“We think about all of the science and engineering that goes into harvesting, storing, transporting, mass producing, creating innovative food projects.  I wanted to have a section that was very approachable to anyone no matter what major you wanted to go into.” 

– Laura Hirshfield, Faculty, Section 300

“I’m trying to instill in the students this sense of first giving them a global overview of what the technology problems are, then…ok, what can we do with polymers and how can we make something out of it, and then challenge them and say, now do something with this.” 

– Johannes Schwank, Faculty, Section 310

“I had known what a drone was for so long in my life, but I never actually physically interacted with a drone or flown one or anything of that sort. One of the coolest things about this class is you get to fly it…you get to fix it when it crashes. It’s all so cool.”         

– Student, Section 400

“If you like biology but you want to be an engineer, this is the class for you. We search the literature, we find these principles, these mechanisms in biology, extract them, and apply them to engineering.” 

– Talia Moore, Faculty, Section 580

My favorite parts were the actual building and testing.  We did the programming, the designing, the CAD, simulations for the airflow.  It was really important to work as a team.”  

– Student, Section 700

“You may never have worked with these materials before, or you’ve never had to use a power tool. And so our hope is, wherever you are, you’re able to take next steps and get comfortable so that you can take those skills into your later classes and into design as you move forward.” 

– Philip Derbesy, Faculty, Section 750

“We are the people side of engineering and that’s what really makes it fun.  We allow the students to work on projects that affect them on a daily basis.” 

– Debra Levantrosser, Faculty, Section 810

“The mindset I’m hoping students will take away from this is the idea that you can take some fairly simple gadgets, a fairly simple sort of processor…and make it more intelligent, make it function in the world. The idea is to make everyone’s life a little bit better in the world.”  

– Derrick Yeo, Faculty, Section 850

“Students get introduced to a lot of concepts that they’re not going to see anywhere else in terms of nuclear safety, nuclear radiation…we do put them through the same disciplines that they would if there had been a risk.” 

– John Getsoian, Laboratory Services Supervisor, Section 900

“What we try to stress in this particular section is, how to take a very large question or problem, break it down into components, and then try to analyze each of those components.” 

– Aaron Ridley, Faculty, Section 980