GSoE / City College of New York / CUNY

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. 30th: Sam Fenster, on computer science & computer engineering.
  Slides [PDF]. Video [Zoom].
  Attendance will not be counted for this session, because Zoom was misconfigured to not allow the new @login.cuny.edu usernames. If you couldn't attend, watch the video!
• Feb. 6th: Katie Nailler from CCNY’s Career & Professional Development Institute.
  Video [Zoom].  The Career Launch internship.  Clubs.  And there's a career fair coming up.  Sign up with CPDI to see details.
• Feb. 13th: Prof. Steve Nicoll of biomedical engineering (BME).
  Video [Zoom].
• Feb. 20th: Sam Fenster, on engineering ethics.
  Slides [PDF]. Video [Zoom].
• Feb. 27th: Prof. Alison Conway on civil engineering.
  Video [Zoom].
• March 6th: Canceled. Inigo Sanz-Pena on mechanical engineering—and wearable robots!
• March 13th: Dr. Pamela Baxter Clenance, from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  Video [Zoom].
• March 20th: No classes.
• March 27th: Prof. Ray Tu, on chemical engineering.
  Video [Zoom].
• April 3rd: Spring break.
• April 10th: Prof. Reza Khanbilvardi, director of the Earth Science Systems & Environmental Engineering program.
  Video [Zoom].
• April 17th: Prof. Panos Moutis explains electrical engineering.
  • Videos shown:  About EE [YouTube, 10m].   The IEEE professional society [YouTube, 1m].   IEEE engineering standards [YouTube, 2m].
  • Video of class [Zoom].
  • Connect your mail app to your new student email!
• April 24th: CCNY engineering clubs! Engineers Without Borders will speak.
• May 1st: to be announced.
• May 8th: Alex Babich, founder of Nuravine, graduate of CCNY computer engineering, and Zahn Center participant.
• May 15th: to be announced.

Check back here weekly for:

• additional material on past talks.
• next week’s talk;
• changes and cancellations.