000,000 idea. Can I come up with that? Will help me have a successful business? So definitely learning that there's a methodology that I can use.

An you know learning from other individuals who have helped launch other startups successful startups was definitely something that I made sure to make use up here and that you can do too.

You can also experience problem solving within the classroom here.

Excuse me, an every senior has beginning by capstone, which is the senior design or really the culminating class at the end of your time here where you're putting to use everything you've learned inside and outside the classroom to solve a real world problem. What that looks like for industry engineers is that we work with a company in teams of eight students. On analyzing the current operations, figuring out areas of opportunities that can be improved upon.

And then utilizing our theories that we've learned in the classroom, methodologies to bring about an action plan for the company to implement these recommendations and help improve their overall operations.

Aside from that though.

You also have the opportunity to perform undergraduate research. We are research institution, so that's really big here. There is two ways that you can get involved in research. One way would be working in a typical lab setting where you can go to a professor and reach out to them either face to face or through an email letting them know that you're interested in participating in the research that they're doing.

Um, and for that you could either get credit or actually get paid.

Or you could do.

Our one of our you could do it through virtually integrated projects, which is research in a classroom setting. So what that looks like is I you apply to be a part of one of the teams that's currently here on campus and there's the topics that you're seeing for virtually integrated projects. Or definitely there's a wide variety of them.

So you go ahead, you apply, and then you're going to get a permit to enroll and you'll be working a whole semester with a group of individuals and a specific professor on tackling on any of these projects. So for example, my roommate away I heard about it was actually through my roommate and she was doing a project. Then they were looking at future civilizations on Mars and they were figuring out how could they 3D print materials and what type of material should they be printing in order to grow a civilization on Mars about.

Any moment we have to get into rocket and in such locations, which was definitely very interesting and very different to what your typical research might have sounded like, but it was still really interesting to see that that was going on here on campus and we're still working on some of those problems.

However, though here attack, we also make sure that we are preparing you for life after college. I have personally had the opportunity to do 2 internships in my time here. However, we also have our coop program, so expanding a little bit on both what I had the opportunity and internship itself is a one semester rotation or I want to say a one semester commitment that you're doing with a company where you go work in the summer, spring or fall.

Can you come back and you are good to go. You can see in your life as a student.

I've had the opportunity to do two of these. As I mentioned earlier, my first one was with the Boeing company. I did it my second year, not the typical industrial engineering internship that one might think of.

But definitely one that gave me tons of opportunities and experiences. So I was working with Boeing and some of its suppliers to help reduce their overall costs of their operations and help bring.

Help make some of these planes faster which was fresher. Really exciting. what I like the most about it though it was that they were actually things that I had. It learned yet and some of my classes because this was at the during my second year. So coming back to classes on the fall semester my professor was actually teaching some of the terms that are utilized in my internships. It was really cool to be able to connect both of them. The second internship opportunity I had was slightly different. I had the opportunity to do.

A consulting internship management consulting specifically where I was working based out of Seattle with with Accenture an I had the opportunity to help support one of our accounts by looking at her client that we're working with and seeing what areas of opportunities over within the client and how eccentric would best support them. So a completely different experience but still gave me tons of opportunities to learn and really appreciate that as well. Now as far as our co-ops

And what on watercolor program really is, is that it allows you to go as a student to commit to a company to work with them for three semesters, and what that looks like is that you say you go work for the company in the fall of your second year. You come back to Georgia Tech in the spring and take some classes, and then you go back in the summer to work with a company. And then you do that and rotate accordingly. Open till the end of your.

Commitment period that you sign on with the company. The commitment periods are usually three semesters that you're working for a company. However, they can vary based on who you are coping with. The main benefit really, or what I would like. what I usually like to say about the co-ops and the internships is I determining which ones best or better for you really comes down to what kind of experiences you're looking for. So, for example, an internship. What's great about an internship is that it allows you to experience.

Different things in different industries. So for example, for me I was able to do.

Menu, factoring work, and also a more typical corporate management consulting rule. Whereas with the Co op you might not necessarily be getting these this variety in experiences. However, what you'll be really learning about one company and you'll be truly submerging yourself in what that culture looks like. So one of my friends is currently doing a call up and what he loves about it is I his first rotation. He had a standard project.

But as he started coming back for other rotations, his projects were.

They were a little more complex, so he had the opportunity to dive into what he considers may be harder or like more as close to real life as you will be getting even when he was saying that he had not, he was only halfway through his college career. He was doing real engineers work, so definitely choosing which is right for you just comes down to what kind of experiences are you currently seeking out of an internship or coop.

An I'm guessing if you guys are likely and like all my friends you want to get a good job after college and I thinking about what that might look like and with that most people that graduate from the college start earn a starting salary of $72,000 a year. So that's a pretty good return on investment, which my parents were happy about and I was pretty happy about us well.

So with that we've reached the end for today's presentation. Thank you guys so much for listening in any questions do arise, please feel free to reach out to admissions.officetheemailforthatisadmission@gatech.edu an its admissions without the S.