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
- Jan. 31st:
Sam
Fenster,
on computer science &
computer engineering.
Slides [PDF].
Video [Zoom].
Should have mentioned in the talk, but didn’t: the list of
student
clubs.
- Feb. 7th:
Katie
Nailler from CCNY’s
Career & Professional Development Institute.
Video [Zoom].
- Feb. 14th: Sam
Fenster, on engineering ethics.
Slides [PDF].
Video [Zoom].
- Feb. 21st: Prof. Alison
Conway on
civil engineering.
Video [Zoom].
- Feb. 28th:
Inigo
Sanz-Pena
on mechanical
engineering—and wearable robots!
Video [Zoom].
- March 14th: Prof.
Marom
Bikson
of
biomedical engineering (BME)
talks about engineers—even undergrads—inventing medical
devices.
Video [Zoom].
- March 21st: Prof.
Reza Khanbilvardi,
director of the
Earth Science
Systems & Environmental Engineering program.
Video [Zoom].
- March 28th:
Prof. Ray
Tu,
on chemical engineering.
Video [Zoom].
- April 4th: Gregg Lewandowski, software engineer at
Google.
Video [Zoom].
- April 11th: Dr. Pamela Baxter Clenance, from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Video [Zoom].
- April 18th: Spring break: no classes.
- April 25th:
Chris Bobko,
director of the Grove School’s
Zahn Innovation Center, on
students developing ideas & products there.
- May 2nd: Alex Babich, founder of
Nuravine,
graduate of CCNY computer
engineering, and
Zahn Center participant.
- …and more to come.
Check back here weekly for:
- additional material on past talks.
- next week’s talk;
- changes and cancellations.