Students participating in the College’s Engineers Week, held Feb. 19-28, came together to celebrate innovation and socialize.
They built marble runs with plastic tubing, used frosting and graham crackers to build an edible structure, browsed the numerous student organizations, and more than 300 students met employers at two different job fairs.
The just-over a week of activities culminated on Feb. 28, with the STEM Alumnight Networking Event, where multiple student orgs hosted a mixer for UWM alumni from STEM fields and current students to mingle and have fun.
At least one entire class, led by teaching faculty Madiha Ahmed in industrial engineering, took over the Modern Marbles activity one morning in the Kulwicki Garage. Mark Kiser, a sophomore in environmental engineering, enjoyed the experience.
“Participating in the marble activity really allowed me to interact with my classmates in a fun and engaging way, and really emphasized how important interpersonal cooperation and communication is,” Kiser said. “It was also a good place to start practically using the knowledge that we have been learning in our engineering courses, but in an informal way.”