Engineering 101: the Friday talks
Course structure
- Engineering 101 meets twice a week:
- once for the ongoing team lab project;
- once for the Friday guest talk.
- Lab projects are run entirely separately from Friday talks. Different
sections meet at different times of the week, with different instructors.
Information on the labs is not on this web page.
- Friday talks:
- Hosted by Sam Fenster.
- 1:00–1:50 on video using Zoom.
- Grades for this portion of the class (not the lab) are based on your
attendance.
- Questions are encouraged at the end of each talk.
A Zoom link was emailed to students at the beginning of the semester.
To make sure you can connect
properly, you’ll be able to join as early as 12:30.
The talks
- Aug. 29th:
Sam
Fenster,
on computer science &
computer engineering.
Slides [PDF].
Video [Zoom].
- Sep. 5th: Prof. Alison
Conway on
civil engineering.
Video [Zoom].
- Sep. 12th:
Katie
Nailler from CCNY’s
Career & Professional Development Institute.
Video [Zoom].
- Sep. 19th:
Chris Bobko,
director of the Grove School’s
Zahn Innovation Center, on
students developing ideas & products there.
Video [Zoom].
- Oct. 3rd:
Inigo
Sanz-Pena
on mechanical
engineering—and wearable robots!
Video [Zoom].
- Oct. 10th:
Prof. Ray
Tu,
on chemical engineering.
Video [Zoom].
- Oct. 17th: Sam
Fenster, on engineering ethics.
Video [Zoom].
- Oct. 31st: Gregg Lewandowski, software engineer at
Google.
Video [Zoom].
- Nov. 7th:
Prof.
Reza Khanbilvardi
,
Dr.
Liubov Kreminska, associate director of the
Earth Science
Systems & Environmental Engineering program.
Video [Zoom].
- Nov. 14th: Students
who have done interesting things in CCNY engineering clubs
(Engineers Without Borders, Association for Computing Machinery,
Robotics).
Video [Zoom].
- Nov 21st: Dr. Pamela Baxter Clenance, from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Video [Zoom].
- Nov. 28th: Thanksgiving vacation.
- Dec. 5th: Alex Babich, founder of
Nuravine,
graduate of CCNY computer
engineering, and
Zahn Center participant.
Video [Zoom].
- Dec. 12th:
Prof.
Panos
Moutis
explains electrical
engineering.
Videos shown:
About EE (Youtube, 10m). The
IEEE professional society (Youtube, 1m). There was no time to show:
IEEE engineering standards (Youtube, 2m).
Video of class [Zoom].
Check back here weekly for:
- additional material on past talks.
- next week’s talk;
- changes and cancellations.