Engineering Readiness Academy

College of Engineering Author

02/05/2020 Added

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Learn more about how the Engineering Readiness Academy (ERA) is helping students prepare for what it takes to be an engineering student.

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[00:00:03.440]Thinking back to my worries and anxieties
[00:00:06.020]before I got to college.
[00:00:07.540]I was worried about making friends, as everybody is.
[00:00:10.070]You want to expect, what to put in your suitcase,
[00:00:12.390]what classes are gonna be like.
[00:00:13.990]Finding my way around campus.
[00:00:15.440]It helped get me back in the swing of school.
[00:00:17.380]Get back in the academic swing of things,
[00:00:19.340]to focus on some of that thinking,
[00:00:21.930]knocking some rest off of some of their knowledge.
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[00:00:28.723]ER really helped me get ready for
[00:00:30.530]chemistry and physics and all of those harder classes
[00:00:33.073]that I was really nervous about.
[00:00:34.780]If I hadn't done that, I probably would be doing
[00:00:37.460]a lot worse in a lot of my classes.
[00:00:39.610]It allows you to both mentally and physically
[00:00:42.630]prepare for the rigors of being an engineering student.
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[00:00:53.440]Being able to meet professors before school even started.
[00:00:57.720]Helping students to get off to a great start,
[00:01:00.090]helping them to get completed through their course work.
[00:01:02.360]College takes on a whole different
[00:01:04.410]level of responsibility.
[00:01:05.920]A whole different level of initiative on the student's part.
[00:01:10.200]I once was there.
[00:01:11.890]I once was a first semester freshmen engineering student.
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[00:01:20.890]I don't have any regrets about it and I'm still friends
[00:01:23.270]with all the people that I was with that week,
[00:01:25.580]even three years later.
[00:01:26.620]Those connections will always be there
[00:01:27.890]and that started in ERA.
[00:01:29.250]It really helped me going into college
[00:01:31.770]just to have a few familiar faces around campus,
[00:01:33.860]and in all of my classes, and to have someone to
[00:01:37.280]share notes with and to study with for exams.
[00:01:39.970]The counselors that they get to work with,
[00:01:41.540]students who once were a part of ERA themselves
[00:01:44.300]who already have a year of engineering
[00:01:46.030]or two years of engineering under their belt.
[00:01:48.001]They just, they know.
[00:01:48.880]They've been there and they're there for your questions
[00:01:51.160]and if they don't know, you have the staff members
[00:01:53.430]that you meet at ERA.
[00:01:54.947]ERA really helped me feel
[00:01:56.080]connected to the College of Engineering.
[00:01:57.970]By giving me a sense of belonging
[00:02:01.720]and a feeling that there were people there
[00:02:04.070]that cared about me as a person.
[00:02:05.870]And now I feel kind of attached
[00:02:07.340]to some of the buildings.
[00:02:08.173]I mean, I hang out, most of my day in there.
[00:02:10.660]Going to ERA is worth it in the long run
[00:02:12.930]'cause you have people who are there for you
[00:02:14.870]and you have an experience that you're not gonna forget.
[00:02:17.660]You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
[00:02:20.230]It gives them a sense of awareness,
[00:02:22.330]a sense of community.
[00:02:23.990]For incoming students who are questioning
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[00:02:27.265]I would tell them to go forward and do it.
[00:02:28.920]I would tell them to do it.
[00:02:30.387]To do it.
[00:02:31.490]Do it.
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