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[00:00:00.880]Welcome to the College of Engineering. My name is Nicole Binderup. I use she/her pronouns and I'm
[00:00:06.720]the academic navigator for the college. In this video, I'm going to introduce you to a few
[00:00:11.760]important resources and talk about student life in engineering. Before NSE, which stands for New
[00:00:19.680]Student Enrollment, you were sent an email with some resources and information about the College
[00:00:24.880]of Engineering, including this link. This link will send you to our new student and family information
[00:00:31.920]website. We set this up to help incoming first-year students like you. On the website, you'll find
[00:00:38.160]information that introduces you to engineering student services staff, links to resources we'll
[00:00:43.600]be touching on in this video, and some top tips about planning for a successful first semester.
[00:00:48.800]We really want every incoming student to review the information, so please visit the link.
[00:00:53.760]Get back in touch with you!
[00:00:54.800]You can contact your advisor if you have any questions.
[00:00:56.640]Engineering Student Services, or ESS, is a team of professional staff who work just
[00:01:03.200]for the College of Engineering to serve and support our undergraduate students.
[00:01:07.360]I'm not going to introduce you to every individual,
[00:01:10.720]but instead I want to talk about what services we provide.
[00:01:14.160]Advising.
[00:01:16.080]Some of you may have already connected with your advisor to discuss your fall enrollment.
[00:01:20.800]Your advisors will continue this work throughout your time with the
[00:01:24.400]College of Engineering. Advisors help with course scheduling and long-term planning,
[00:01:29.600]adding minors, and getting you connected to resources.
[00:01:33.920]Whatever your goals are, we are here to help you balance classes,
[00:01:39.040]involvement, work, and personal life.
[00:01:42.160]We also help oversee Nebraska Engineering Support and Tutoring,
[00:01:47.040]also known as NEST, which is our peer tutoring service for math, science, and the first
[00:01:54.000]two years of engineering courses.
[00:01:55.840]Student Development and Career Services
[00:01:59.040]Student Development has two parts: Engineering Career Services and Student Programs.
[00:02:05.360]Engineering Career Services can meet with you to prepare for a successful job or internship search,
[00:02:10.480]connect you with employers, and they're also the ones who put on our career fairs.
[00:02:15.360]The Student Program staff helps greet you at our front desks
[00:02:20.400]and they put on events, such as the new student welcome for our
[00:02:23.600]college. Scholar Programs. This team leads some of the major leadership and scholarship programs
[00:02:30.080]you might have heard about, such as the Kiewit Scholars and the Peter Kiewit Foundation
[00:02:34.800]Engineering Academy. Recruitment and Outreach. This is the team that helps us let young future
[00:02:41.600]engineers know that Nebraska's College of Engineering is a great place for their education.
[00:02:47.040]You may have had a tour from this team or their dean's leaders if you came to visit.
[00:02:53.280]This team also conducts outreach which is focused on educating K-12 youth of Nebraska about what
[00:02:59.840]engineering is and the many things that engineers can do. So there are a lot of resources in ESS
[00:03:07.920]and we hope that you'll come visit us frequently. If you have a question and you're not sure where
[00:03:12.720]to start, ESS is really your one stop to get support. Something we're really proud of in the
[00:03:18.400]College of Engineering is the Complete Engineer and I wanted to make sure we talk about it today.
[00:03:22.800]The Complete Engineer is a framework we use for our courses
[00:03:27.280]and outside the classroom activities in the college. The reason it exists is because we
[00:03:33.280]want our students to get a very strong technical foundation through their curriculum and activities
[00:03:38.880]alongside our incredible faculty and we want to develop engineers who have additional non-technical
[00:03:46.160]skills that we know are so important to be great engineers now and in the future.
[00:03:52.400]Whether you want to work in industry or go to graduate or professional school, this framework
[00:03:57.680]is available to all of you. We've created this framework to help you strive and grow in each of
[00:04:03.200]these six areas we call competencies. When you get to campus this fall, these competencies are going
[00:04:10.000]to be everywhere you look in our college: posters, in your classes, in your student organizations,
[00:04:16.720]and more. The complete engineer is a core part of who we are at Nebraska Engineering.
[00:04:22.960]Let's look at these six competencies and how we see them at Nebraska.
[00:04:26.880]Inclusive excellence. It's critically important that we learn how to work across our differences
[00:04:33.600]and embrace those differences. As we know, diversity, inclusion, and equity allow us to
[00:04:39.600]develop more creative solutions and solve big problems that impact everyone. Communication.
[00:04:46.240]This one sounds obvious. As engineers, you'll never be working just by yourself. You'll work
[00:04:51.600]on building skills to help communicate complex technical things to folks from all sorts of
[00:04:56.400]backgrounds. You'll learn how to share ideas and information respectfully, and will find that
[00:05:02.240]building relationships will help you succeed in many ways as a student and as an engineer.
[00:05:07.440]Teamwork. This goes beyond group work. Most engineering problems can't be
[00:05:12.880]solved by one person alone, and teams will be part of your classroom experience,
[00:05:16.720]internships, or research work, and your career, no matter what you go
[00:05:21.200]on to do. Self-management and leadership. We have
[00:05:25.200]to learn to manage ourselves before we can know how to lead others.
[00:05:28.480]Yes, this includes time management, but you should work to be accountable for
[00:05:33.280]yourself and be thinking about those around you.
[00:05:35.680]To be a future leader in engineering, you'll need to learn to take initiative,
[00:05:40.640]be empathetic, be open, and be organized, and move towards shared goals.
[00:05:45.440]Civic responsibility. Engineering is truly a service profession.
[00:05:51.360]You'll have a chance to make a positive impact on the world. Whether you're designing bridges
[00:05:55.840]people drive over, or working on computer chips for the next big tech device, you'll
[00:06:00.640]learn to keep an eye toward how your work as an engineer impacts the community around you,
[00:06:05.040]as well as society at large. Professionalism and ethics.
[00:06:08.640]It's really important to every person that the people who are designing those bridges and devices
[00:06:14.480]have integrity and act with professionalism and ethics in mind. Engineers work to improve the
[00:06:20.400]health, safety, and welfare of society so you'll be trusted to build responsibly and understand
[00:06:26.880]principles of ethics related to your work. It's a big role to be an engineer. We want all of our
[00:06:32.720]students to actively engage in growth in each of these six competencies as engineer students. You
[00:06:38.400]can learn more on our website and we'll be telling you more in your first year seminars about how to
[00:06:42.960]get involved and how to make steps in your development as a complete engineer. Anna Yelly,
[00:06:50.000]a graduate student at Kewa in Omaha, shares that she feels this program helps develop the leaders
[00:06:55.040]that the engineering field needs now and in the future. John, who visits us annually from Austin,
[00:07:03.200]where he works for NI, formerly known as National Instruments, always asks us when
[00:07:09.200]he visits what he can do to meet with students who are active in building the complete engineer
[00:07:14.240]competencies. He's given talks to our students before about the importance of these
[00:07:19.600]skills, and as he shared here, he actively recruits our students who are engaged with this program.
[00:07:25.600]Our hope is that you choose to dig into these competencies,
[00:07:29.840]go deep, and work hard to build these skills up inside and outside the classroom.
[00:07:34.240]There are many things that might help you transition through the first year smoothly. Nebraska
[00:07:42.720]Engineering Support and Tutoring, also known as NEST, is a free tutoring service for engineering students.
[00:07:49.200]Located in the engineering college, it's just a great place to study if you want to drop by
[00:07:55.440]and have some space to focus. Maybe ask a question or two if you're stumped on
[00:08:00.000]your homework. You can get support for most first and second year courses that our students take
[00:08:05.360]like math, chemistry, physics, and some of the common engineering courses. Lots of students use
[00:08:12.800]NEST so there's no shame in asking for help or just going to check your understanding of a concept
[00:08:18.160]with the tutor who took that class too. Depending on your major, you'll be in Engineering 10,
[00:08:25.280]which is the Engineering First Year Seminar, or Computer Science 10, which is for our computer
[00:08:32.640]engineering, software engineering, or computer science students. Engineering 10 is a great class
[00:08:37.920]if you're still thinking about a couple of different majors. You'll learn more about the
[00:08:41.600]complete engineer, careers in engineering, construction, and computing, how to be successful,
[00:08:47.840]and strategies to help you continue forward in your major. Whichever class you take,
[00:08:52.160]you'll learn a lot and make great connections to other students.
[00:08:54.960]There are a lot of other offices on campus, in addition to ESS, that are here to help ensure a
[00:08:59.760]successful transition to college. Many offices will offer success workshops with topics like
[00:09:05.520]motivation, note-taking, test prep, and stress management. There are also several other tutoring
[00:09:11.680]resources and resource centers around campus for you to choose to get support from.
[00:09:16.240]All colleges on campus have an academic navigator who's here just to make sure new students are
[00:09:21.040]getting the help they need in the College of Engineering, the Navigator, and the Engineering
[00:09:24.040]College of Engineering. There are also a number of other offices on campus, in addition to ESS,
[00:09:24.080]that are here to help ensure a successful transition to college. Many offices will offer success workshops
[00:09:24.080]with topics like motivation, note-taking, test prep, and stress management. There are also several other
[00:09:24.640]programs that are here to help you get started. The Navigator is me. You might contact me when
[00:09:27.680]you need help, but you don't know who to ask or where to go. If you're struggling and you need
[00:09:32.880]help figuring out where to start, I also do outreach to students. For example, I contact
[00:09:38.480]students who don't register for classes next semester to remind them it's not too late. I'm
[00:09:43.200]looking forward to working with you this fall. Next up, we're going to talk about some ways to
[00:09:46.880]get involved. Hopefully, you've heard someone say, "You should get involved." What they mean by that
[00:09:52.640]is find a student organization that can help you get involved. You can find a student organization
[00:09:54.560]or another group that helps you feel connected. Make friends, find a support network, and more.
[00:10:01.040]Getting involved means you're likely building some of the complete engineer competencies.
[00:10:05.200]We have about 50 student organizations just for engineering students. There's
[00:10:10.560]no shortage of ways for you to make friends and connect with your peers.
[00:10:13.760]We have student organizations based on identity, on your discipline,
[00:10:18.800]on academic achievement, on service to the community, and even a student advisory board who
[00:10:24.480]meets with the dean regularly. In the fall, we'll be helping our student organizations put on a big
[00:10:29.480]event called Rock the Block, which is our student organization fair just for engineering groups.
[00:10:35.620]Anyone's welcome, so bring your roommate. No matter what their major is, you can meet
[00:10:40.900]many of the student organizations, get on their email list, and learn more about what they do.
[00:10:46.140]We usually have food and games at this outdoor event.
[00:10:49.780]You'll be hearing about it during the first week of classes, so stay tuned. Beyond
[00:10:54.400]engineering, UNL offers student involvement of all types, for anyone like fraternity and
[00:10:59.900]sorority life, intramural sports, and so much more. In addition to student orgs, some of you
[00:11:06.180]might be in a learning community or another engineering program that you might have applied
[00:11:10.340]to as a prospective student. These also provide a good support network and resources to get you
[00:11:16.580]connected right off the bat and just have a lot of fun together. With so much going on, here's our
[00:11:24.320]students get involved in at least one thing. Again, this will provide you with a social group,
[00:11:30.620]a study group, and a support network. It's really important to your success to have folks around you
[00:11:36.540]in college. Also, it's really important that you check your student email. You're going to be sent
[00:11:42.300]opportunities to get involved and we don't want you to miss out. We have a big goal in the College
[00:11:47.360]of Engineering that every one of our students should complete at least two different types of
[00:11:51.960]experiential learning, which basically
[00:11:54.240]means hands-on learning and applying what you've learned in the classroom. The three types you have
[00:12:00.380]to choose from are internships or going on a co-op. While only a few of our programs require
[00:12:07.320]an internship, all engineering, construction, and computer science students should plan on
[00:12:13.420]at least one internship. Industry expects that you'll have at least one before you graduate.
[00:12:19.260]You can get paid for an internship in engineering. Undergraduate
[00:12:24.160]research. Get paid to work in a lab and gain great experience, especially if you want to go
[00:12:29.340]into research. Become a professor or go to med school or some other professional school.
[00:12:34.260]Education abroad. There are so many different ways to make education abroad affordable and
[00:12:39.860]accessible. Taking classes that count towards your degree. Students interested in studying
[00:12:44.680]abroad should work with the education abroad office early in their time with us to make a
[00:12:49.180]plan. As an engineering student, the engineering career services team is your dedicated
[00:12:54.080]career coaching resource. You'll have a coach who can help you polish your resume, get you prepped
[00:12:59.580]for career fairs, and provide workshops on building key professional skills. It's tricky to navigate,
[00:13:05.140]so we offer a wide range of support. Most of our students are required to take an engineering
[00:13:10.760]career development seminar, Engineering 20, which you can take as early as this spring to help you
[00:13:17.540]prepare your application materials and networking skills ahead of career fairs and other application
[00:13:24.000]processes. All right, here are several tips for you around common challenges we see among our
[00:13:29.660]first-year students. Keep in mind your academic advisor. They're more than just planning classes.
[00:13:34.900]You can get lots of other support. You can book appointments with your advisor online at any time
[00:13:40.900]once you get here in the fall. We want to help you stay on track, work through challenges, and get
[00:13:46.100]connected to resources and activities on campus. Faculty, instructors, and TAs are also one
[00:13:53.920]wonderful resources. They care deeply about your success. One tip we recommend is you start
[00:14:00.120]connecting with each of your instructors during the first week of classes. The earlier the better.
[00:14:05.560]You can always visit their office hours. Teaching assistants or TAs, whether they are graduate
[00:14:12.420]students or undergrad TAs, are in some classes to support you as well. We encourage you to reach
[00:14:19.160]out to an academic advisor or instructor early if you're having any kind of challenge
[00:14:23.840]We also want you to ask questions. It helps us help you. Another tip is to form your own study
[00:14:31.680]group. Find friends in your classes, student orgs, or your learning community and find time to focus
[00:14:38.000]together. NEST is a good place to start if you don't know many other students in your classes
[00:14:43.820]just yet. Lastly, time management. Now is a good time to be thinking about how you're going to keep
[00:14:51.020]track of everything you're balancing before you get here.
[00:14:53.760]College is very different than high school, and there's too much going on to try to remember
[00:14:59.480]everything. Find a system that works for you. Your phone's reminders or calendar app, your calendar
[00:15:05.980]that goes with your Huskers email or your Canvas, a paper planner if you like to get fancy, a monthly
[00:15:13.220]overview calendar for your desk, etc. Whatever works for you, but it's really important that
[00:15:18.820]you try something and evaluate if it's working. We find this is one of the biggest challenges
[00:15:23.680]our students face, so prepare now so you're ready for the fall. After today, the easiest
[00:15:29.740]way to contact us is by email. You can reach us at ESS at UNL dot edu and we will direct
[00:15:38.520]your question to the right person. Also, feel free to contact your academic advisor. If
[00:15:44.620]there's anything we can do to help, just reach out. That's what we're here for. We are so
[00:15:49.860]excited to welcome you to the College of Engineering this fall.
[00:15:53.600]Have a great rest of your day and Go Big Red!
[00:15:56.100]you
[00:15:56.720]Thank you.

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