The Engineering Experience

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Beata Strubel  Choosing a major is a difficult decision. Continuing our series on major choice and career advice, CCO Ambassador Meagan shares her advice about exploring your strengths and finding an internship. Meet the Expert Meagan is a senior in Industrial Engineering. She has three internship experiences and will be working at GE Healthcare after graduation. At Purdue, she works as a CCO Ambassador and led the CCO Greek outreach campaign. She shared her career-related insight with WE Link to help you with your major choice and career development. How did you choose your major within engineering? Before coming to Purdue, I had a general idea of what major I wanted within engineering. I learned about my major by researching it online (especially through Purdue's course pages - ie Google search "Purdue ____ Engineering") as well as talking to my older sister who is a Purdue Industrial Engineering graduate.

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Emma Mann How did you choose your discipline within engineering? – One of the most common questions of prospective students and even first-year students This is the first post of a series of posts on how various Purdue students chose their disciplines. This post is an excerpt from a paper written for ENGR 194 (Women in Engineering Seminar) in which a freshman interviews older students within two disciplines of interest. Jennie - Junior, Mechanical Engineering (ME) Jennie originally did not know what engineering major she was interested in. She ultimately decided upon ME because both her parents and her sister had studied ME. With an interest in the mechanics behind medical devices, she leaned between biomedical engineering (BME) and ME. During a presentation in her first-year engineering (FYE) class (ENGR 131), Jennie found that ME has a medical side that she would be able to apply her interests to. Additionally, she became interested in this fi

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Catherine Courchaine  PMO Christmas Show - Every year, the Purdue Musical Organizations put on an incredible show in Elliott Hall of Music. This year is PMO's 81st show, and students are excited as ever! Alumni, families, and music lovers everywhere come to enjoy this production, and students can order discount tickets! Beautiful sets created in three months of work, skits and dialogues, and of course incredible musical arrangements highlight the performance, which is an annual tradition for Boilermakers of all ages. Purdue Memorial Union Christmas Tree - Since the 1930s, Purdue has decorated and displayed extraordinary Christmas trees in the Memorial Union.  This year's tree was planted in 1990 and is over 30 feet tall!  While they used to be shipped in from Wisconsin and northern Indiana, in recent years local benefactors have donated the giant trees.  An official tree-lighting ceremony is held annually and led b