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Berkeley Engineering episodes

  • Episode 306: What’s Next?
    This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we are talking about What’s Next. You’ve finished Golden Bear Advising and you’re registering for courses beginning this week! ESS Adviser Chaniqua Butscher joins us to talk about what it means if you are on waitlists, how to make the best use of the […]
    10 min
  • Episode 305: Registration Tips
    This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we are talking about registration. Beginning next week all incoming freshmen and transfer students will be registering for up to 17.5 units in preparation for Fall 2019. Almost everyone has gone through Golden Bear Advising and has heard back from their ESS adviser, […]
    12 min
  • Episode 304: Learn more about Eng 92 & CivE 198
    The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer welcomes Matthew Sherburne, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, and Tiffany Reardon, Associate Director for Engineering Excellence Programs, to this week’s podcast. They are talking about Eng 92 which is designed for our first-year students and CivE 198, a course for our incoming transfer students. Matthew Sherburne […]
    27 min
  • Episode 303B: Transitioning to Berkeley Engineering: Transfer
    This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast we are splitting in two: first-year and transfer student experiences of transferring to UC Berkeley and becoming Berkeley Engineers. The second podcast is with two transfer students that just finished up their first year at UC Berkeley: Jonathan Kim, Electrical Engineering […]
    18 min
  • Episode 303A: Transitioning to Berkeley Engineering, First-Year Experience
    This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer podcast we are splitting in two: first-year and transfer student experiences of transferring to UC Berkeley and becoming Berkeley Engineers. Up first are two Berkeley Engineering students that just finished their freshman year. Alexandro Garcia, Civil & Environmental Engineering major, and Natalie […]
    41 min
  • Episode 301: Golden Bear Advising
    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
    18 min
  • Kresge Engineering Library – Spring 2019
    This week on The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we’ve invited Kresge Engineering Librarian Lisa Ngo to tell us more about the library and what resources it offers to UC Berkeley students. Make sure you check out the links below to reserve study room space, find out about library workshops and the library catalog – where you can find resources that are available online or for physical checkout.
    Important Links:
    Kresge Engineering Library
    Engineering Library Services
    Study Room Reservations
    Library Workshops
    Research Help
    Library Catalog
    Episode transcript
    LAURA VOGT: Hi! My name is Laura Vogt and I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services and the host of your podcast The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer and this semester I want to focus on some of the resources that we have that you might not have started using last semester but we definitely want to make sure that you’re not forgetting about them. As we get into your second semester of your first year or even if you’re a continuing student making sure that you know about all of our resources and today we’ve got Lisa Ngo from the Kresge Engineering Library which is our engineering library. Lisa tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do for the University.
    LISA NGO: Sure, thanks for having me. My name’s Lisa and I’m one of the Engineering Librarians at the Kresge Engineering Library. We have two other engineering librarians one of whom is named Anna Sackmann and the other one is Brian Quigley.
    LV: Can you give us just an overall view of the engineering library and what it does for our students?
    LN: The engineering library is the primary library that serves the kind of research and instruction needs for the College of Engineering. Most of the students that come to the engineering library are engineering students but we also get a variety of other students and we have books and services.
    LV: We’re going to talk a little bit about that. How do students use the library? Is there anything special that they have to do or a library card that they need?
    LN: No your CalOne ID card is your library card and then you can use your CalOne ID and passphrase to get logged into all of our online resources.
    LV: Let’s talk a little bit about those online resources. What do you have that students are able to get online?
    LN: We have, I can’t even count them. We have thousands and thousands and thousands of e-books. So you know you can access these books 24/7, anytime, anywhere you are. We also have things that you might not expect that the library would have. So we have streaming video, streaming documentaries, streaming music, and then we also have lots of textbooks that you can check out. We try to purchase all the textbooks, for all of the classes, so that we have them available. If students don’t want to buy them.
    LV: Oh that’s a really nice service to be able to do. I know those textbooks can get expensive.
    LN: Yes, they can.
    LV: If a student wants to go into the library, what are they getting if they go to that actual physical space of the library?
    LN: We’re one of the most popular libraries on campus and one of the reasons for that is we have five study rooms that are reserved. You can reserve them using the reservation system on the engineering library’s website. Each room comes with a screen that you can plug in your laptop to and a whiteboard. And they’re really popular for students to do group work. Students come in and do interviews there. They do webinars. So they are really, really popular rooms. We also have some drop-in rooms if you don’t have the foresight to reserve a room or if you can’t get a reservation because they’re so popular. And then we also have some board games. If you’re just kind of killing time in between classes and you need to take your min
    12 min
  • Center for Access to Engineering Excellence – Spring 2019

    This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we spoke with Luis Castillo, Manager of Student Development for Engineering Student Services. As part of our spring series about College of Engineering resources that you might not know about or might not have used yet, Luis gives us an explanation of the tutoring and study space available in the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence as well as an overview of workshops that are being presented this semester.

    Important Links:

    • Tutoring Schedule
    • Contact Luis
    • ESS Events

      • Episode transcript

      LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt, I’m the Communications and Events Manager for Engineering Student Services, and I’m doing a series this semester on College of Engineering resources for undergraduate students. I think there’s a lot of things that, maybe, if you’re a first year student and its your first semester here, you’re worried about just getting through the semester, or if you’ve been continuing here for the last few years, that you just don’t know all of the resources that we have available for you. And this week we’re taking a closer look at the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence, and joining us is Luis Castillo. Luis please introduce yourself and tell us what services you work with and for ESS.

      LUIS CASTILLO: Hello everyone. My name is Luis as Laura mentioned and I am Manager of Student Development here in Engineering Student Services. The primary things that I do is working with the different student organizations on campus. All the funding that goes from the College of Engineering to student orgs goes through me. And with that I hope student orgs develop different activities that they do or just come for any advice consulting. Aside from that I manage leadership programs including leadershape and then engineering excellence workshops that we do through the CAEE and then a larger role that I take on is managing the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence or the CAEE.

      LV: And tell us a little bit more about the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence which we’re gonna call CAEE from now on, a little less of a mouthful. I know it’s a physical space here on campus.

      LC: 

      10 min
    • Apply to be an Orientation Leader

      This week on the (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer we are talking with four students that were Golden Bear Orientation Leaders. We wanted to find out what they enjoyed about the experience and why they think more students should apply this year. Thank you to College of Engineering students Haruka, Tyler, Malvika and Jacob! 

      As a Golden Bear Orientation Leader, you become part of a team that works collaboratively to welcome and orient new students to the UC Berkeley community. Fill out the application and New Student Services will be in touch. DEADLINE TO APPLY: February 17. If you want to know more, contact NSS or attend an Information Session.

      Find out more online or attend one of the 2019 Info Sessions:

      • Monday, Jan. 28, 6-7pm, Unit 2 All-Purpose Room
      • Thursday, Jan. 31, 7-8pm, Unit 3 All-Purpose Room
      • Tuesday, Feb. 5, 3-4pm, 218 Eshleman Hall (Public Service Center)
      • Friday, Feb. 8, noon-1pm, 100 Cesar Chavez (Transfer Center)
      • Wednesday, Feb. 13, 6:30-7:30pm, 306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium)

        • Episode transcript

        LAURA VOGT: Hello and welcome to The (Not So) Secret Guide to Being a Berkeley Engineer. My name is Laura Vogt and I’m the communications and events manager for Engineering Student Services and I’m excited to have you here this week. We’re talking with four students that were Golden Bear Orientation Leaders to find out what they enjoyed about the experience and why they think more students should apply this year especially all of you engineers. So thank you Haruka, Tyler, Malvika and Jacob. Why don’t you please tell us a little bit more about yourself.

        HARUKA ICHIKAWA: Hi my name is Haruka Ichikawa and I am with third year studying civil and environmental engineering.

        LV: and Tyler

        TYLER WATERMAN: Yeah. I am also studying civil and environmental engineering. I am a fourth year student getting ready to graduate.

        JACOB FISHER: Hi everybody my name is Jacob Fisher. I am a student in the College of Engineering. I am currently a second year studying bioengineering.

        MALVIKA SINGHAL: My name is Malvika Singhal, I’m a third year bioengineering major and intended math minor.

        21 min