It’s that time of year again to welcome our incoming first-year and transfer students to Berkeley Engineering. Throughout the summer (and beyond) we have a weekly podcast that will introduce you to staff, faculty and students in the College of Engineering and give you the not so secret guide to being a successful Berkeley Engineer. We are excited to start off The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer with an overview of Golden Bear Advising (GBA). This week you’ll meet two members of the Engineering Student Services team: Sharon Mueller, Director of Advising and Policy, and Kathy Barrett, Associate Director of Advising.
Each podcast will have important links listed below, as well as the transcript for the episode. Have a question that you would like addressed? Send us an email at [email protected].
Important Links:
Get to know Engineering Student Services & make an appointment with your ESS AdviserGolden Bear Advising
Episode transcript
LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The Not So Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. I’m your host Laura Vogt, the communications and events manager for Engineering Student Services and I’m very excited to be introducing the podcast to our newest students, the incoming freshmen and transfers. For those that are new, let me give you a quick introduction to our podcast.
Engineering Student Service, also known as ESS, wanted a way to communicate with students about important policies and procedures, events, deadlines, campus resources, and the give you the chance to hear from students that were in your position – not too long ago. We decided a podcast would be a great way to make this happen.
Over the summer we’ll have a podcast once a week and you can either download it from iTunes or sign up for an RSS feed on welcomengineer.berkeley.edu. We also have a full transcript available if you would rather read.
Each podcast varies in length from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on the subject. The website will include links to the resources that we talk about, so don’t worry if you miss a website or an email address, you just need to check out the website, welcomengineer.berkeley.edu. Our topics this summer are ranging from planning your first semester schedule, interviews with professors and advisers, and how to make your time as a Berkeley Engineer the best that it can be.
And that brings us to today, our first podcast of the summer. I’ve invited Sharon Mueller, Director of Advising and Policy and Kathy Barrett, Associate Director of Advising to give us more information on the first official task at ESS and UC Berkeley – Golden Bear Advising, often shortened to GBA.
Sharon, welcome.
SHARON MUELLER: Thank you.
LV: Please tell us a little bit about yourself and what your roll is within ESS.
SM: Like you mentioned I’m the Director of Advising and Policy, Engineering Student Services is the advising office that works with all UC Berkeley, College of Engineering undergraduates. I am over that part of the office.
LV: And Kathy why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and what your role at ESS is.
KATHY BARRETT: Hi, I’m Kathy Barrett and I’m the Associate Director of Advising. I do have a caseload of students. I work with material science and engineering students and students who are joint majors and I advise a little bit of the mechanical engineering majors. Sharon and I also worked together on projects for the office.
LV: Excellent. Thank you again, both of you, for being here, I really appreciate it. Let’s start off with what we’re here for today. Sharon you want to tell us about GBA and what it is.
SM: Sure. First I’ll start with just congratulating all of our new students and welcoming them. We’re really excited. We will get to meet you in person in August at Golden Bear Orientation. But what we’re here to talk about today is Golden Bear Advising
