Make the most of your college experience from day one.
As part of this two-semester program, students will participate in five essential skills workshops. These interactive sessions will help students master key skills like leadership, teamwork, and securing internships, giving first-year students a head start in both their academic and professional pursuits. This is a terrific way to connect with fellow students, gain confidence, and receive valuable insights from mentors—all while developing practical skills that will benefit students throughout college and beyond.
Workshops
Leadership Big and Small
Reframes leadership skills through positive identity development, building competence and agency, leveraging their mastery in other disciplines to enhance problem solving and critical thinking skills, and identifying techniques to navigate around structures and barriers that impede their success.
Career Pathways You Never Knew About
Provides a broader view to roles/skills outside of mainstream engineering and computing careers, detailing the skills, certifications, and competencies needed by each role and the development of intrinsic motivation required in the workplace for individual success.
Characteristics of High Performing Teams
Students recognize the need to work in globally distributed teams, across multiple languages and time zones, and develop communication, organizational, and planning skills that increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Citizen Science and Its Impact on Your Community
Helps students study the impact of sustainability and conservation at scale as applied to environmental health and safety, water conservation, and energy efficiency, beginning locally and broadening to the global community.
How a Research Experience Can Jumpstart an Internship
Introduces course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURES) into existing first- and second-year curriculum and labs.
