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Podcast: College Matters. Alma Matters.
Episode: About Majors: What is Engineering? With Profs. Glenn Beltz & Kevin Plaxco of UC Santa Barbara.
Description: Episode summary introduction: The goal of this series is to serve as a primer for High Schoolers about a Major, through our conversations with Faculty Experts in the various US Colleges and Universities.
We continue this series with Engineering, with UC Santa Barbara Professors - Glenn Beltz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Associate Dean in the College of Engineering, and Kevin Plaxco, Professor of BioEngineering.
In particular, we discuss the following with him:
What is Engineering ?
Impact to Humanity
Emerging & Interdisciplinary Areas
Skills Needed to Engineering
Opportunities in Engineering
Topics discussed in t...