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BGSU College of Technology, Architecture & Applied Engineering: Q&A with the Dean
But I was like, you know my parents and go to college just like you know I'm going to get married and I'm like, well, no ones marrying me. So I hope they better do something.
Oh God.
So I I went ahead and went, you know, and I didn't know what I wanted to be.
Who has a clue when you're 18? I didn't.
Right now I can relate to that.
Yeah so.
Well, it's three, so we'll start to see if they're coming in a minute or two.
Erica bopped out.
And I don't know what else they have going on just before this one that they might already be in.
Some of our sessions have run a little bit late 'cause they're back to back to back so.
Well, she's holding OK so she hasn't let us start quite yet.
Hey Erica.
Yep, that's fine.
Erica Mills
02:02:07 PM
Hi Everyone!
Erica Mills
02:02:16 PM
Sorry about the late start - glad you're joining us this afternoon.
OK, here they come now bye see here there, here it's no problem. Hello welcome my name is Brandy bar height. I'm the director of enrollment communication here at BGSU and when I say here at BGSU I am on campus today. But it is our virtual Presidents Day weekend celebration and we are doing a whole series of on line events that hopefully you've been participating in as well as in person campustours. It's a little snow here in Northwest Ohio so being at home joining us for this BG issue. College of Technology, Architecture an applied.
Engineering Q&A may be the better spot to be this afternoon, so I am really excited to introduce Jenny Gallemore, the Dean of the College of Technology Architecture, an applied engineering. I'm going to turn it over to her and one or two minutes, but I first want allow everyone to get into the event 'cause it looked like we might have at the beginning had a like a little blip. Amoment or people weren't getting in, but now I see like 28 of you or so are already here and more are coming.
Erica Mills
02:03:31 PM
I'm Erica Mills - I work in the Office of Admissions and am excited you here. Drop your questions here for Dean Gallimore.
Erica is in our chat. Erica Mills. She saying hello to everyone. She's going to be our moderate are so you can put questions in that chat throughout the 30 minutes that Dean Gallemore is talking at about maybe 323 thirty. I'm going to pop back on camera, do a live Q&A with the Dean and we can get all of your questions answered today. So with that I'm going to formally turn it over to our guest of Honor Dean Gallemore. And I'm going to pop off camera, but thanks for joining us an. I'll see in a little bit as we start to gather those questions.
Well, thank you everybody for joining. I'm really excited that you spent arts spending some time to get to know about the College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering.
And I'm really looking forward to being able to answer your questions and tell you more about the college, just a little bit about myself. I'm a new Dean here. I've been here. This is my third year. My background. Personally is a degree a PhD in industrial engineering and operations research, and but I was a first generation college student and when I started in college and I'm from Southern California. Originally I started in the area of psychology.
Erica Mills
02:04:52 PM
Dean Gallimore was a "First Generation College Student" - that means she was the first person in her family to attend college.
And so sometimes I call myself the reluctant engineer because I just really had no idea that I wanted to go into this field. But through my different kinds of learning and opportunities, this is where I ended up. And so you know, you don't always have to know where you want to be in the end, but just start to enjoy the journey of where your life will lead you. So what I'm hoping to do today is to just give you a little bit of background about the college and show you some.
Erica Mills
02:05:07 PM
(I was also a First Generation College student!)
Some of our opportunities and that might spur some questions that you might have and give you some ideas. So I'm going to start off and tell you a little bit about you know, just list and show you a little bit about our programs.
Brandi Barhite
02:05:22 PM
and did I hear she is from California? What is your hometown?
And I'm going to show you some things better. How many student clubs and activities that we have talked to you about our Coop's give you some examples of facility and equipment. Show you some places where our graduates work and then some upcoming transformations for the college that are exciting. So I'm just going to go ahead and get started because I want to make sure that I don't take a lot of time.
Just showing you slides, but that we have a chance to kind of get to know each other and have you ask questions so.
So first I'm going to tell you about our programs and you may already be aware of all of our programs in the college, but I'm going to show you those anyway. We have the electronics and computer engineering technology and you'll see after each of our programs that will say something about them being accredited.
Derek Rather
02:06:22 PM
Lewis Center, Ohio!
Brandi Barhite
02:06:33 PM
Hi, Derek - how's the snow in your area?
Ann, you may or may not know about accreditation, but programs are often accredited by different organizations to make sure that we're following what the professionals believe are the important information that should be trained for education and learning. So in the area related to, for example, engineering and technology, the top accreditation agency is called a Beth Ann. As an example, if you get an underground, if you decide you want to go on for a Masters degree in engineering.
James Dages
02:06:36 PM
Rutland Vermont
Brandi Barhite
02:06:42 PM
James! We meet again.
Field you can't go into that program unless you've been in an undergraduate program. That's credited by a bet, so that's just an example. We also have engineering technology, which is more based on mechanical, and it's been newly named the mechanical and Manufacturing Technology Program, which will that program name will change very soon.
Robert Buncher
02:07:12 PM
Berea, Ohio!
Eric Zinn
02:07:13 PM
Perrysburg, ohio
We have a program in Mechatronics Engineering technology which has a is the combination of electronics an an mechanical in order to work on combined systems which most of our systems are today and that has a very strong focus on robotics.
Erica Mills
02:07:18 PM
Interactive Poll:
Interested in any of these programs?
And then we also have quality systems which teaches you about how to have systems build systems that are lean and have high quality.
And so those are four of our more technology based engineering manufacturing based programs.
We also have in our school the built environment. We have architecture and environmental design.
An the Masters program is NAAB accredited and the reason that's important is if you decide to become an architect, you have to take a test and the only way you can take that test in most states is if you come from a program that has NAV accreditation.
We also have construction management. Very well known. We have many many partners, industry partners and construction management. Actually in all of our programs.
We of course have programs in aviation. One is focused towards professional flight and learning to be a pilot. An one is focused on flight management and management operations, which when you think about the airline industry which is a multibillion dollar industry, almost all the jobs are not being a pilot, but in all the other jobs related aviation.
Erica Mills
02:08:38 PM
Interactive Poll:
Intersted in any of these programs?
We also have a program called different programs under Visual Communications Technology.
And we have a two year completion program. If you have an associate degree called management and Technology.
So those are existing programs at the undergraduate level.
And I also just wanted to let you know that we started a brand new program that will start in fall of 2021 this fall and we have a new bachelors degree in systems engineering and a new Masters of Science in Logistics.
In systems engineering, and they'll both be available. Starting fall 2021, an systems engineers are very highly demanded and highly compensated, as are most of our programs, and so that's another consideration is is to think about a degree in systems engineering.
So with that being said.
Ciro Dalton
02:09:31 PM
Lindenhurst, Illinois
Brandi Barhite
02:09:32 PM
Bennet - we will ask the dean that question for you.
Bennet Gwin
02:09:32 PM
I'm from Dalton Ohio
Sofia Marquez
02:09:35 PM
Holland, Ohio
Derek Rather
02:09:44 PM
The snow is not too bad now - supposed to be getting a lot more later!
Bennet Gwin
02:09:57 PM
Do you have to take that NAAB test to get into the architecture program or after you finish your degree to start your career?
James Dages
02:09:58 PM
aviation
Jeffrey Lacca
02:09:59 PM
Naperville, IL
Katie Hight
02:10:00 PM
Blissfield, Michigan!
I want to tell you a little bit about our student clubs and activities because classes is not everything that you're going to be doing, you're going to want to have a lot of opportunities for networking, getting to know people both in the University as well as the professionals who stay involved in our in our organizations and societies. So here's an example of some of our student organizations. We have the American Institute of Architects student chapter. It's.
A very very active chapter.
Alpha ETA Rho, which is our aviation international fraternal organization.
Alex Gere
02:10:13 PM
Brooklyn, Ohio
We have the engineering society. We also have a Falcon flight team.
We have the National Organization of Minority Architectural students.
And we have the purple hard hat switches are women in construction group. We have technical Association of graphic art and robotics club.
Eric Zinn
02:11:00 PM
Would you say that your students that graduated from your aviation program are successful after school?
Hudson Forman
02:11:01 PM
Grayslake, lllinois
We have a student Construction Management Association, visual communication technology organization, an an organization for women in technology. So along with all the other clubs that are available at the University, these are ways for you to get very involved relating to things in technology and working with other students in the college.
And just to show you some examples of of students and their activities, and here, here's an example of students working together and talking about mobile robots, and so that's one of our mobile Roblox.
Erica Mills
02:11:20 PM
Bennet and Eric - great questions! We'll bring these to Dean Gallimore during the Q&A! Stay tuned
We also have a club that deals with an works on an electric car.
Brandi Barhite
02:11:27 PM
Keep dropping those questions!
We have students who are interested in supply chain and materials handling within the.
Area of advanced manufacturing. Although although although supply chain and materials handling is is important for all for all industries were always having to move materials and so here's an example where some of our students were able to go to the conference in Chicago one year. An followed up by even in another year. Going to a conference in Atlanta. So we'd like to provide opportunities for students to meet people outside an industry in different kinds of avenues.
So that's always really a fun, fun thing to do.
And you can present information if you'd like, depending on projects that you might do. So this is just an example of of some students presenting research in a poster session.
And you know, the more activities that you get involved in, the more you learn and the more opportunities you have to put on your resume and to and to network and to move forward in your career and in your life.
Abby Swantek
02:12:39 PM
How long has the Architecture program been at BGSU?
Some other things include our learning facilities and equipment, and I'm really happy to say that since I've been here, we've been able to really get some new and interesting equipment for you to train on, because the idea in our college is that things are hands on that you are learning to do things so that when you step into your first job, you're ready to go and that the people who employ you.
Know that our students are ready to go so we have been looking at increasing our advanced manufacturing capabilities and these pictures are an example of our robotics lab.
And so you can see there are some robots here. Here's where they're building robotic pieces together.
And we have something called the E Factory, and the factory is the concept that you don't necessarily have to be present to control robots, so our labs are being set up so that you can actually be at a distance and actually still code the robot and watch the robot move even though you're not in the room. And this is really important for training, but also important in real life because some robots are very large and very dangerous, and you're not going to be.
You're the robot, so you are always controlling them from a distance.
Eric Zinn
02:14:26 PM
What does Bowling Green bring to the table in the aviation learning program that the other colleges might not (more specifically Ohio State)
This is another example of of our robotics lab, and we often are excited to help high school students. One who want to get involved in robots, and we have something called the best robotics competition. We are the hub for the best Rd robotics competition in Ohio and we have high school students from our state as well as other states who come to Bowling Green every fall to compete against each other in a robotic competition. And so we often bring people in.
Erica Mills
02:14:53 PM
Abby & Eric - great questions for the Dean!
As well, just to show what we're doing and we're always looking for students to help us with these kinds of activities with reaching out and helping other people and helping students get interested in the different STEM technologies.
Again, this is another example of the robotics lab.
And you know that it isn't just about creating robot learning to program robots that are there. The idea of robotics is also figuring out how do you build a system that has robotic components together. How do you actually decide what components are necessary in order for you to create a robotic system that can automate certain functions? So this is an example. These are things that students will build in order to bring the system together.
The other thing that we have in this area in these advanced technology areas related to technical and engineering is we have what's called an advanced manufacturing training unit, which is a mobile trailer, mechatronics equipment and process control training equipment that you can use. And this is actually in combination with other universities in Northwest Ohio, so there's a consortium of universities working together to share equipment so that we have more equipment than perhaps one University can afford to purchase.
So we have those types of opportunities as well as what we have in our own University.
But in addition to that.
Sofia Marquez
02:16:38 PM
How is BGSU’s architecture program better or different from other colleges like Miami University or OSU?
We have been building. We have been purchasing this year, a lot of advanced equipment and some of that includes. I'm just going to you show you some pictures of the things that we either just got or getting in before fall and that includes a Makerbot Replicator 3D printer for manufacturing something called a Faro arm, which lets you do inspection and reverse engineering of manufactured products.
We have a new Festo pneumatic trainer so that you're learning about Hydraulics and pneumatics and you work on those to truly understand.
Desktop waterjet cutting machine.
A concrete compression with a pro controller. Because when you're a construction management you need to understand materials and concrete is of course an example of material.
Material that's often used in construction management.
Some other things that we have included a new injection molding machine. I'm not even sure it's quite built yet, but that will be here if you decide to come to Bowling Green.
And we just recently bought this year a brand new CNC late. So you'll see that some equipment when you're creating mechanical objects are the older types of machines where you can cut and drill things, and you can do welding and you're doing them by hand versus having machine do that. So in most manufacturing companies alot of this is not done by hand anymore. It's done with these machines that are programmed in order to create.
A particular piece that you might be making.
We also just recently last week was delivered and effi Blue Tec Pro printer. This is a printer that prints very large pieces of information. It's a visual communication technology printer at very high resolution and this was a gift from the company who creates these. They're very expensive but large printing companies use them and they make the most beautiful graphics. Whatever you design it comes out great so this is a brand new technology.
Fairly new technology and we're lucky to have one.
So that's just some examples were constantly trying to bring in new training and things so that you get the hands-on experience that you need and not just sitting in a lecture trying to figure things out from a book or from somebody explaining to it to you, but to go in and practice.
Brandi Barhite
02:19:00 PM
These questions are great. I am getting ready to ask Dean Gallimore each of these. Anything else? Keep dropping them in the chat!
Another thing you've probably heard about an either somewhere else or maybe here is that we have a cooperative education program. We've had this program for over 50 years and every year our students are required to participate in Coop's with industry to obtain hands-on experience. So it's a requirement that you will need to at some point in your semesters, go work for a company.
It's close to full time for that semester and obtain this experience and the nice thing about the Coop is that you're gaining experience that you can't always get in a classroom.
Bennet Gwin
02:19:44 PM
Is balancing a sport like a baseball as well as architecture a difficult task for a student at BGSU? Have you had athletes complete the program while participating in a sport as well?
And a lot of those Co Op positions lead to your first job. So as soon as you graduate, you usually end up having some sort of a job after and we did a survey for example in the fall from fall 17, default 20 of students who graduated an all an of those 88% of them have a job or their coop help them get a job or lead to the job that they had. So this is a really important aspect of training.
An education that we we provide.
Sofia Marquez
02:20:19 PM
For the co-ops, do we pursue them on our own or do our professors help us find a suitable one?
And just as an example of a couple Coop's, we had one student named Mac who majored in electronics and computer engineering and he was very interested in going to NASA. He got a Co op at NASA and then he received a job at NASA and we have the same thing. Read as she decided. Try for a very coveted Google internship and those are not very easy to get. She did get an internship and she makes a point. If you make the right impression.
It's the ultimate interview because you've had an opportunity to be there. They look at how you perform and then they usually ask you to start or give you a job offer before you're even graduated.
And just an example of some of the other companies. Although this is not in any way exhaustive of the number of places that our students are placed, but you can see that getting a job in the area in a stem field, especially in the area of technology in the area of the school, the built environment, construction, management, aviation, and all of our programs, our students do get jobs.
And the other thing about the Coop program is that we have a full time person who who works on.
Erica Mills
02:21:29 PM
Interactive Poll:
Where would you be most excited to work?
Aspects of our Co op. Since every student is required to do them.
James Dages
02:21:36 PM
so are the coops required for all majors?
And we you are asked to try to find the Coop because it's part of the experience of learning to get a job and so you will be sending out resumes will help that can help you with your resume. You'll be out looking for internships and Co OPS for the semester for which you want to do that, but we will also try to provide you help as much as possible. Most of these companies have Coop's, you know year round.
And opportunities that happen all the time. So we're there to help you with Coop's we don't assign you to a Co op.
You often will do more since you do more than one Coop. In most cases you might Coop at one company and then come up with a different company in order to get different ideas of what you want to do.
So just to follow up now with.
What some other exciting things that are happening in our college?
If if you come here and I hope that you know wherever you go, you have a great time, but of course we, you know at a great opportunity. But of course, we'd love to see you in our college, but we have the school, the built environment which is composed of two programs currently which is architecture and environment. Environmental design as well as construction management. Currently they are located in two separate buildings, but we're renovating this school. The built environment and at the beginning of fall in 22.
2022 and one year. Both of those programs will be in one building and the new building that the building currently holds architecture. But when the whole thing is completed, it will include a new fabrication lab, which is a large space in order to make things, it will include a materials lab for construction management classrooms, digital classrooms for both construction management and architecture. So that's an exciting new addition that we're going to be.
Erica Mills
02:23:34 PM
Interactive Poll:
Seniors - tell us where you're at:
Starting to build in about 3 months.
Another thing that's recently happened is we've received $250,000 from the state of Ohio to purchase even more robotics equipment. In order to research and to help a training center and training aspects. So that's exciting news.
Also, our technology building, to be honest with you is not new IT is was built in the 1970s and so we just recently received funding from the State of Ohio to build a brand new technology building.
Erica Mills
02:24:45 PM
*TELL US IN THE CHAT* If you're still deciding, what's going to be the deciding factor? For some students, it's visiting campus, for others is seeing the Financial Aid package. It's different for everyone!
So that does take some time. We're hoping that we will start looking towards the design of that new building in the next three months that the beginning of the specifications for that building, and in the meantime last year as well as this year, some of our graduate students and architecture in their class are working to help create design ideas. So we try to involve our students and things that are actually going to happen, so we're hoping in the next two to three years we will have.
You brand new building.
And finally, another thing that recently a curd is we have received a gift from Owens Corning Foundation of $1,000,000 to create scholarships for underrepresented students in the School of the Built Environment.
So we're always looking for new partnerships. We're always looking for new ways to help our students, and we believe that these are some things that are really going to help us move forward.
Eric Zinn
02:25:22 PM
My deciding factor will be the success rate that graduates have after college
The other thing that you know is what I want to say is, you know, however you define success. It's up to you to define success. When I went to college, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I started out with a degree in psychology and I ended up with a PhD in engineering.
And.
Derek Rather
02:25:38 PM
Visiting campus and dorm rooms
You know life is a journey. It's not going. It is not on going to school for four years and then I will have have success.
Um success is always a journey are always moving forward, and so I really enjoy these quotes. There's no secret to success is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure, and I think it's important to understand learning from failure is part of that because sometimes as we go through college and things aren't working out quite the way we would hope. We might think that it's failure, but it's a learning opportunity.
Hudson Forman
02:26:08 PM
Final cost of attendance
And also success is not final. An failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
James Dages
02:26:19 PM
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Bennet Gwin
02:26:20 PM
Yea I'm still deciding and thinking if playing baseball is gonna be a struggle while trying to get a degree in something like architecture.
Sofia Marquez
02:26:36 PM
My deciding factors will be visiting campus, the financial aid package, & the architecture program’s success rate
And so I believe that you know any opportunities that you have along the way are very important. You also make your own opportunities an we here in this college on behalf of the faculty and staff. We would love to help you on your journey towards your lot lifelong success. So I'm just going to say thank you and I want to just open it up.
Erica Mills
02:26:50 PM
These are all such great considerations when you're navigating the college search!
And brand is going to help moderate some of the questions, but wanted to give you a quick overview of the college Ann and just really have a chance to chat with you or answer any questions you might have.
Antoine Gray
02:27:06 PM
My deciding factor would be the financial package.
Emily Piekenbrock
02:27:09 PM
How big is the VCT program roughly?
Katie Hight
02:27:10 PM
Thank you Dean Gallimore!
Thanks Dean Gallemore, that was great. I have my own ties to the College of Technology of BG and I still felt like I was learning from your presentation. There's actually quite a few questions so I'm really excited to share them with you. I did want to let you know that we did survey the group and.
Hudson Forman
02:27:23 PM
How many students are in the visual communication program?
Every major appears to be represented. There's quite a few actually from architecture and you'll see that in some of the questions. Also, we did a poll to see where students rather do their coop at an. The top was NASA, then Google, then Jeep. So just let you know that's what they're interested in, so we have quite a few questions. I'm going to jump into him right now for those who are listening students and families, you can keep putting in questions. Eric's sending them to me, so make sure we get to the mall.
So our very first question Bennett has been waiting patiently. Do you have to take the IT? How do you pronounce that nabab test?
Nab
NAB test to get into architecture program. After you finish your degree to start your career, do you have to take it?
now, so when you get your bachelors degree in architecture, you do not take the test because the bachelors degree you have to actually complete a Masters degree in order to be an architect. So once you finish the Masters degree then you can work for some time. But also you can take it. I think whenever you want and when you take that test.
That's the test that gets you your professional license to be an architect, so sometimes students are actually working in firms before they take the test, but you must have the Masters degree to take the test and the Masters degree has to be credited.
And so our Masters degree is, which also means we have more students coming to the undergraduate program as well.
Bennet Gwin
02:29:09 PM
Okay thank you so much, just heard you say something about it and wondered. Awesome!
Erica Mills
02:29:16 PM
Here's the link Brandi just mentioned! https://www.bgsu.edu/technology-architecture-and-applied-engineering/graduate-programs/master-of-architecture.html
Erica, that might be a nice opportunity to drop in that Master of Architecture website link just so students could, you know, consider the possibility of starting their undergrad for architecture and then continuing at BG issue. But certainly we have students who go to schools all around the nation to pursue that graduate degree in architecture. So thank you for that. We have a question from Eric. Would you say that your students that graduated from your aviation program are successful after school?
Now, I'm not sure like I guess I love what you talked about. The end defining success. I'm assuming Eric, maybe you can call to Quanta qualify that a little bit. Do you mean find a job? But I'll let the Dean kind of jump into that, and maybe we'll get more clarification from Eric.
James Dages
02:29:42 PM
how many students in the aviation program?
Eric Zinn
02:29:48 PM
Yes I do mean finding a job!
Brandi Barhite
02:29:54 PM
On it, Eric!
Well, for one thing, when you typically when you, let's just say it's a professional pilot job because a lot of people think about aviation. That way, if you're a professional pilot, you have to to get into the to the airlines. You have to have a certain number of flight hours on top of that.
What up to one of the ways that you do that is a lot of times people who are in our program get to the point where they also start to take instructor training. It's not required for the tree, but they learn to be flight instructors and ask their flight instructors. They're adding more and more hours to their flight time, which makes them even more attractive too.
The companies and so yes, you know, private pilots can get jobs Now we are in a bit of a crunch with jobs in terms of pilots at this time because of kovit, but at some point that will go away.
Eric Zinn
02:30:47 PM
I will also have my Private Pilot's license when i go to college will that effect my learning and where I start?
When I don't know depends on when covid you know changes and things like that in. But in aviation there are all kinds of jobs available, maybe not so much as an airport manager because there's only so many airports in the United States, but in lots of other types of jobs, including in aviation companies like Honeywell, Boeing and different places. And so I think that you have a good opportunity in the aviation field, yes.
And he has clarified he did mean a job after Rick said that his deciding factor when picking a college is our job placement rate. And so I do believe. Correct me if I'm wrong. Before Covid some years we were having 100% job attainment for our pilots, correct?
Uh huh.
There was a pilot shortage and we'll see where it is in four years when someone graduates. But the other thing to understand about our program is we just went up for an accreditation for that program and we should be finding out this month. We believe we were successful in obtaining the accreditation which is called Abby and most airlines will take pilots from people who graduated to school with the Abbey accreditation attached.
So that will open up everybody's opportunity. Once we have that accreditation for the jobs with Delta in the large carriers, another exciting thing is that we are moving towards purchasing. I should say the blight the flight school purchasing a flight trainer which can be used for some of your hours and that flight trainer which teaches you teamwork in an actual jet which you know we have individual piloting aircraft here.
It is something that you need or learn in order to be a professional pilot with the large error airlines and so will have that capability in about 2 years.
And since I want to make sure I'm theming the questions since Eric did ask an additional follow up, I will pose that now. Eric says he's going to have his private pilots license when he comes to college. I'll replace that when he comes to BGSU. So how will that affect his learning and when he starts?
If you know there are some rules in terms of where you get your private pilots license from, if you get your private pilots license from another University, then that would transfer, but if you get your private pilots license from a company where we don't know exactly how their training or what they're doing there, you may be required to still take, you know, the private pilot basic and basic training in order to complete so that they are sure that you have.
Um, the requirements that you need so you would have to speak with the advisors you know with the college. Depending on where you received your private pilot training. But if you do have the the.
Certificate it wouldn't take you. It usually takes people more than one semester to get their private pilot. Usually takes a semester and a half.
Erica Mills
02:34:23 PM
Eric - have you connected with Bryan Combs yet? He's a great resource
Well and you know, it might be helpful. Erica maybe provide Eric with Brian Combs name and contact information because that's a really great connection to start answering some of those questions which are super individual and we want to make sure that you get your question answered related to the experience that you have. All right, this questions from Sophia. How is BG issues Architecture program better or different from other colleges like Miami University or Ohio State?
Erica Mills
02:34:51 PM
Phone: 419-372-9457
Email: combsb@bgsu.edu
Eric Zinn
02:34:56 PM
I have not
It's a very good question, and I've visited Kent State's architecture program. So one of the things that was noted when when the NAB Accreditation Board came to visit us and the way that we're different than almost all the other programs. Cincinnati, OH State is were smaller and so we have more individualization the they consider our our program to be very, very committed. An interactive with the architecture industry here in this area.
And so that was one of the very big strengths that the NAV accrediting board found that even though we were smaller that that size actually helped us to provide incredible opportunities and training to our students. And so that's one way that we are different from those you get a little bit more attention.
But you get a great education.
You do Coop's with our with our program.
Well, Speaking of Co OPS, we do have a question and for the collapse do students pursue them on their own or do the professors help us find a suitable coop?
Erica Mills
02:35:40 PM
Aviation students - you can schedule 1:1 conversations with Bryan at this link https://www.bgsu.edu/technology-architecture-and-applied-engineering/schools-and-departments/engineering-technologies/bgsu-aviation/schedule-a-virtual-meeting.html
Eric Zinn
02:35:44 PM
Thank you! I will have to sign off, thank you!
So typically the professors can talk to you about some of the companies, but also our Director of Coop can talk to you about that. We can show you the different companies that have Coop's available or internships. Some of these are national companies, so you're competing against everyone else and you have to apply. It's like applying for a job.
Erica Mills
02:36:20 PM
More about the Co-Ops here: https://www.bgsu.edu/technology-architecture-and-applied-engineering/cooperative-education-program.html
So they do expect you to go out and look for these types of things, but typically so for example in construction management they can never have enough Coop's construction companies pick up park oops, we never have a problem finding anybody in construction management we have. We really haven't had very many problems in any of our areas. So if you are having difficulty, you really need to reach out to the faculty as well as the director of Coop's. Don't be afraid to talk to us so that we can help you because sometimes.
There is a disconnect between letting us know we'll say we'll go ahead and start looking on Internet sites and give you tips, but if you're having difficulty, you need to let us know so that we can provide more help for you.
Yes, all majors now the number of Co OPS difference depending on the program that you're in. So because of Co OPS are very difficult in the area of professional pilots.
Yeah, and a few more questions about Co OPS for James. Can you clarify? Are the Co OPS required for all majors in the College of Technology?
They have one Coop requirement. Most of the other programs have two so will be 2 semesters and construction management has requirement for three, so that's it does vary slightly, but everybody is required to do a collab.
And it's really important.
Yeah, in that it's that's unique to the College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering. We BG issue is 200 majors and not all majors require a Co op are internship and I think that in the Dean will probably agree that many students who then graduate from the College of Technology because of those Coop's are getting jobs quicker if not already having jobs lined up before they walk across the stage. So hopefully we can get to some of those success stories. I do have two questions.
About size of program, so we're curious about how big is the VCT. The visual Communication technology program? How large is the aviation program like student number wise?
Oh, let's see. That's hard to remember concern so many and it changes. But VCT has probably if you count everybody across there for years, it has, uh, probably about 352, maybe 400 students, but I think it's gone down a little bit with covid. So it's you know the class sizes there. The smallest class size is about 30 students in a class.
And you know it, you get a chance to get to know everybody. And actually in all of our programs, the aviation program is one of our biggest anet and most of them are in the professional pilots, so we have.
Probably it's a good question.
I haven't looked at the numbers lately.
The up to between all the time that they're taking. The four years, probably up to 600 students in that program. So it is our largest largest program.
Yeah.
She had you mentioned aviation being the largest program in probably a lot of that has to do with. That's one of BG issues. Signature majors like people come from all around the United States to major in aviation at BGSU. We did have a question. How is Bee Gees Aviation program different than Ohio State's program? And I'm thinking of the airport is my that's what I was going to say about you.
Brandi Barhite
02:39:57 PM
Any more questions?
One is we have our own airport and it's like the College of Technology is here and you know, one building back is the airport which is on our land Wood County Airport. It's being updated each year. We're getting updates to the runway so that more people can take off getting a new at some point another landing strip and so the other thing about ours is programs are different, But our program like similar programs.
The flight portion where you do your labs is run by a company, a flight company that we have an agreement with. Almost every one of our airplanes is brand new. They have just bought. We've only been in this relationship for five years and they have all new airplanes, so you're going to go to other places in. Their airplanes aren't going to be anywhere near the newness that ours are. We also have a brand new hangar and then we're building it. They're building another hangar now, so.
Erica Mills
02:41:05 PM
Wow! Dean Gallimore has a private pilot's license!
It's it's an area where it's easy to take off and land. You don't have to go drive to an airport, find a parking place, get on there all that extra time that it takes. I have a private pilots license by the way, and yes, I do. And I don't fly, but you know, it takes time when you're flying an you know having to go and park at an airport and do all that just adds even more time now I don't know how much that how much time that takes for other universities, but.
Um, you know, our program is just as good as any other program.
Well, I you know I know working in the Office of Admissions students just love the fact that their dorm room is a 5 minute walk to the airport. I mean, you get up and you walk to go fly and that is just so much better than getting in your car and you just feel just so connected to the University. So I agree with that. I mean we do have a question about architecture, just knowing that that major can be incredibly demanding. They wanted to talk a little bit about the balance. Like how do you successfully pursue an architecture degree?
But still be involved at BGSU. Whether that's in athletics or an extracurricular activity like. Is that possible?
You know, I think that's possible with any type of degree, depending on how you.
James Dages
02:42:08 PM
will an aviation student come pick us up in VT for our campus tour? :-D
Manage your time and the classes is not as to try to take. You know the classes.
You know, as you need to in the right order. Obviously that's really important in a lot of our programs and not to overwhelm yourself and maybe sometime take balance. The classes that you're taking that aren't related to architecture so that you don't feel overwhelmed any particular semester. A lot of people do their coop, so obviously in the summer time so that they don't have to take a whole semester off away from from those from taking your architecture classes.
Brandi Barhite
02:42:57 PM
James - we do invite you to see the airport on the tour! Yes! But it's not a first-class tour, ha!
So and you know the faculty over there are very willing to work with the with the students are very close, are all there, and it's a small area and so they all know each other really well. They know the faculty to faculty know the students because it's a big open lab design studio. So you get to know everybody. Even I go over there. And I know more of the students there than I do anywhere else just because they're all in one location and very tide together. So you know, whenever you have any kind of program, you can.
Um, that balance is completely up to the individual an an. It could be that you know for your success.
And what you need to do you have to let something go. You have to say, well, this is more important to me, and so I'm going to take longer to graduate because I want more experiences. Or it's really important for me to graduate in this amount of time. So I'm going to really focus on my studies. It's part of your journey. And so you have to help determine what's the best journey for you.
Robert Buncher
02:44:02 PM
If you do a coop during a spring semester, does that extend your time at BGSU for finishing your degree?
Got a new question in from Robert. If you do a coop during the spring semester and the spring semester for those who are with us is January through April, so it's a lot of winner. Does that extend your time at BG issue for finishing your degree? So can College of Tech students graduate in four years?
Well, we used to have a requirement in most programs for three Coop's, and so that was taking students a little longer to graduate. So I think moving down and sometime in the future, and that's not this year this year coming up the requirement is still three Coop's for a lot of those programs, but we're changing that requirement and you could move to the new requirements, and I think the other thing to remember is that we've opened up a lot more online courses and so you can also think about taking a Co op in spring.
And taking some of your courses online at the University, whether their general education or not, so that while you're at your Co op, you could still be working on your degree at night. We also offer the opportunity to take instead of a full time Coop where you're working basically full time for one semester. You can take a halftime coop across one year so you're now working part time for the year and taking classes. And if your coop.
Company is open to that. That's also something that you can do.
Brandi Barhite
02:45:37 PM
BGSU President Rodney Rogers - https://admissions.bgsu.edu/register/families
Great, well, I think the questions are starting to slow down, so I think that it might just be a nice time to remind everyone that today's session with the Dean is part of a larger event in BG issue or virtual Presidents Day series. Some of you might be interested in interacting with our President, BGSU President Rodney Rogers. Tonight he will be hosting students and families at 6:00 PM. He can talk about what fall 2021 will look like as far as.
In person classes, extracurricular activities, all things that we have right now on campus but want to continue to open up as we get closer to August. So I just dropped that link in there. If you would like to register Dean Gallemore, do you have any closing remarks? Any may be a success story that you've been particularly proud of in the College of Technology recently, before we wrap up.
Bennet Gwin
02:46:14 PM
Thank you guys very much!
Well, you know we've had so many stories that you can see on our website of really great success stories, and it's hard to pull any out because we have such great students and and but you know, I think.
Brandi Barhite
02:46:49 PM
Abby - ARCH has been at BGSU for decades! We are one of five programs in Ohio. We are newly accredited, though.
I think it's important to understand that success is really related to what your definition of success is and not somebody else is because you don't have to be a superstar. You have to enjoy your life and what you want to do for your life. And I know that there's a lot of stress that's accompanied with college. I have three daughters and one is going to be starting at BGSU herself in the fall, and I think that.
Everybody should be proud of themselves. Whether you had to overcome something huge or whether you just had to plot away like most of us and get through it. So again, success is how you define it and the biggest thing is don't give up and ask for help because students shouldn't be afraid. This is our job. This is what we like to do. We want to help you if you see me. If you come here and you see me stop me in the hallway and introduce yourself.
Because, you know, we're here for you and we want you to reach out to us.
Derek Rather
02:47:53 PM
Thank you!
Antoine Gray
02:47:53 PM
Thank you!
Robert Buncher
02:47:54 PM
Thank you!
Sofia Marquez
02:47:54 PM
Thank you!!!
Glad that they're starting to say thank you and they're starting to sign off. I couldn't agree more today does not have to be the last time that you're interacting with Dean Gallemore interacting with BG. Issue reply to our emails. Call us. Ask questions. It's a long journey until you start in fall 2021 and we're here for you along the way. Thank you so much for being with us today. I'm going to let everyone say thank you and goodbye. I'm going to sign off. Thank you so much. Have a great day.
Thanks everybody bye bye.