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The electrical engineers here at the undergraduate and graduate level are always doing research
projects trying to optimize any system of renewable energy by plugging it into the existing
grid and smoothly distributing the power to people when they need it most, during peak
moments. You have all the resources to do all the software simulation in class labs.
I like to say computer science is more of a focus on the software, the programming,
a lot of the algorithms, and just kind of optimizing how we write programs for today's
architecture. Whereas computer engineering is more of the hardware, so our computer engineers
are making our systems faster, more optimal and draw less power and smaller.
What I like most about the chemical engineering department is it gives you the opportunity
to go through the curriculum and still go to medical school, so I thought it was a neat
degree. You can go into the pharmaceutical school, you can go into the chemical, the
chemical industry, you can go into the oil.
The professors have an open-door policy, where you can go and talk to them in their office.
If you have any questions about homework or class lecture. You can go into their office
and ask them any questions.
Let's say you chose mechanical engineering and civil engineering. Wow, okay, that's awesome.
Civil engineers clean your water. We clean your drinking water, the water you drink from
your faucet, the water you take a shower with, all your daily water uses, civil engineers
clean and treat. It's not just about building structures or riding on a train, there's four
separate disciplines to civil engineering. There's geo-technical, water resources and
water treatment, structures and transportation.
You take all the required classes for med school and you also get kind of a different
perspective on problem solving and it looks really good to med schools because they know
that you've challenged yourself and they really like the way engineers think, so they're very
desireable and almost everyone from our program has gotten into the med school.
There are three branches in the biological engineering department. There's ecological,
biotechnical and biomedical engineering.
All the disciplines that we have within mechanical engineering come from automotive engineering,
aerospace engineering, nanotechnology, energy systems, biomaterials and a ton of different
things that you can make your own. so when we think about mechanical engineering, we
think about more of a physics based type of engineering, trying to use forces and different
force to make things work, such as how the pistons in a motor make it run faster, make
it get the top torque and speed that you want in your car. It's a great major. You can do
whatever you really want with it. One of the big emphases that I think is mechanical design
because that stems anywhere from a watch on someone's wrist all the way to an electric
powered car.
We're typically talking to people, and as I said, bridge that gap. We're the social
engineers. We're also learning a bunch of problem-solving skills, which companies are
really interested in. We're typically hired by your big Fortune 500 companies like Walmart
and Tyson and J.B. Hunt are all headquartered in Northwest Arkansas. A lot of the degrees
like to call us the imaginary engineers. But that's fine, because we like to say "Imagine
calling us Boss."