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    Coolest Class: CE 334 – “The class where you break stuff”
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    / April 22, 2012 / Leave a comment
    One of my favorite classes I took as a civil engineer is CE 334. Technically, it’s called “Mechanical Behavior of Materials” but everyone in the department likes to refer to it as “the class where you break stuff” because the lab component is all about applying load to various materials until they reach failure. We stretch metal until it pulls like taffy and breaks (tensile test), we mix concrete by...

  2. Coolest Class: Advanced Principles of Physics III (PHYS163)
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    / April 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Around November of my sophomore year, I registered for PHYS163 on the registration website and dubiously considered the information posted for the class: Interference and diffraction of waves, special relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, condensed matter physics, elementary particles EISBERG. QUANTUM PHYSICS . (Required) ISBN: 9780471873730 New: $144.50 Used: $108.40    After 2 long semesters of Newton’s Equations, heat transfer, electric and magnetic fields, sound waves, circuit theory, and other...

  3. Women in Engineering
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    / April 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    When I first started considering engineering, I remember a few different people being surprised at my choice, remarking that there weren’t too many female engineers. Although this seemed like a big deal to those people while they were telling me, I didn’t think much about it. To me it seemed like just another stereotype — probably based on past truths, but not the rule and definitely not reflective of me....

  4. I Want to be Super Man
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    / April 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    I arrived to USC thinking I had the world in my palm. I was used to feeling like Einstein at my high school but when I got to USC that definitely became a foreign feeling during my first semester. Coming from an at-risk community in the outskirts of Los Angeles, my city was more than 90% Hispanic and my high school was 99% Hispanic. The majority of the families were...

  5. Managing Time as an Engineer
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    / April 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    College is a wonderland of opportunities- but sometimes, there are more worthwhile opportunities for us to handle.  One of the biggest problems I think we engineers run into is the sheer amount of commitments we make- we take a packed class schedule, and on top of that, we add fitness, student organizations, research, and more.  The results are unhappily exhausted engineers that do a lot of things adequately instead of...

  6. Electrical Engineering in My Own Words!
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    / February 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    When you’re in college, people always ask you what your major is. And especially in engineering — which is a lot of work, not going to lie — your major defines a lot of what you spend your time doing. So it’s a good thing that I love Electrical Engineering, since I spend a lot of time doing it! Everyone is involved in different activities, so everyone’s experience is different,...

  7. Electrical Engineering in my own words
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    / February 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    So let me begin by stating that I have written about this topic in the past here. Much of that information still applies so please check out my old post before continuing reading! Most of the information from before is applicable, except I have new classes in addition to continuing my student involvements. I am now taking 4 classes, each of which is on a totally different subject: Innovation (Senior...

  8. Engineering in my own words: Computer Science
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    / February 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Besides all the fun themed parties, weekend trips snowboarding, and days spent soaking up the sun which you can read about in everyone’s blogs, I promise we do study…. A lot. My first semester freshman year, I took my favorite Computer Science class where some of our projects included extracting an image from a green screen and placing it in front of a new background, creating a Facebook like network...

  9. Building Science Update
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    / February 18, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Hi everyone! I am writing this blog from a hotel in Santa Barbara – my lacrosse team is up here for Presidents’ Day Weekend to play in the Santa Barbara Shootout tournament. We have four games this weekend, and the weather is gorgeous! Look out for pictures next week!   For the past six weeks my Building Science studio class has been working on a project studying and drawing the...

  10. TGIF — Ready for the Weekend!
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    / February 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    So somehow its already more than halfway through February, three weeks away from Spring Break and despite not having had any of my midterms yet, things have sure been busy!  As I mentioned in my blog about my classes, I’m taking 18 units including two graduate engineering classes and have been quite busy keeping up with homework, projects, group meetings, student organizations, attending lots of career and networking events, filling...
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