College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Updated 6/23/21
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Required talking points
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STEM Buildings & Labs:
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​​Votey and (new!) Discovery & Innovation
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Labs: wind tunnel, an inductively coupled plasma facility, machine shop, FabLab
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Majors & Accreditation
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Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science​
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5 ABET Accredited Engineering Programs (Civil, Mechanical, Environmental, Electrical, Biomedical)​
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ABET accreditation means that these grads have met all educational requirements necessary to enter the profession.
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​Interdisciplinary learning where engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists work together... just like in the "real world"!
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Experiential learning opportunities (select a few ways to highlight hands-on experiential learning)
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​Clubs:
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AERO: Alternative Energy Racing Organization - students design and race hybrid and electric vehicles. Once came in 2nd place internationally!
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Engineers Without Borders: supports community-driven development programs worldwide by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects
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Society of Women Engineers: seeks to empower women in STEM and help them achieve their goals; hosts networking nights, resume workshops, and community service events.
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National Society of Black Engineers: emphasizes engineering through a social justice lens and advance Black professional engineers.
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Study abroad: ​ALL CEMS majors can study abroad!
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Internships: ​Examples of where CEMS students have interned include Burton Snowboards​, Google, NASA, and Tesla
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Research: CEMS offers funded research opportunities as well
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And learning through project-based learning in the classroom as well. Learning by doing is an important cornerstone of CEMS classes!
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Additional optional talking points
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Advising in CEMS​
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CEMS 050 (First Year Seminar) & Peer Advising: 1 credit seminar course for all first year students in CEMS, where they are also paired with a peer advisor.
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Career Readiness Program includes advising, internships, networking, and recruiting events.
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First year students are paired with a professional academic advisor for their first year, before being assigned a faculty advisor for their remaining three years.
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CEMS has its very own dedicated career advisor on staff.
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Math Help Sessions - drop in, group tutoring
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CEMS students can have a minor.
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There are Accelerated Masters Degree programs offered for all programs.
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You can point visitors to this website that CEMS made that has lots of video content for prospective students: https://www.uvm.edu/cems/tour-cems-and-learn-more
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AdvoCat Stories
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Experiential Learning in CEMS
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For hands on design clubs like the Steel Bridge team, it’s not just civil engineers! We have mechanical engineers, engineering management, and (in the past have had) business majors as part of the club, which is really helpful for learning how to work with an interdisciplinary team! Each year, we design a bridge and then do all of the fabrication in Votey, and as a team, we work together to get competition ready! The competition serves as an opportunity for students to network with students in other schools as well as with professionals from the American Institute of Steel Construction and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The trip is free for the team, and includes food, transportation, and lodging! Other examples of design based clubs AERO, Mini Baja, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Concrete Canoe Club. --Harrison Lucas
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One of my friends (Kirsten Jensen) roommate was a biomedical engineering student and built a prosthetic limb (it was a hand and arm) using the 3D printer in Votey. --Darcy Eliot
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This summer I was given an internship opportunity to work at GlobalFoundries in Essex, VT! I was put in contact with this company during one of the CEMS career fairs held in the Davis Center, and I started work in mid June! I worked as a Photolithography Camera Engineer within the Photolithography team at GlobalFoundries. I worked in the clean room, essentially working with super fancy cameras that used deep ultraviolet light to permeate a light-soluble material on a silicon wafer, creating microscopic electronic pathways that would form computer chips! And it was more than just busy work, my summer was dedicated to working on a tool check that I had to propose to the team at the end of the summer! It was a great experience and I received an offer to return next summer! --Nick Bowman
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One of my good friend Jamie Voynow is a Comp Sci major and has been interning and working for 2 years for Lockheed Martin outside of Philly, and gets to work on really complex coding mechanisms for a company that has a government contract and is working on national security stuff! - Grace Parker
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CEMS Classes
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During the first semester in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences all students are required to take the ENGR 001 course. In this course new engineering students are exposed to all the different types of engineering (electrical, mechanical, bio-medical, environmental and Civil). In one of the first classes we were split into groups and given a design challenge. In this challenge we needed to make a structure that would hold the most books. The materials we were allowed to use were straws masking tape and paper. We were given 45 minutes to build. We first sketched out a design and got to work. Ultimately our structure failed miserably but we all had a lot of fun doing it. ​
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