Connect | Lead | Inspire | Mentor | Belong
DOI Student Academic Success supports the College of Engineering's strategic goal to deliver the highest quality, evidence-based education experiences in a diverse and inclusive community accessible at all student levels. Staff connects students with opportunities to support their academic and personal pursuits and create programs and activities that increase self-efficacy and foster community while assuring that all engineering students understand diversity, equity, and inclusion as a prerequisite for excellence in an increasingly global society.
Click on the tabs below to view the collection of activities designed to connect students to peers, alumni, and industry partners through professional development seminars, hands-on skill-building workshops, industry tours, and panel discussions with professionals and faculty.
Mentoring and Preparing the Next Generation of Engineering Leaders
Experiential Career Exploration and Leadership Seminar, known as ExCELS, was designed to introduce DOI students to engineering careers and research through authentic inquiry activities sponsored by industry partners and research laboratories on campus. During spring semester the program provides opportunities for students to engage in hands-on learning and shadowing experiences with industry partners and faculty while gaining a better understanding of engineering design, safety and testing and work efficiency. Applications for the 2023 CAR ExCELS cohort are currently closed.
Please email Assistant Director Edwin Lee, PhD for more details.
Connecting Students, Faculty, Alumni and Industry Partners
The MEP 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.
Desmond Bourgeois, PhD
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Thursday, September, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m. Scott Lab E525
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Natalia Higuita-Castro, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Monday, September 26, 2022 @ 6 p.m. Hitchcock Hall, Room 426
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Harry Kennedy
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Charles Muse
Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering
Theo Nicholson, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 7 p.m., Hitchcock Hall, Room 410
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Tawfiq Musah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 6 p.m., Hitchcock Hall, Room 426
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