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Sponsored by Marathon, the Pre First-year Academic and Career Engagement (PREFACE) Program is a multi-level program designed to develop our pre-first-year students into high-performing students who are confident, efficient, and results-driven engineers through a holistic approach toward academic and professional success in the engineering environment at The Ohio State University College of Engineering and beyond. More importantly, we want our PREFACE participants to learn life skills and pay it forward by becoming productive citizens. In order to help build community and development for Buckeye engineers to strive towards excellence, LEAP (Learning Community for Engineers, Architects and Planners) is our residential hall for all incoming PREFACE participants.

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With support from the GM Foundation and The Boeing Company, the Academic EnriChment and Career DevELopment for UndERgraduATEs, known as ACCELERATE, is a research and project based summer program for second-year students designed to accelerate their progress through the engineering curriculum.  Academic success enrichment and career development  programming will enhance student problem solving skills, expose them to key concepts necessary for matriculation in their engineering program and provide them hands-on problem solving experience through team, project-based learning.

• Learn More about ACCELERATE
• 2024 Cohort Applications open in Spring 2024

Open to all registered Engineers’ Council student organization executive boards the LEADership Retreat (Leaders in Engineering Advancing Diversity) is designed for student organizations interested in partnering with the Community, Access, Retention and Empowerment (CARE) office to engage members in constructive member development and service to the campus and surrounding community. LEADership retreat is a great resource for organizations driven to address access and underrepresentation in STEM.  

Retreat Focus:

1. Develop Leadership Skills – students explore personal leadership styles and how to leverage their strengths and weaknesses as part of a leadership team to accomplish common goals.
2. SMART Goal Setting – Executive board members review current year goals to ensure alignment with national organization’s mission and vision and to build concrete action plans and metrics to create greater transparency to the membership as well as accountability.
3. Build Community and Collaboration across groups to increase efficiency, effectiveness and networking opportunities.

Learn more about professional engineering organization collaborations and the 50K Coalition work funded by the National Science Foundation.

Open to all College of Engineering students, ELEVATE, is an initiative focused on the academic success, belonging, well-being, and retention of women of color and all those who support them in pursuing undergraduate engineering degrees at Ohio State. If you are interested in learning more about ELEVATE please click the link below to sign-up and receive more information.
For more information, email Gisell Jeter-Bennett, PhD.
 

ELEVATE Sign-Up

The Discover Engineering Series is a year-round presentation series that exposes students to and educates them on various engineering fields by showcasing faculty research, career paths of alumni engineers and job duties/responsibilities through industry partners tours. The series’ main purpose is to provide an opportunity for students to explore various engineering disciplines during their pre-major status. The goal is to provide insight beyond the classroom and to discover their engineering field with passion and purpose.