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Lally School of Management for Engineering and Science Majors Webinar
Kevin Fletcher
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Kevin Fletcher
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Jeanine Thompson
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Jeanine Thompson
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Good afternoon, everyone!
Welcome to our Lally Management Webinar! My name is Jeanine Thompson and I am one of the admissions counselors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I want to start off by saying a big congratulations all the accepted students and your families on being accepted to RPI! We are so excited to, virtually, welcome you to the RPI Community and we look forward to connecting with you again over the next several months.
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OK, I think we're going to begin. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our lowly management webinar. My name is Janine Thompson and I'm one of the admission counselors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I just wanna say a big congratulations to all of our accepted students on this webinar. I wanna congratulate you and your families on being accepted to RPI. We are so excited to welcome you virtually this evening to our community. And we're gonna go through a few things. We have a few housekeeping notes.
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For this evening we have Doctor Kevin Fletcher. He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the lowly School of Management and he is going to present to you.
About the lowly school and the opportunities that you'll have as engineers, business students, scientists.
Architects and humanities majors are opportunities for bachelors, dual majors, minors, and even the accelerated masters.
So without further ado, please welcome Kevin Fletcher.
Thank you very much, Jeanine. Appreciate it. As, as Jean mentioned, I'm the Director of Undergraduate Programs for Lally School. I'm also a Professor of Practice in the school. So I have kind of a joint role of administering our business and management program and our business analytics program as well as teaching classes in the school as well. My, my thought was to kind of walk through, we have a pretty wide range of folks with different perspective majors on this webinar, which is great. And my thought is to kind of walk through you just a little bit of a snapshot of what the latter School of Management is, kind of what some of the features we have, how that might fit within.
Your plan, so this is kind of a rough agenda. I'll talk a little bit about each of our degrees, our business and management and business analytics degree both are Bachelor of Science or STEM based business degrees. I'll talk a little bit about how we focus pretty strongly on experiential learning.
And kind of hands on projects throughout your four years.
We'll discuss a little bit about our different centers that we have research centers and our Severino Center for Technology Entrepreneurship and.
Our faculty a little bit we can talk about given the mixture of the group here, we can talk a little bit about the the options for minors and dual majors and kind of how that works.
And then I'll be happy to field any questions.
One of the things I'd like to start with is just the idea that you know what, because we are a Business School within an engineering and science focused institute, it would make sense that a lot of our kind of curriculum and focus is really on quantitative and technology based.
Business opportunities. And so you look at the data, the move towards the use of big data in decision making in business is pretty ubiquitous across industries. And so as you'll see a lot of our curriculum is really focused on aspects of kind of a focus on quantitative analysis and data analytics and technology.
Not to emphasize it too much, but when you look at what employers are looking for, not only do they want those hard skills.
But they also want that kind of mix of soft skills. And so I like this this survey that from 2021 that looks at kind of the existing and future growth areas for skills and employers really looking for more and more for skills within graduates. It's not just about what degree you have, but what skills you're bringing to the organization. And so things like data analysis, interpretation, you know decision making etcetera are important, but so are things like communication, interpersonal skills and so a lot of our curriculum and the focus of our Co curricular activities.
Is really on building not only those hard skills but also those soft skills as well.
And and one of the other aspects I would say of the of the Lally School is the fact that we're focused on kind of a rigorous approach to things. We're one of only 5% of business schools world worldwide that are accredited by the AA CSB organization. So it's essentially an organization that strives for continuous improvement in business schools to make sure that we're actually teaching the things that are relevant for cutting edge professions as well as organizations.
Talk a little bit about our business and management degree. This is a little bit more of a a typical business degree you might find in in in any school, except for the fact that there's a very heavy focus on quantitative and technology skills, more so than you would see in a kind of traditional.
You know state liberal arts kind of school because of the where we are within the institute and I actually think if I have it here or not.
But you'll see the the coursework that you're taking. You'll be taking your Calc One and two computer science classes.
But also things like marketing, organizational behavior, finance, accounting, all of those classes are building your, your, your sort of skill sets to work in in a wide range of of companies. And the real difference between the business and management degree and the business analytics degree is just the level of courses that are focused on sort of quantitative and technology based learning so that you'll you'll see a heavier dose.
Of Math and science and computer Science in the Business Analytics degree more so than the Business and Management degree.
One of the nice things and I'll kind of land on this for a little bit given the audience we have, you know the the we have the two undergraduate programs. But one of the things that is a kind of unique feature within RPI is the fact that a large number of students pursue dual majors. And so the idea behind a dual major is that in any kind of major, any major that you're in, you have required math, science, core and a required.
Social science corps, we call our HOSCOR in a dual major, you're taking those, those core courses, but you're also taking the major courses for two different majors. So you're walking out with 1°, but you have two majors on that degree. The business program was interestingly enough, we have about, I would say around 17 different dual degree templates that exist. In other words, we've had students do 17 different types of dual majors.
The most common ones I put up here math, computer science, economics, design, innovation and society. We've also just recently codified in our in our catalogue and we're going to be pushing a little bit more our business and management and sustainability studies dual the dual majors are are a nice feature for students to kind of look at when it comes to kind of building a a broad base of knowledge. The one trick I will say is that we if you're coming in as.
Not as a business major, but you're coming in as an engineering major or science major. It's always good to meet. If you're interested in doing this, meet with your advisors within your major and also feel free to come to visit us in the in the Pittsburgh building to really understand what that dual major would mean.
For the business degrees, both the business and management and business analytics, we require 124 credits for graduation, whereas some of the other schools and majors that the credit requirements are different, slightly different, could be a little higher and so sometimes dual majors are a little tricky.
Keep under, you know, a credit hour load so that you know you're not thinking about spending an extra semester here. And for anyone who's coming in with AP credits or their transfer credits, that that helps make that path a little bit easy, easier. And so each one are you going to have a unique situation and it's always good to. You don't have to do it right away, you know, Often times students will start thinking about the duels, you know, midway through their freshman year, whether it's the first semester or early on in the second semester.
Christos Hamakiotes
07:10:41 PM
What other schools are accredited by the AACSB?
The dual degrees do get a little more difficult to do if you wait too long, if that's something you want to do, just because we want to know what other types of major classes you want to take so we can kind of fit it within your schedule. We also have a pretty wide range of miners if you're a business major.
And the.
The the other option that you can as a business major pursue different minors within the different schools, the five different schools in RPI.
You as a non Larley major also can pursue and we have this a lot with our engineering students and science students who pursue a a business based minor. A minor is made-up of four classes. All right. So a fairly straightforward way we're in in your free electives that you'll have to take, you just select free electives that are in that minor area and you can add that to your sort of portfolio. One of the things that you know I like to kind of emphasize whether it's our own business students or any student that's graduating.
From RPI is the goal I think is to have a diploma that's unique to you. In other words, a resume that's unique to you. So you may be graduating with a particular major, but what are the minors and concentrations? Internships, experiences, other Co curricular activities that when you put it on on a piece of paper, when you're going out into the world for, you know, to talk to people about your experiences at RPI, every student that's graduating for RPI will probably look different.
So it's it's an up to us in the advisors in the school.
As whether in in whatever major you're in to kind of help you think about how you craft that kind of tailorized experience within RPI itself as far as.
Jeanine Thompson
07:12:34 PM
Hello Christos! If you would like to know more about AACSB please go to this link: https://www.aacsb.edu/ And then check out the list: https://www.aacsb.edu/members
As far as our our programs, the business and management business analytics program, the hands on experiential learning are a big part of kind of what we do. It's a big part of what we try to focus on that can start as early as your freshman year. We have some classes where we will often invite executives to come in for the final presentations to watch students.
Presentations and actually get feedback from seasoned executives, you know, in the end, right in your freshman year out of the gate, we have oftentimes the faculty that are teaching our classes and I'll talk about the faculty in a second.
Because they're connected to industry and business there, there's there's an emphasis to try to bring in real world examples and experiences and projects into our into the classrooms.
It's a little more relevant for your own education B. From a faculty perspective, it's just more fun.
Like to bring in those real world examples and projects into the classes for students to get kind of their hands on as well.
One way that we really emphasize experiential opportunities is through our Severino Center for technology entrepreneurship. This is ARPI wide center that is connected to Lally specifically. And we've had a number of different students involved in projects and experiences through the Severino Center and that are really focusing on startups, entrepreneurships, etcetera.
We have a really neat thing going on right now. We just launched in the fall, it's going to kind of it's continued in the spring and going to continue next year call our Co creator labs where essentially we are having our our business students work with engineering students on startups and launches. We have a number of different kind of examples right now.
We're we're engineering students are getting provisional patents on products through their design innovation lab and then business students are are matched with those engineering students.
Really look at the commercialization and marketability of those of those patented ideas. And so there's a lot of different kind of products and businesses that are being.
You know, at the early stages of launch, in fact I just found out literally today that one of our teams that's designed and is looking at commercialization of a kind of innovative wind turbine product actually just.
Won the regional New York State Business Plan competition and is going to be presenting.
Next week in the in kind of the final statewide presentation where they could actually get access to some seed money as a part of their presentation. And so that was good news to hear. We have the entrepreneurship.
You know sort of products are coming out of out of our schools and our rally students are certainly involved, but also a wide range of majors. I think in the Co creator labs we have about 9 business students involved, we have a couple of architecture students involved, about a dozen engineering students from different backgrounds and so.
That kind of Co you know cross discipline approach is really unique and and you'll probably no matter what your major is, whether you're a business major or an engineering science or social science, you'll take classes with a pretty with a pretty good mix especially the electives of students with different backgrounds.
Another experiential opportunity we've been developing with an organization here in New York State, the New York State Technology Enterprise Corporation.
Works essentially to help commercialize disruptive technology, innovative technology within within companies. And we've launched this Inspire fellowship where we have our Lally students who are basically serving as interns for Nice Tech and teaming up with Nice Tech and their partner companies to look at kind of the commercialization of.
You know and and customer discovery with with products that are trying to kind of be launched, entrepreneurship launched within these within these companies.
So we've we just started that in the in the fall. We've had our, I'm sorry in the spring. We're going to be launching our second cohort in the fall and this, this is a kind of a growing program that we have happening right now that some of you may have the opportunity to participate in. We also have through the through Lally some research opportunities. Our our craft center is an NSF granted center that focuses on financial technology. We just had a on our campus a day long.
Conference or summit with with folks from from different universities as well as RPI looking at financial technology, our Center for supply networks and analytics if you're interested in sort of supply chain issues you can get involved in in projects there. And then we are just sort of launching our Center for ethics and emerging technology kind of on the heels maybe a little ahead of time but but in in good timing with the fact that RPI now has the one and only first quantum computer on our campus here and so.
The idea of artificial intelligence, machine language, quantum computing, what that means from an FX perspective and how businesses use that technology is something the center is going to be looking at and focusing on.
Our faculty themselves.
Are teach. So the same ones who do research within within the school are also teaching. Interestingly enough, well over half of our faculty actually have undergraduate degrees in something other than business. I was a biology major and then I did my work specifically looking at business strategy and sustainability issues. And so there's there's a wide range of folks that with engineering and science backgrounds that are now teaching in the Business School, which I think helps to kind of bridge and make that connection within the larger campus as well.
As far as Co curricular and support the the Lally School has been focusing especially in the last year really on building our business clubs we just held this week.
Our Honor Society induction for beta, gamma Sigma and our epsilon, delta Sigma honor societies.
A key part to to the school is kind of recognizing not only that you as prospective students are excellent, but there's even excellence within excellent, right? So the the folks, the students who are really kind of above and beyond.
And are, you know, hitting GPA S 3.5 and above, top 5% of the class involved in extracurricular activities in volunteer work, etcetera, have the opportunity to participate in our Honor Society. And so that's something you might want to look for as well.
As far as the accelerated masters options, this is a really interesting thing for not only our our Lally business students but also the non Lally students that come to RPI.
I was just talking to a fellow faculty member today about this, the idea of, you know, the number of students that are in an engineering or science undergraduate background who then have the opportunity to.
Finish in five if you're pursuing a Masters of Science degree, or 5 1/2 years if you're pursuing an MBA. So you'd be walking out within 5 or 5 1/2 years with a with a hard science undergraduate degree.
Kind of capped off with a a business degree.
And so you know, that's something that you're interested in. Again, that's a conversation with your advisor, not really really early, but within the first couple years because then then we can start to look at depending on what courses you're bringing in, how you might start fitting in those graduate classes your senior year, which helps to kind of speed up the masters program as well. And so that accelerated masters option is something that you know certainly is depending no matter what your major is, it's something to at least kind of be aware of and.
I think it's a pretty good, pretty good deal.
Obviously, RPI is celebrating its 200th anniversary. The Lally School itself just celebrated its 60th anniversary within the school, which means that we have a pretty deep bench of alums that we like to tap into and work with, and we try to get involved with our students as well.
Recent survey of our Lally alumni show that about a third of them are operating in organizations in the C-Suite level by C-Suite I mean Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, right. So leadership positions within organizations and so that's kind of where we're trying to to move you as you're you're looking to no matter what your major is trying to get into those positions as well. We have tracked our as you might have might expect our outcomes.
2023 were one of the best business schools by the Princeton Review.
A high percentage we usually have around.
Christos Hamakiotes
07:21:22 PM
Is there a link where I could read a little bit more about the honors society?
Jeanine Thompson
07:21:36 PM
Yes! Here is the link: https://lallyschool.rpi.edu/epsilon-delta-sigma-management-honor-society
Around 3 to 5% of students that after about six months are still seeking employment. But we we certainly are and have a pretty high percentage of our students that continue in the accelerated. About half of our masters students are undergraduates that are going right into that that Masters, Master's experience not only from the Lally school but also.
From other programs as well.
We like to track this one. You know, the average starting salary for a business major undergraduate in the US is 52,000. Our Lally graduates on average make about 36% more than that. A big part of it is because of the quantitative.
Background, you know so the the idea that you have that kind of quantitative data analytical skills, technology sort of comfort skills, those skills are really desired by employers and so you know we we have a pretty good.
A range of types of companies that hire Lally students. Certainly good ranges of of companies that hire RPI students, period.
Christos Hamakiotes
07:22:52 PM
Can you do the accelerated program for an MBA in 5 years as well, or will it for sure take 5.5 years?
But you can see just from the list, not only of our companies but job titles, a pretty wide range of career types that our students are walking into. And it's kind of unique. We I've had and I was teaching a class this fall and had a number of students that had done internships. An internship is required for all alley business students, right? So we work with you to identify an internship typically or from your sophomore through your, you know, summer of your before your senior year.
And the number of students that actually do internships and then are subsequently hired by those companies is phenomenal. And so I had students last fall who had already been offered a job in the fall to when they when they graduate this May. And I just ran into her the other day and she said she's going to take a month off and and travel a little and then then she'll start her her job that that she did her internship at. So those are the kind of stories we we like to hear because the employers are happy and and anecdotally.
The students that are going to do those internship experiences, given the rigor of the program, they are coming back and just sort of saying, OK, we did an internship at at at a site. You know, there were five or six other students from different schools and we felt well much more prepared based on our own, you know, abilities and skills to kind of jump into that internship experience running without a lot of training. And so that that's a testament to what our faculty are doing within the classrooms as well.
Couple other examples of the types of companies that at least in the recent past have.
Hired our students.
Jeanine Thompson
07:24:17 PM
Great question! You can complete and MBA with one additional year (total Bachelors and MBA =5 years). You will need to open your semester schedule early so you can complete 5 MBA courses as a senior (3 classes in the Fall and 2 Classes in the Spring).
I like to summarize kind of thinking of it this way. You know, sort of building a career is like building a building here. And the and the the foundation is the rigor of the courses you're going to be taking, the skills that you're going to be developing. The idea that we're trying to bring in practical hands on experiences in the class, that knowledge that you're bringing in. You also have opportunities to experience and work with research. We have an undergraduate research program.
Where you, even as a freshman, can be paired up with faculty that are doing research.
You can work up to 12 hours a week and actually get paid for it. And you get some experience working on research projects directly with our faculty. Those are really great experiences for students. Certainly the the idea that we want to make sure that what you're investing in has a return. So this is where the the rigor and the content of the programs as well as the experiences outside of the classroom are really important so that you're walking away once you graduate, understanding where you know how valuable you're going to be to an organization.
And ultimately getting into leadership positions that's that's kind of what it's all about. So hopefully that's that helps kind of give a quick little summary.
If we have, I mean, I've seen a couple questions and and Janine's doing a great job of kind of answering those questions.
Very good Honor Society question. Great. OK, one of the interesting things is we with the 2 honor societies. Just for just for a little background, the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society is an international Honor Society that's been around for decades.
And so we are a partner organization. Only schools that are accredited by the double ACSB can be a part of that Honor Society group. And so we had about, I think we had a handful of students, seven students that were inducted into the BGS, the Epsilon delta.
Honor Society is actually a Lally specific Honor Society that dates back to the start of the Lally school. And so we're really excited about that the the Beta Gamma Sigma is limited to the top 5% of sophomores, top 7% of juniors, top 10% of of seniors.
And then the Epsilon Delta is limited to students that have at least a 3.5 and above, have completed 4 to 444 credits and also have a volunteer and Co curricular activities, sports etcetera, leadership and clubs, those kinds of things. So they actually apply to it and and then are reviewed and are accepted. And so this year we had six seniors that were Epsilon Delta Sigma.
Inductees, they'll be walking away from us, but they were inducted and then five juniors and five sophomores. So even as a sophomore, you'd have the opportunity to.
Participate in the EDS as well.
Christos Hamakiotes
07:26:58 PM
What does the honors society do/what is it?
Other questions that I can help with.
Pierce van der Rhoer
07:27:12 PM
How useful will a minor in HASS be for individuals looking to become indie game developers?
Great questions Chris George just toast. So the BGS is a is a kind of a recognition Honor Society. And so again internationally recognized there are chapters in different cities around the world because it is international. The actual the EDS Honor Society is historically within Lally has been not only kind of sort of an advisory group for for the school and also a philanthropic arm of the school and so the the honor societies meets monthly.
And is involved in kind of philanthropic activities.
And you know it is purely student run. So our clubs and our honor societies, while I I act as an advisor to them in my role as the director of undergraduate programs. The students themselves are elected E board president, Vice president, treasury they run. They run these organizations themselves with our support.
How useful will A Minor and Hass be for individuals looking to become indie game developers?
That's a great question. It's a little out of my death for that. I would say that the pat answer to that is that's a great question to to ask the the gaming faculty folks, right So or or within the Haas advising hub because I know that they are, they may have more examples of students that have gone through that program and the different kind of minors and how they leverage those minors to help them from a career perspective.
Pierce van der Rhoer
07:28:42 PM
Okay, thanks!
Great questions though. Any other questions?
All right. Janine, do you have anything else to add? Did I miss anything?
I actually don't. I mean, I think you covered everything. I I like the question about the NBA.
Kevin mentioned, yes, you can get an MBA with Lowly. It's a great program and how you would do this. You need to open space in your schedule early on. So you need to create kind of an opening in your senior year schedule where you would take actually three or two.
Classes per semester. So you complete 5 MBA courses as a senior and then you just have one more year to complete the MBA. Very nice option for many of you who are in engineering, science, all kinds of backgrounds. Gaming, because eventually you'll be pretty quickly into management and you'll want to know how to read a balance sheet. To be honest, you want to know how to interact and talk about the finances.
Of your projects, very intelligently. So we provide great education for an MBA for those of you like dual majors.
One nice thing We've had some students graduate. We had a student graduate last year with a dual major in computer science and business analytics. He wound up with an internship while he was in school with Morgan Stanley, and he was actually hired by Morgan Stanley on Wall Street.
So I mean the sky is the limit on what you can accomplish. We have a current students in business analytics, dual majoring in economics. I mean we really just have some incredible pairing opportunities for any of you within the lowly school. We have great training in business and of course many companies have been founded at lowly. So if you're talking about indie gaming.
We had, if you've heard of Guitar Hero, that one of the founders actually went to RPI. And so that's famous gamers, you know, early gamers in the it's such so much more complex now.
We have many companies that have been founded and a Garmin has. If I don't know if anyone has heard of Garmin, but you know, they're like precision instrumentation for, you know, running to flying planes. One of the original founders is from graduated from Rensselaer, another idea.
If you've ever heard of the company Bark, they have a subscription service for dogs called Barkbox.
They actually were founded in 2008 and they were created.
Togetherness with another company and they actually went public and they're currently worth over a billion dollars right now. So it's pretty good for graduating in 2008. And they were just recently in the news. They are creating something called Barkair where you can actually fly your pet privately.
And your dog is treated like a rock star on this flight. So yeah, we have a lot of opportunities.
We would never hold anyone back. If you have a big idea, we've had everything from gun safety. A man was a mechanical engineer, he came up with a gun safety mechanism and he has a company now. We've just have so many ways that we are supportive in entrepreneurship and we give you a great solid foundation if you need that experience for your future job. And we just prepare you for the STEM economy in every level.
Maddox Harper
07:32:46 PM
are there study abroad opportunities for Lally students
So we have another question here from Maddox.
Yes, we have study abroad opportunities for Lally. Kevin, I'll let you speak on that.
Yeah, we in fact I've been working with our study at the our study abroad person in the international office about this. We we just set up a really interesting little study abroad opportunity for summer where students can go for three weeks in Germany and it equates to about four credits. So it's a class worth but looking at.
Business in the European Union, but we also have a number, I think 7:00 or 8:00, maybe a dozen at this point, schools around the world that we have kind of partnerships with for the study abroad option, one of the nice things about the study abroad.
Opportunity is that, you know, for those of you who kind of dove into the curriculum of RPI, there's something we call our Arch experience. And so one of the requirements of the Arch experience is that you you find a semester and you do what we call it an away experience and that can be research. That could be, you know, a Co-op or an internship, but it also could be study abroad. And so if you do a study abroad, you know, for like a fall semester of your junior year, not only is that a great experience and those credits for the schools that we partner with will be brought into your RPI.
Christos Hamakiotes
07:34:16 PM
I know you touched upon it a bit but how do you get admitted into the honors society? Also, is the process for getting into the accelerated MBA program any different for an engineering student, is it hard to get into that program?
Transcript. But also that counts towards that away experience that's required for for graduation. And so Maddox, when you when you get here and if you have questions you can come to me, I'll point you to Karen Dvorak who's our our study abroad person here at RPI and she would love to talk to you.
Maddox Harper
07:34:28 PM
Thank you!
Thank you, Kevin. We have one more question from Christos and he has a question. A couple questions there and I'll let you answer them.
CJ Guglielmo
07:34:43 PM
In the biomedical engineering major how would one create the space for the 5 courses in the senior year? Is there a sample course template that you can share?
Yep. So the, uh, the honor societies I was mentioning, I just want to make sure I'm clear about this. The honor societies I was talking about are specific to Lally students. But every other school every other program has typically will have some type of Honor Society equivalent usually is GPA based, Sometimes it's based on activities that you've been involved in, those kinds of things.
Our EDS Honor Society is limited to students who have at least a 3.5 or above and at least 44 credits as well as kind of extracurriculars if you will. Whereas the BSG is based on the what top percentage you are in your class and so are you in the top 5% as a sophomore, 7 percent, 10% as a senior within your class and you're eligible to to be enrolled in that BGS Honor Society as well.
As far as the accelerated NBA, we actually have a specific program our our our engineering to MBA program that's run by Doctor Margaret McDermott.
And so if that's something, if you're an engineering student, but you're looking at that kind of getting into that MBA program, we can put you in contact with that information for sure.
Thank you, Kevin. We have another question from CJ.
Great question.
Omar Khoga
07:35:56 PM
What are some of the best minors to pair with Mechanical Engineering? I was considering Design, Innovation, and Society or Economics.
That one is out of my sphere. So I don't know a lot about the biomedical engineering program. And so you would probably want to have a conversation again with your advising either you're advising hub. And the way to kind of explain this is that each school is sort of different Here at the Lally School of Management, we actually have two full time advisors that you will meet with. You're working with your faculty in the classrooms, you work with the advisors for course selection and other things like that.
Hello folks.
Hello folks, I think we both lost.
Power or something in the presentation we got cut off, so Kevin was explaining.
The biomedical engineering and basically you're allowed to come in with up to 32 credits and.
And so if you have a PIB classes.
Your advisor will actually sit down with you and go through your questions, any questions that you might have.
On your.
You know on your how many credits that you come in oh hi Kevin. We got both got kicked out of the system I think but.
Oh, that's interesting here.
Sorry about that. So I was just explaining to CJ.
About you can come in with up to 32 credits and which is excellent for API being college credits. The registrar would make that decision and they would sit down, they send the how many credits you get with your advisor. So you can sit down and kind of get your plan of study and just look at what you have to accomplish as in biomedical engineering.
Share that you're interested in maybe an MBA or dual in business?
And they can walk you through the different ways that you can tackle that. And Omar has a question about what best minors to pair with mechanical engineering. Yes, there is actual a dual major called design innovation in society that is popular for mechanical engineering. You can also get a minor in business management, which is very nice. It's I think Mechanical Engineers would be more into like corporate finance pretty quickly.
Because you're building something.
Trying to bring it to market pretty quickly.
CJ Guglielmo
07:38:53 PM
Thanks!
But that's a very good question, Omar. And then the other thing I want to share with you before we end tonight is that we have extended the deposit deadline from May 1st to May 15th. We know that the fast food situation has been really trying. So we want to make sure families get enough time to make a decision. You can also appeal your financial aid and I'll let you take up any questions.
Omar Khoga
07:39:27 PM
Thank you!
With financial aid. And I'm going to put that information here in the box and let Kevin talk to you for another second.
Jeanine Thompson
07:40:01 PM
Deposits extended from May 1st to May 15th!! If you have any questions about your financial aid please email finaid@rpi.edu.
OK, great. We're back and I answered Omar's question. Yeah, that's great. So these are, these are great questions that you're asking at the front end of your kind of exploration. So whether it's, you know, if you're a business major or even if you're a student who's looking at a business, a minor or a dual, you know you would you could certainly feel free to come to talk to myself or our advisors. But don't hesitate to ask questions fairly early. I mean you're you're going to want to get in, get comfortable, get, get you know, get, get acclimated the first few weeks of what it's like to be on campus.
Yeah, the classes you're taking etc. But then about halfway through the semester you you know you'll you'll probably end up meeting your with your advisors to look at that spring semester and these are really great questions to ask early on. You're not going to make a mistake right away in the first semester because you're going to have to take those has core classes and the math science core classes as well as those intro classes to your major. Those will be kind of loaded up as a part of your schedule within the fall. And so there's plenty of time to to really think about OK, what is it you want to do as you get into your second, third, fourth semester.
In some of these kind of customized, you know, degrees if you will, the duels and the minors and things like that.
Thank you, Kevin. That's very helpful. I don't see any more questions and I know that everyone's very busy. So I want to thank you, Kevin, for your time this evening.
I think if you want, let me put your e-mail in the.
Yeah, that'd be great.
And then FLETCHK.
Nope. I'll do it. No worries.
Kevin Fletcher
07:41:08 PM
fletck3@rpi.edu
OK, he's going to do it. Sorry about that.
Oh, I was.
OK.
Christos Hamakiotes
07:41:17 PM
Thank you so much for your time!
Shreya Nanda
07:41:18 PM
Thank you!!
No worries. So this is my e-mail. You're close. This is my e-mail. If anybody has any questions, either I will answer or I can find somebody who who can answer those questions.
Maddox Harper
07:41:23 PM
Will the recording be made available?
Natalie Schmitt
07:41:24 PM
Thank you!!
Yeah, that's terrific and the recording can be made available. I'm going to just send put my e-mail here for me if you want the recording and e-mail me and I will send it to you tomorrow.
Jeanine Thompson
07:41:34 PM
thompj19@rpi.edu - for recording@!
Omar Khoga
07:41:38 PM
Thanks for your time!
Nathan Finak
07:41:40 PM
thank you so much
Great. Thanks a lot everybody. I appreciate you taking the time. Hopefully this was helpful in you know, finalizing your decision to to join us on campus in the fall.
Kris Yuan
07:41:49 PM
A minor just requires 4 classes ?
Terrific. And thank you. Uh, oh, does a minor require just four classes? Sorry.
Adheesh Agarwal
07:41:53 PM
shantanu888@gmail.com
Yes, typically.
Dylan Ly
07:41:55 PM
Thank you!
Riya Mistry
07:41:56 PM
thank you!!
Maddox Harper
07:41:58 PM
Thank you. Very helpful
Yep.
Kevin Dong
07:41:59 PM
thank you.
OK, great. I'm just going through this. You guys are terrific audience. Thank you. We really appreciate the thanks. Thank you very much.
Chelsea Panton
07:42:04 PM
Thank you!!
Kris Yuan
07:42:05 PM
Thank you
Sam Phibbs
07:42:09 PM
Thank you.
Maddox Harper
07:42:10 PM
I would love a recording
Adheesh Agarwal
07:42:11 PM
Thank you
Yeah, this is nice. We have lots of nice. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Just e-mail me and I'll send you the recording. Maddox.
I.
Maddox Harper
07:42:20 PM
Will do. Good night!
OK. I'm going to end it now. Thank you so much. Have a great evening.
All right. Take care, everybody.