Engineering 101: the Friday talks
Course structure
- Engineering 101 meets twice a week:
- ongoing team lab project(s);
- Friday guest talks.
- Lab projects are run entirely separately from Friday talks.
- Many students take Engineering 101 as part of FIWQS 100.26, the freshman
inquiry writing seminar for engineers.
- Friday talks:
- Hosted by Sam Fenster.
- Evaluation sheets give us
(the GSoE)
feedback about each talk. Turn them in at the end of class.
- They are also used to record your attendance, which will count toward
your final grade.
- Questions are encouraged at the end of each talk.
The talks
- Jan. 30th:
Sam Fenster,
on Computer Science &
Computer Engineering.
Slides [PDF].
Audio [MP3, 18 megabytes;
apologies for the poor sound quality].
- Feb. 6th: Prof.
Maribel
Vazquez
of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Vazquez' background is in mechanical engineering. Her lab, in which she
mentors grads and undergrads, uses nanotech devices to track the
migration of cells, including cancer cells, and the chemicals transmitted
among them.
Slides [PDF, 13 megabytes].
Audio [MP3, 16 megabytes;
apologies for the poor sound quality].
- Feb. 13th: Prof.
Fred
Moshary, director of the Earth Science Systems & Environmental
Engineering major.
Audio [MP3, 16 megabytes].
- Feb. 20th: Prof.
Mohamed Zahran
talks about computer architecture (not
as in “designing buildings on a computer,” but rather as in
“designing computers”).
Slides [PDF].
Audio [MP3, 18 megabytes].
- Feb. 27th:
Mitchell
Schaffler,
biomedical engineering: now at CCNY, recently director of orthopedic
research at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
- Mar. 6th: Prof.
Beth
Wittig,
Civil Engineering (with a chemical engineering background),
on pollution control, student involvement, and Engineers Without
Borders.
Slides [PDF].
Audio [MP3, 11 megabytes].
- Mar. 13th: Sam Fenster, on engineering ethics.
- Mar. 20th:
Andrew Podell, an electrical engineer at
Loral Electronics Systems,
Lockheed Martin, and
Comverse,
where he was director of research
and development, who retired young and became one of our Engr101 lab
instructors and a teacher
at the High School for Math, Science and Engineering.
His one slide [PDF].
Audio [MP3, 15 megabytes].
- March 27th:
Tony Aiuto, software engineer at
Google.
- April 3rd: Roger Haight of
Parsons Brinckerhoff,
on moving from chemical to civil engineering, working in a foreign
country, and his work on bridges.
- April 24th: Prof.
Jeff
Morris,
of Chemical Engineering, on interdisciplinary engineering research for oil
drilling.
- May 1st: Canceled due to
illness.
George Wilson, mechanical engineer
from Honeywell,
on work principles and manufacturing design.
- May 15th: No talk.
Have a good summer!
Check back here weekly for:
- additional material on past talks;
- next week's talk;
- room changes and cancellations.