[upbeat music] - Welcome to the presentation
for prospective students in Mechanical Engineering
at Clemson University. [upbeat music] Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm Todd Schweisinger, I'm the Director for the Undergraduate Program
in Mechanical Engineering. And I'm glad you could stop
by our virtual presentation to hear a little bit more about what Clemson offers
prospective students. And so I wanna tell you a little bit about the presentation. What I'd like to do is at first,
just kind of introduce you to some concept of the careers
in mechanical engineering, in case you're considering
that as a discipline. A little bit about the career
services that Clemson provides and the work experiences
that we provide for students. And also how the Department
prepares students for these careers in
mechanical engineering, such as our classes, the resources we have
available to students, as well as other opportunities
outside the classroom, or just to develop as a professional and as a student to really
help you make the decision in terms of what makes Clemson
the right choice for you, if it is the right choice for you. And we hope that it is. So a little bit about the careers
in mechanical engineering. Mechanical engineering is a
broad engineering discipline where students have gone on to graduate, have graduated, gone on
to careers in aerospace, transportation, power generation, defense, manufacturing, construction, HVAC, research, product development, and even extended into law and medicine and other areas of project
management and leadership. Clemson prepares our students for doing that through our curriculum. But also we have an
outstanding career services through our top rated Center for Career and Professional Development, as well as the Michelin Career Center, which is gonna help our students obtain those careers upon graduation. But they also help those our students get some work experience
while they're here at Clemson. And so the Career Center
has a dedicated person solely to mechanical engineering students who are participating in co-op
and internships programs. So that means that our students are getting a dedicated
person in career services to help them get paid work
experience before they graduate. And that really is an advantage,
a benefit to our students, really getting that customized attention. And the Clemson ME student is in demand nearly all of our Clemson
students seeking a co-op accept some kind of offer. And as an example of
the types of companies that our graduates and
as well as our students are interning, co-oping with and they span the spectrum
from your Fortune 500s to regional companies in different areas of aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and those topics we
discussed a second ago. And so how do we prepare our students to pursue these careers? Well, it starts with a flexible scheduling with multiple sections and
classes offered every semester. So they can really customize
their plan of study to accommodate their co-ops, internships, or other academic pathways
they wanna pursue. And as part of their
schedules and classes, it really begins with the
breadth of core topics, which we'll talk about
in just a little minute. And then also give students an opportunity to go deeper into specific topics and really explore personal interests or their professional aspirations. And so those first couple of years, students will start in general engineering and they will pursue
some general engineering, general education requirements as well, such as English, social science, and then also developing some core math, chemistry, physics, and science classes. In the beginning, the sophomore
year, students will begin to take the mechanical
engineering sequence beginning with the
mechanical engineering lab, as well as some foundation
courses in statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, and fluids. And they'll round up that
sophomore year with some, a little bit more breadth in electrical and computer engineering,
some material science and other technical aspects
getting them prepared to really focus on their core discipline of mechanical engineering
in their junior year. And that's when students begin to really enter their
fundamental ME concepts in thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, machine design, and additional sequence of labs. And that's gonna prepare
them for their senior year where now they're gonna
take all of the knowledge, apply that into practical ways, such as their senior design project, where they're solving,
our students are solving industry-sponsored
projects, real projects. Also completing their final lab and they also have the opportunity to take some technical electives
to specialize and go. We talked about going in
depth, going a little more focusing on a specific track of courses to really pursue some personal interests and career aspirations,
such as in manufacturing with materials, computational engineering, looking at the dynamic systems more, vehicles, aircraft design, energy, and gas turbines, as well as HVAC and even as topics is a
cardiovascular biomechanics would be other classes kind of. So we offer a breadth
of technical electives and opportunities for
students to go deeper into that core classes they
took their junior year. But in addition to those core classes in mechanical engineering, students also have the opportunity to customize their
curriculum in other ways. And what we do is we have
each student meet one-on-one with an academic advisor to
develop that custom experience, to learn more about what
that student's interests are. Those interests could
include studying abroad during the summer or a regular semester and getting course credit for
those towards their degree. Or it could include a research opportunity such as departmental honors or senior year completing one year of undergraduate research
with one faculty member. Or the creative inquiry
sequence could be working with a team of undergraduates solving a problem, passionate that an instructor
is passionate about and a topic that a student
might also be passionate about. The University also offers minors, which are mechanical engineering students are eligible to obtain such as math or business administration,
nuclear engineering, and radiological science as well as international
science in some languages. In mechanical engineering we
have some select few programs to really focus on some themes. One of those teams can be
advanced manufacturing, where the students will have access to some outstanding facilities in Greenville, South Carolina, learning more about advanced manufacturing and partnering with those industries building those networks and relationships. And we also have a program
focused on energy systems our senior year in Charleston, and students can obtain an automotive engineering certificate through the CU-ICAR, also located in
Greenville, South Carolina. And we also offer a BSMS program for students looking to fast track through a graduate degree. They can shave some time off by getting some
strategically taking classes as an undergrad that will also count towards their MS degree. And so some of the resources that we have to help
those students include tutors embedded into the course. So those are our peer
assisted learning students. So those are our PALs who are gonna tutor students specifically in a class in teams of
students in group settings. Students also have access to
the Academic Success Center for tutoring as well as tutoring in the peer and wise office and students have access
to the Writing Center. So there's a number of ways
that we're providing resources to help students be
successful in the program. And in addition to those resources, we provide a Mechanical
Engineering Student Shop to support coursework, research projects, senior design capstones,
or just personal interests. There's makerspaces in the library, in the Watt Family Innovation Center. We also have student mentors in the Jansen Family Mentor Program who are reaching out to
our undergraduate students our first second year, early on, earlier to students to mentor them in career and student success
within their classes as well. And certainly have the
instructors office hours where the instructors are
gonna be doctor level faculty or professionals with decades
of industry experience. Is an opportunity for students to live in the residence
in science and engineering, living and learning community that also offers in-house tutoring in the residence hall, specific
to science and engineering. And a Clemson degree can encompass more than formal coursework. One example would be
finding like-minded students to engage in their studies and profession by participating in a student organization or competition team, such as
the Clemson Rocket Engineering, or some automotive
engineering organizations, student organizations. And then a little bit about
the Clemson experience we're located in between two
hours between Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina at the base of the foothills mountains, right on scenic Lake Hartwell. We have a population of about 20,000 undergraduate students with 5,000 graduate students in a small college town setting. And we like to talk
about the Clemson family and really what that
means is that we welcome all students from different disciplines and backgrounds and everybody's identity is welcomed at Clemson. And we want everyone to, we
really value the diversity of the Clemson population, and we really want
everyone to feel welcome. But it's also just a hospitable culture that we have on campus. And you'll feel that
when you come to campus, what that means, and there's
a lot of opportunities be for campus involvement,
such as clubs sports, or other activities. So we don't want students when they come to Clemson to abandon their personal interests, just to pursue this degree. We want them to strengthen their personal, their passions, and identities and build beyond just the
academic core sequence. And so Clemson has a lot of
opportunities to get involved. And another popular aspect
that Clemson students report about certainly is our athletic program. So a good compliment to a
top tier academic program. We also have a top tier
athletics program as well. And the Princeton Review constantly ranks, consistently ranks. Clemson in the top 10 for their students love these colleges. And the overwhelming majority of our students would
choose to enroll in Clemson and repeat their experience if they could do it all over again. Well thank you for considering
mechanical engineering at Clemson University. The mechanical engineering
discipline offers a breadth of opportunities for our graduates in terms of their career, aspirations, and personal interests. And we help prepare those students with an outstanding Career Center who's placing students in top companies and also helping our students
get the paid work experience while they're students
to better prepare them for their careers. And in order to get those
great work experiences while they're students,
we're preparing them through our classes and the curriculum that has the breadth and the depth, and also the technical expertise they'll need to be successful
in the engineering profession. And it also offers the
flexibility in the schedule so that students can
customize their plan of study to whatever academic pathway
they're interested in, whether that be a co-op, an internship, a study abroad, undergraduate research, or any other experience that
really they want to customize to maximize their potential. And so hopefully we've given
you some things to consider in making your choice as
Clemson mechanical engineering. And if you're looking
for more information, you can find us on the internet. We look forward to seeing
you at Clemson, go tigers. [upbeat music]