Everybody is so today, we're going to be talking about engineering at Loyal University of Maryland. I am a junior. I'm studying mechanical and materials engineering with a minor in math right here. I have doctor part with me.
And I'm the chair of engineering at loyal and my background is materials engineering and mechanical engineering. So Whitney and I are connected in terms of our topical interests.
What we like to do is run through a quick slide deck and let you know what engineering is like at Loyola and we'll take turns doing this actually Whitney knows the inside track because she's a student so I have my faculty perspective, which I can give to you and will take turns looking at this so we're going to look at the degree program here at Loyola what the options are inside will give you a snapshot of our faculty.
And stuff, so you know what who we are in terms of our appearance and what we do in our expertise and then we'll look at all kinds of things like projects internships look at the details of our program and computer electrical engineering and some activities. There also clubs, activities so the ability to study abroad, which is very unique in engineering practice in the United States and look a little bit at our facilities and the equipment that we have.
So one thing to keep in mind is that we are a liberal arts school and and as such. We follow the dictates of engineering and the practices of engineering, but always a line for the benefit of humankind so that's the Jesuit ideal. There's something to that. You need to know and that is the humanities, core requirements in our engineering program are probably the most extensive.
Of any accredited program in the United States. So we told students who think they might want to come here we uh. We hope you do come here and benefit from the humanities from the philosophy from the theology from the English the writing courses. All those things really differentiate us as an engineering program.
US or program is abet accredited. We have an audit visit every 6 years, the last one was in 2018, so quite recently.
Then we have a lot of great strength within our program. UM one of them being the fact that our classes are all really small so they're all taught by really well experienced faculty such as Doctor Pond. Here we have a lot of other great engineering professors that will go into later. You're also able to study abroad, as we spoke about which is really rare engineering students do have to take a lot of credit. A lot of courses with Humanities on Top of that. But even a lot of my friends now are sending abroad as engineering majors.
We also have a program called the Harbor Research Fellows Program, I was a harbor fellow last summer. It's an opportunity to stay on campus and do engineering research during your time here and that's really a strength program and you get paid? Yes.
Um overall were ranked 57th nationally out of 250 programs, which is really, really great, especially of a school of our size. We have 162 engineering students. Overall for years and the fact that I really love this fact that 22% of our students are women, which is higher than the national average across the US and then actually we also have a Society of women. Engineers club that I'm the president up just bringing women in engineering together at Will and.
Brings all together under a common cause. We have 7 full time faculty members and six part time faculty affiliate with a lot. They've come from engineering jobs. They have a lot of industrial and research experience so they're all really knowledgeable. I've been taught by both affiliate an full-time engineering faculty and I found that they've been at the same level of knowledge and expertise and teaching style and overall general knowledge.
So Uhm Oliver courses are taught by faculty members as I've been saying we're going to go into each specific faculty member later on, and all of your class sizes are really small, which is really, really unique. So you're never going to have like a lecture Hall of 200 people. All of your classes are going to be around 25 to 30 people and as you get more and more into the discipline. They tend to get smaller and smaller.
I think that one of my classes right now isn't our structures of solid class about 20 people I would say yeah, so.
They do get smaller and then all of our so all these classes are also integrated with liberal arts classes, so for example, my Tuesday. I might have heat and mass transfer and then I go to my upper level philosophy. After that all of our lab facilities and we're going to go into what particularly particularly those are later. But they're all up-to-date all really recent as well, and we have a lot of we have excellent job placement in grad. School placement so once you leave oil you're getting a job or you're going to grad school.
To eventually get another degree?
So one thing in our program. It's important to note is that there are 4 disciplines within engineering that we teach and we do computer and electrical and we do mechanical and materials are program is accredited as Whitney pointed out before and each one of these disciplines requires 4 Upper Level 400 level courses and the 400 level courses themselves require prerequisites, which is one of the things that the accreditation agency and system.
There's there's something that's possible here. That's that's really kind of unique and nice and that is the school allows us to double count a course within the program and it turns out if you take for instance, mechanical engineering. There's a 400 level course. That's required which is manufacturing materials and processes and when we looked at that course we realized that we could have put it on the material side. There's another course on the material side. It's called mechanical properties of materials.
Which is a science course and we realized we could have put that on the mechanical side so if you take one of those, 2 courses. You can count it on the other side of the Ledger and that leaves you with only 3 courses to complete to do a double to do a double concentration and right now. 25% of all of our students in junior and senior year Mechanicles and materials are doing a double there actually augmenting their education and filling it out.
By by doing that the uh the school has a requirement that you have 3 electives and we have an additional requirement that you have to take one engineering elective so between those depending on what you're doing with your courses. It's relatively easy to do a double concentration and as Whitney said she's actually doing that.
Yep, it's really manageable.
Now there are minors that you can get one of the easiest ones to get from Engineering is a math minor typically takes 1 or 2 courses to get a minor in math past? What's required for engineering. So it's actually relatively easy. Also, there's a brand new minor called innovation and entrepreneurship and that particular minor is one that requires a capstone class and it turns out that of course, engineering has a requirement for capstone class.
And that counts toward yeah, I and E minor innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor. There's another course that we have which can be taken as an elective that's called a technical innovation and entrepreneurship to 400 level course and that also counts towards a minor so if you decide to go. Tord this minor. It takes 2 extra courses. Both of them business courses that you can do if your selective in your course choices.
In terms of your core requirements, you can take a micro and Macro Economics and with the math counting toward business like statistics counts toward business. Our statistics counts toward business minor. It's fairly easy to get a business minor and some of our students do that and some of our students do a computer science minor as well so that's within reach, especially from computer engineering. The school has an emerging leaders Masters MBA type of.
Program that can be got in the 5th year and uh that's a program. Also, if you line up with the business minor. You can literally get your MBA in a fifth year in here, so that's that's a nice program as well.
The something else that is that just started in 2018, is is ID minor and as I said 3 of the 6 required courses for the minor you automatically get in engineering practice, so it's pretty easy to do and then some.
Anything else that his new just started last year if your if you have an interest in physics. You can do a dual degree, which is issued the 5th year, you're here, so we've worked up a alignment that you can go 5 years and in your 5th year, you'll graduate with a BA.
I see an engineering and a BS in physics simultaneously. So so that's that's pretty nice. And we have students in that already. Students have joined that now when he's going to tell you the truth about our program.
Yes, so how great it is so uh this is the faculty uhm. They are very close to very near and dear to us. We spend so much time and Engineering Lounge, where we all hang out do our homework. They stop by to say hi so 1st. We have doctor. Bailey can is basically like Bob Ross is what we like to call has some of the best handwriting. He's really, really great with Doctor Elvin. He is very, very meticulous. He was my lab professor. I love him, he loves his dog more than anything else.
We have doctor Fenner Uhm, she was my lab professor for linear circuit analysis as well as she's the mentor for Society of women engineers so we work really closely on a lot of subjects super hard working when my favorite people got her dog, I have not met.
Thank you. I'll have to ask her a call you tomorrow. Uh we have Doctor Ho. He was my linear circuit. Now stress so he is just super passionate about it, you can really tell when he teaches that he works really hard, with students to make sure that they understand everything.
Um Doctor Kilson Um, another great professor I've had her she was my Massena Professor so miss you. As a program where you're placed in like living learning community or first year and mine was engineering based so as with Doctor Keel said. I also did research with her last summer, so we spent a lot of time together and she's really great. We have doctor clan up over here, so he runs our lab, he's in charge of helping out with the Baja team will talk about what Baja is specifically a little bit later on, but he worked really closely with them use my lap faster as well.
And we have doctor cone. I have doctor cone right now from my systems analysis class. He is a captain. It looks like which he doesn't really talk about that in class. It's not really well, he's he's actually a license jet engine pilot. He has a plane and he's also a licensed instructor so if you want to learn to fly a jet plane, he's or go to guy.
Interesting yeah, I'm for systems engineering and he gives very such great lectures. And here we have doctor from the best of the best. He is I've had you for 2 semesters. Now 2 different materials classes and.
And is just basically the greatest that's why they made the Dean but yeah, he's a really great professor really cares about his students helps with like placing your classes. He's usually one if you can't make a class 'cause you have like a sports team or it's usually for sports that sometimes you're not your classes. Just don't line up so he'll actually make sure that you get that classes will teach it himself.
Uh yeah, yeah, so we have an industrial Advisory Board and their chartered and their charter. Basically says that the primary thing. They have to do is review. The capstone design projects. They do that at the end of each semester. They give us input on our product, which is our students and they tell us if they've learned enough and if our courses need to be changed our direction of our program needs to be changed and they provide internships, they sometimes the.
Presentations are literally job interviews. We've had students give presentation to the board and be accosted afterwards and offered a job on the spot, so, so they're very much an active part of our system.
The companies that are represented or these companies right here. We have 37 members on the board. We typically will have on our design presentations will have about 18 to 22 of the board will actually show up routinely they show up all the time so they're very, very, very active.
So these are some examples of some of our senior design projects. One of them recently. In past years was a system to help disabled patients drink little bit better, so it actually dispense the required amount of liquid in disabled patients mouse, but some other products in the back past have been a snow shovel that you don't have to bend over to use more right over here. We have a baby sensor Fusion Kersey. I did you read there for that sure of course, yeah, so that particular one was?
Was a project that if a baby was in the seat sensor could tell that and if the driver left the car and was gone for 30 seconds, then their Phone would ring to tell them that there was a baby in the seat and then they would get 2 more minutes and if they didn't return to the car and turn the car engine on then they get a second notice. And if they still didn't come back, then, the police would be called so it was basically 2.
Avoid having kids locked up in a hot car.
Wow, that's really interesting. I currently thinking right now about ideas for next year. Since that is a full year project started complaining think about team members think about possible ideas. I'm really looking forward to it, so uh a timer. Students engineering students to do internships over the summer. We've had a bunch of these Allen. There's a lot of really big companies in the area. There's also a lot of big government agencies in the area. So a lot of our students to work and then with the premise in the area and it says in the area.
Great things in the area as well. The red means of recent summer internships. I personally I'm going to be working, at Whiting Turner next summer and I actually got that job through a career fair at will what he Turner was there, so I interviewed them with their own campus and they offered me a position they work really closely with local and not only for Industrial Advisory Board, but also getting US jobs.
Um here's some other employers that um pastures have gone on to work for right here. We have Boeing as well as General Electric sorry and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
Now, one one thing that is sort of interesting that about 5 to 10% of our graduating seniors will go straight to Graduate School and they will go to a PhD program think about a PhD program is you get paid to go. You don't pay anything and you get a salary to go if you go to a Masters program. You have to pay that's what the universities have figured out they can make money on the Masters. Almost all of our graduates will go.
To Graduate School, but they'll go to a company that will pay for them to go for Masters degree. So so they're very savvy in that regard, the ones who do apply to give you an example.
2 years ago, uh this fellow on your left applied to 15. PhD programs in the United States. He was accepted to 14 conditionally accepted to the 15th and he decided to go to University of Notre Dame in arrow in aeronautical engineering. The compatriot in the middle decided to go from US to nuclear engineering completely different field. He applied to 8 nuclear engineering programs and was accepted to 7.
And then last year, a lady right here went to buy medical engineering and she applied to 9 programs and was accepted to 7 and now is that Duke having a good time, so the students that do want to go on for PhD for research job or a teaching job, they place really, really well.
So in terms of activities outside of engineering there is a bunch of summer opportunities to travel as well as just studying abroad in general so right now junior year is the time that juniors typically travel I personally am not study abroad but I have a bunch of friends in the engineering program that are off the Top of my head I can think of at least 6 people in my year that are abroad this semester so I have friends in New Zealand and other ones in Cork Ireland and other ones actually in Chile which is really cool so she speaking.
Fluid Spanish down there, which is great, but you can really go anywhere. You like with the major of the cute side. The large amount of core classes that you have to take allows for like a lot of flexibility So what you usually end up doing is saving all of those cores is what we call it and then just taking them abroad. So there's a lot of opportunity to do that. But there's also opportunities if you don't want to leave you alone for the whole semester. You can do a winter program. We have winter programs to Vietnam as well as some programs to Prague or 2, I believe.
Rome as well in Madrid so those are options as well. There's also opportunities to have internships during summer and then research so I'll talk a little bit about what research at loyal is like so I did the whole Hubbard Fellowship so with that is. I would start accusing I was like this is what the topic. I want to work on what can you do and so we kind of like build our whole research project from scratch. I got paid for it, I got to live.
Uh I didn't live on campus, but I live close by so I just came into work every day, but there is also.
Abigail Messaris
05:20:37 PM
We will have plenty of time for questions toward the end of the program!
Teachers have had like ongoing research projects that you can hop on an or just like let them know what you're interested in passion about and they can figure something out with you. Also, if you're interested. You can take classes at local other universities in the area. We have a program called Baltimore student exchange program so last semester. I had a student from Notre Dame University, which is really close to us actually in my blue mechanics class, which is really interesting. We also the engineering program is really tight knit were all in a lot of clubs together, we all.
Hang out with each other as well, and the for example, similar clubs that were in that we have. We have engineering club. They just are away for engineers of different years to meet each other to hang out. We also have cited women. Engineers we work. We're hoping to work with like local schools. Judging Robotics competitions this spring. We help out with a look organization that helps people with disabilities. We do like a lot of stuff with that. So were also involved in other activities as well. There's something to say about study abroad to know it's unusual for engineers.
To study abroad from any program, one thing that is challenging to us is that the materials upper level materials upper level computer upper level. Electrical engineering classes are taught every other year, so if you study abroad in your junior year when you come back, you will have missed that class if it's not offered abroad. Then then you can't make it up So what we've elected to do as a faculty is we will teach you that class if that's the reason you missed it, even if you're the only student.
Gabriel
05:22:15 PM
what does a first year course list look like? What are the classes that freshmen take for this major?
In the class an we've done that in the past 15 years. About 22 times where we've had one or 2 students in a class that we've made up to class and we got kudos for that from the Accreditors. When we did our last accreditations. It's unusual. Now there's a question that came across maybe we should answer these as they occur and the question is what's first your course list look like and so, so the first year.
That there are some very important things that you need to do in the hierarchy of classes and that is, you have to take Calc based physics and Calc one and 2, so that's the most critical thing because in your sophomore year when you start out with linear circuits and statics classes like that. The Prereqs are basically your physics and we can't deviate from the rules. We have to maintain the hierarchy. Of course, is so In addition to that you take A?
Ricky
05:22:52 PM
For Whitney- What is your favorite thing about engineering at Loyola?
Programming course in your first year and then you have core courses writing history. Things that are that are typically required Anna Massena class. Maybe Whitney will dress Messina.
Seen in general is a living learning program so you're going to be living in the same dorm. Sorry residence Hall as the people that you go to class with so it's really just a way for you to meet people mine was engineering. So it was basically an intro to engineering. You would talk about all the different types. What Engineering is like we talked a lot about failure analysis. So it's like bridges and stuff, and that was really, really interesting and then it also I loved it because it introduced me to all the other people in engineering program and since we tend to take a lot of the same classes together 'cause.
It is a a smaller size school that we all got really close in that first year and we carried those friendships through all 4 years. So I really love that number one like introduce me to engineering and #2 introduced me to all the other engineering kids.
So yeah, these are just some of the other engineering clubs that we have on Campus Society of Engineers. We have the IEEE student chapter. We have the Robotics Club. They also have a competitive team that travels locally and keeps as well as we have a Baja team doctor constant talk a little bit more about Baja and then the makers clubs. The makers club is you show up on a Friday. You want to 3D print something you want doctor enough to show you? How to use a lathe or something like that in order to make something you can do that.
Bryn
05:24:32 PM
Do you currently have any students pursuing or enrolled in the SMART scholarship program with the DOD?
Um so you get more like hands on activities and stuff like that. We have a question or any students pursuing or enrolled in the Smart Scholarship program with DOD and I don't know the answer to that. But I do know that we get many scholarship offers and we passed us on to students and students do try to get extra money. All the time they're always looking for and sometimes they're here and will be in their 2nd or 3rd year and they'll see an opportunity.
Jump on it actually yeah, I got one last year. Doctor Bailey sent went out about HVAC system sounds like. Oh, I like. The track systems and I got a good scholarship out of it. So it was great and I was the software too.
So this next question says the side you're bored participants. How many outside company engineers come and talk about the engineering workforce actually give you don't want talk about this really fast, so society. Women engineers is actually hosting a speed mentoring event next week. During science week. So we're having a lot of women in engineering in Baltimore, coming to us and talking to us. We're doing, it in that kind of speed dating format, so they're going to come and give one advice about what it's like as an engineer in the real world.
As I say, and just give 101 tips to the students so they do come we have seminars as well so for instance annually. Northrop Gruman comes in and talks about their their jobs in Northrop Gruman, especially computer engineering and electrical engineering, we've had.
Navy nukes come in United States Navy nuclear engineering program to try to let our students know how that works. We've had. Roundtable seminars with students have graduated and are working in industry come back and sit down and tell us their experience in applications and their experience at work. So we're kind of kind of active in terms of outreach like that.
Jack
05:26:20 PM
Besides your board participants, how many outside company engineers come and talk about the engineering work force.
Yeah, I don't I don't think that SP is active on campus. They do have a lot of activities in Baltimore and so there's there's a downtown annual event there, I've spoken at that the number of times.
Uhm but we don't we don't have an SPEA chapter here at all.
Spencer
05:26:54 PM
Is NSBE Active on campus?
And then the next question is what is the difference between materials engineering and mechanical engineering so uh materials engineering is more like? How like the very atoms of materials respond to each other and how that effects. Their response to forces and stuff like that, and then mechanical engineering is more of like a broader sense in a way in like how.
Forces how the key and different environmental conditions can affect things would think yeah. So so let's say a couple of other things about that and let me tell you something. It's just sort of anecdotal and funny. But my expertise. One of my expertise is is in failure analysis of engineering system so I literally have done litigation work forensic work and failure analysis. I've done over 1500 cases in my.
Career one of my jokes is that maybe half of the cases I've seen our failures that are due to Mechanical Engineers, not understanding materials out here, so the Mechanical Engineers typically look at things like elastic responses to materials In other words, the way material should work with design limits. They look at flow fluid flow and things like that, so they look at how material works under under forces.
But in a behaved matter the materials engineers look at the extremes as well. So they look at fracture fatigue. Corrosion environmental types of damage, so they really are complementary to each other and that's one thing that we really say is really an augmentation of your education. If you're a mechanical engineer get some materials engineering background, you'll be a black belt in everything.
BJ
05:28:52 PM
What is the difference between material engineering and mechanical engineering?
The good good question is how much real work experience do they have outside the classroom and so let's look at a couple things one? Is let's take somebody like Doctor Elvin. He worked at Naval Research Labs for many years before he came here and he happens to be an expert in explosives. So if ever. You have a question about explosives. He's absolutely the go to guy.
He is a uh expert in hardness testing. He's done a lot of forensic work on ancient road iron that was a material of choice back in the 1700s and 18 early 1800s. If you take somebody like doctor, Bailey Doctor Bailey worked for a number of years at Savannah River nuclear plant as a design engineer down there so he worked in real systems before he got the bug to teach and he taught at University of Tennessee.
For a number of years before he came to us if you take somebody like me, I'm really, really old and uh and I actually worked 13 years in nuclear power and fossil power generation. So I ran a laboratory for 4.
Uh power industry basically and I also worked in a casting shop before that, and I worked in Army research labs, so I did 5 years that army research labs, so, so I have a mixed background. But a lot of lot of outside work. Professor Cone Captain Cone. He worked for Raytheon for about 8 years. He worked in their missile program for about 8 years. Doctor Keilson worked on the Hubble One, the Hubble was first designed so she worked on the systems for for the Hubble.
So so you look at our youth in our faculty and we have a pretty large base of industrial experience and myself. I don't know what Whitney thinks and she probably isn't going to tell you right now, but I but, I would like to bring relevance of things that I teach in the classroom. I like to bring the relevance of things that have gone wrong in practice.
So make to make things real.
Jack
05:31:07 PM
With your faculty members how much real work experience do they have outside the classroom
Just so the next question is, is the equipment and programs used in the lab similar to what a graduate would see in the workforce, having graduated person typically that's true. So it's a good question give you some examples. The last year, we bought for electrical engineering, we bought a platform called The Elvis 3.
And The Elvis tree is a national instruments platform and it is the platform that is used for designed by Boeing Northrop Gruman Raytheon. All of these aerospace companies. It's their design platform, we use it for.
Oh field programmable gate array type of work we use it for circuitry work. It has 7 different measurement capabilities in it, you can do simulation work with the computer that's in it, so you can build a circuit and initialize it without really putting current through anything and blow it up in computer space and figure out what went wrong. So it's really a cutting edge tool. The Northrop Gruman people that come to see S every year, basically have told us that if we qualify a student.
On that equipment that they will hire that student and they don't care. How tall are good looking they are. You know they? Will they will definitely hire them? So so that's certainly cutting edge. Our look at our mechanical equipment. The we have state of the art hardness tester in materials. We for load frames on mechanical equipment. All that stuff is is modern computer driven computer data acquisition. We have a brand new couple year old shimadzu load frame. That's just to die for in terms of ease of use. Even I can use it.
I hardly ever mess it up so, so you know, we typically have really good really good equipment. The school has an endowment that allows us as much as $85,000 a year to augment our laboratory equipment for students and it's use it or lose, it every year. They come to us and say, would you what would you like to get and we give him our hierarchy of demands and we usually get everything that we want?
Ricky
05:33:24 PM
Is the equipment/programs used in the labs similar to what a graduate would see in the workforce?
I'm gonna ask what is the average credits an engineer takes each semester so I take about 15 to 20 every semester last semester. I continued on with my research added like 2 more credits for I think it total think it was 20. Yeah, about 1518 to 20 each semester. Just 'cause we usually take labs and this can be on Top of your average course out of about 15 credits. The school has recently dropped 3 crowds out of the core requirement and.
Uh it's been true that our students take about 143 total on average. To graduate keep in mind that many of our students do minors so they take extra courses to to do a minor.
So it's a It's a heavy load. It's really heavy credit load. But one thing in our program. That's true is that we don't have any weed out course, so there's no course where we arbitrarily not students out and try to be really excessively. Horling students and our approach. It basically is if you want to be an engineer and you want to work were there to help you most all of our faculty in engineering has open door policy for any student help we are.
We're required to keep office hours, but most of us just keep open door hours. You know if you walked by and you want to talk and we're in there were not in a meeting then you just walk in and talk.
Jack
05:34:55 PM
What is the average credits an engineer takes each semester?
Uh prior knowledge that's a good question. It's really it's really good. If you take an AP and you have. AP credit in anything to simply open up your flexibility in terms of course, is that you take the it's really good if you have a calc background at least pre calc. If you've taken calculus in high school, then that's that's really helpful lot of schools now a lot of high schools have.
Other things like robotics type of activities, either clubs or even in class so those things are leg up there really very helpful.
I will say that I did um.
Samantha
05:35:41 PM
How much prior knowledge do students entering an engineering major typically have?
I'd never taken physics before I came to Loyola and it was like a shock taking it here in a college level course, but it was definitely doable. So even if you've never taken visits before I had taken calculus, though beforehand, but it was doable. If you've never taken physics.
So it says why did you choose I think it's talking to you?
Basically, all over another school, so I was actually looking at like larger engineering schools and then just looking at like University of Washington's looking at University of Maryland. These like really big schools really big engineering programs and they came and visited loyal.
I think I need a school that is smaller so I can get one on one attention. If I have any problems with homework or something like that. I wanted like a tight knit organization that would always be there. Always have my back so that's why I chose I also want to say at Loyola if you come in engineering. You can truly change your mind. So when you get to little you get into all the schools, so say tomorrow. I want to switch to business. I totally could have done that that freedom and flexibility means also really, really important.
I hope she doesn't switch to business.
We like our Business School. It's very good, but what she said, is absolutely true, it's it's hard to get into engineering. If you don't start with the physics and Calc. But it's easy to get trivial to get out of engineering, so every once awhile when I wanted to students that will basically see something else that they like and they don't miss a beat. You know they don't lose anything.
Do scholarships follow you, when you study abroad. You have scholarships are maintained and typically the schools abroad are. I think less expensive than ours. But you still have some things that cost like travel and things like that that you have to look at so yeah, yeah, you end up paying your tuition transfer So what you think here is what should be paying abroad. But you'll be in court or you'll be in Bangkok, Thailand or something like that.
Oh someone asked what my favorite thing about.
So someone else actually continue with the program then.
She did the questions that now I think so.
Cody
05:38:21 PM
What are some of the Engineering study abroad locales?
Running short on time and uh and I don't think we need to do too much more. We were highlighting a Baja team, which is new that the students put together and we also have really good robotics team our equipment. We have professional grade laser cutter fully complemented machine shop in our program. We have a lot of new equipment in terms of load frames impact testers all kinds of things like that all of the electronic equipment that is.
Is brand new like the Elvis 3? Which is pictured down down in here is kind of important and you know last slide. Just says it basically rounds it out says look you know, we're a Jesuit liberal arts school and liberal arts is a really integral part of our accredited engineering program so. So now let's see if we can get through as many questions as we possibly can and by the way you know if we for some reason we don't wrap. This up with you. You can get in touch with us. Anytime you go online and get the contact information.
You can call me, I'd be glad to talk to you if you want to visit we'd love to see you. You know, we'll spend time and and I'll show you around personally and let you see what the program looks like.
Um so looks like it wait. I missed 1 question my favorite part about Loyola Engineering. So I think part about little engineering exactly faculty. The fact that they say. I'm telling you they leave their doors open all the time, like I'll just be walking by with the tour and then the lounge or we will be open will all hang out with each other and the office hours. I went to Doctor Bailey before my CAD design class students like. Hey, like I know we review for this test. But like can you go over this one problem with being so I would say they are my?
Cody
05:40:31 PM
Do you have a Co-Op program?
So uhm study abroad locales is a question that's been asked and it's that's an interesting question in this regard for some reason our engineers tend to gravitate to certain places they actually go everywhere. We've had students in in Czech Republic. In Rome, Italy and Spain in England all over the place. But for some reason our students, like Australia, New Zealand, Thailand.
And England, we've had as many as 5 students at a time in Thailand. We've had as many as 5 at a time in Australia. I think 4 at a time in New Zealand. So so there seems to be topical things that our students, like but you know they apply they go wherever they want to, they go all over the world.
Justin
05:41:06 PM
Can you talk a little bit more about how engineering and entrepreneurship work in tandem at Loyola?
There's a ton of different locations. You can go to question is, do you have a coop program. We don't we? Don't have a coop program? However, we do promote internships and if a student has enough room in their schedule, especially their senior year. We've had students that will in turn during the semesters. They actually have a part time job.
But the intern ships, we, we tell the freshman when they come in. That's one thing that should be a part of their education is to get an engineering internship. We do not promote those if they're not paid.
Every once in awhile a company will come and say can we have somebody for free and will say you're on your own. We're not gonna advertise it. But if if they're willing to pay then we think that's important because they expect something from the students then students expect to do something and it becomes a much more enriched endeavour if we do it that way.
And then someone also asked uh if we can talk a little bit more about how engineering entrepreneurship work in tandem at Loyola. So I do have a friend in my here? Who is a University innovation fellow So what that means is she's also a minor and innovation entrepreneurship, so she's really involved with them. She competed in. We have this like business picture idea competition. She pitched a thing, she does with robotics where she brings robots to local schools, so she actually pitched that idea and got like 2nd place. I think so.
Really proud of her, she traveled to Stanford with this University innovation, Fellows as well as being engineering majors, so I would see the work really, really closely. We have a lot of engineering majors, who are able to minor in. It just allowing because it's the core allows for that flexibility and stuff like that. But something else to add in terms of our capstone or engineering capstone project requires that you have a societally relevant problem to solve.
And basically you go through endeavor of figuring out different ways to solve it optimizing the way you're going to solve it planning that actually you get a budget you build and test in second semester and do your lessons learned and do market work as well. So one of the requirements is you have to look at the marketplace and see if your solution to the problem is potentially viable. We've had students like the drinking Cup group from 3 years ago, they've decided to commercialize that drinking Cup, so right now.
There, in a process they work with the school and they banded together and they're going to try to make a prototype that can be manufactured and then interest somebody into marketing that.
I would say I also use innovation a little bit during my research last summer because mean doctor kill some kind of like built the idea from scratch. So we kind of worked on it together, we developed like the testing procedures. So I would say innovation and entrepreneurship to go hand in hand and they are very complementary so getting that engineering major with Innovation Entrepreneurship minor just shows that you're a creative thinker and you know how to?
Also act in the business world as well.
Douglas
05:44:51 PM
Will we be able to see the labs/equipment during accepted student open house?
And and something else again, you know if you think of questions that you have you see the last slide. You can go into the web web page for Loyola, an simply look through academics and find engineering. You can see all of our contact information and you can get in touch with us. Anytime it would be very pleased to talk to you.
Yeah, so the question is can you can you tour and see the labs and equipment it's physically possible to do that? We stop doing tours in the open houses because we would typically have about 120 people to go through the labs. We would split them up. In 3 groups and so we would have maybe 3030 people in a group and you can't. You can't do a very good job of touring that way.
If you come to open house an take aside professor who's running that and their students there as well, or even during open table session in the afternoon. Somebody can walk you over and take you through the labs, but especially if you come on your own anytime if you make an arrangement to visit we will always spend an hour with you and show you everything and talk to you in great detail so we're always willing to do that.
If you see me as well. Uhm I if I'm not like running around like trying to make sure that everybody's in the right place. I can also take you over and show you the labs and stuff like that.
The tour guide so she knows into the territory of the entire universities, she knows everything.
Did you mark it backwards?
Also, the number of 3D printers.
Abigail Messaris
05:46:25 PM
You can learn more about our visit opportunities at loyola.edu/visit
I think we have Seven 3D printers right now.
We have a a new course that is a uh it's a combined course for intro CAD.
Justin
05:46:47 PM
How manageable is striving for a dual engineering and physics degree?
And a 3D printing as well as Fine Arts and you get double credit when you take that so you get a credit for an engineering elective and also a good precursor course to mechanical engineering required course upper level. CAD course and at the same time you get a Fine Arts requirement out of the way so that's kind of nice thing. We have not just started this year. We have a number of students in that and they've enjoyed it very much. I don't. I don't know the details except I know the students are engineering students doing art.
Work have really appreciated that taste they've enjoyed it very much.
Doctor Bailey taught it and she said. It was like one of her favorite classes. So it's really it was really fun. So you're visiting opportunities. You're visiting opportunities are two ways. The best way is to get in touch with admissions and say that you want to visit you want a private visit and they will get in touch with us and set up a really easy day. There's another way. That's not as friendly to us but which we accommodate and that is, you park your car and walk in.
And say we're here to visit and will do everything in our power to make sure you have a good visit.
There will always be tour guides that we stop by.
Someone said how manageable is extracting for a dual engineering physics degree, yeah, so that that's that's all new. It's tailored so that.
It's actually less of a per course load per semester than 4 straight engineering and 4 years, having that extra year makes a difference. Part of that reason is number of our engineering courses can be counted towards a physics degree.
And there's something else about it. That's interesting and that is if if somebody is primarily interested in physics, but would like to augment their education with it with engineering, they can take 3 years of the dual degree.
And elect in their 4th year, only to get a physics degree and they can bail out of the program so there is an escape clause basically but you have to know in your 3rd year at the end of your 3rd year to to do that. If you go in your 4th year, then you get trapped in a bunch of upper level engineering courses that are really, for engineering, only so it looks like in the way we've planned it. It looks like this is easily doable and a very rich and rewarding degree.
But right now, we have students that are in it, and in their first year so you know, we're we're working our way through it's exciting we think.
Well, we encourage you to look closer.
Gabriel
05:50:12 PM
thank you very informative
Call talk get in touch with us come visit.
Rachele
05:50:13 PM
Thank you:)
And we wish you the greatest greatest luck in terms of your search. We know it's an exciting time as you look for school so we wish you the best.
Is it? Thank you guys so much for joining in on this live stream? Yeah thanks for your time?
Abigail Messaris
05:52:49 PM
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