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Hello

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everybody. Thank you for joining us 
today for the Study STEM programs at  

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the University of Guelph webinar. We'll just 
give everybody a few seconds to trickle in  

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before we officially start, but it's 
nice to see so many of you joining us.

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Hello again to everybody still trickling in. 
Welcome to everybody who's here with us so  

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far. While we wait for just a minute before we get 
started, I invite all of you that are here already  

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to just open up the Q&A button and type in the 
name of the city or the country that you happen  

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to be watching this webinar from, and I'm happy 
to read off a few responses so everybody can hear,  

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you know, where you're from, because you never 
know who's interested in studying at Guelph and  

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is from the same area is you. So please let us 
know where are you watching this webinar from,  

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and feel free to add in what program you've 
applied to, uh which major you've applied to,  

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and I can certainly start us off. Although I 
work at the University of Guelph, I'm coming  

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to you from the city of Kitchener today, doing 
this webinar from uh just outside of Guelph. So,  

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Kitchener is located in Ontario. I do have a 
real University of Guelph campus location up  

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as my background though, but I'm curious to 
know where all of you are joining us from.

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Okay, I'm seeing a few people from the 
GTA, so we've got Toronto, we have Vaughan,  

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also Kitchener, Guelph, um uh looks like 
a few people from the US as well, Houston,  

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Texas. Welcome, that's amazing. Ottawa, Caledon,  

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Hamilton. Interested in computer engineering, 
someone wrote. Perfect. Animal biology.

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Bachelor of Science. Environmental

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engineering. Peterborough, a few more from Guelph,
Windsor. Argentina!

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Welcome! That's fantastic! That's incredible to 
see the range of places, so thank you to all of  

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you who've shared that with us so far. I hope 
that gives you all some um an understanding  

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of just the breadth of how many people are 
in this room and from uh how many regions.  

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So that's wonderful, thank you, I think we 
can officially begin now. So, hello again,  

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and welcome to everybody to the University of 
Guelph's presentation today on STEM programs.  

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So we'll be covering the degree programs in 
science, technology and computing, engineering,  

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and mathematics. My name is Purvi, and I'm a 
recruitment officer here at the University,  

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and I'm the main host of this webinar today. 
I am joined by another staff member, Hillary,  

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and a whole team of current students that are 
pursuing their degrees here in the STEM areas,  

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so you'll get to meet them very soon too. We're so 
excited to have you join us and learn more about  

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these incredible program areas at the University 
of Guelph and as we've just seen so many of you  

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are joining us from different regions and time 
zones uh around the world, so we really appreciate  

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you taking the time to visit with us today, and 
learn how Guelph can play a significant role in  

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your future as it has for so many other students. 
I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge that the  

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University of Guelph resides on the land of 
the Between the Lakes treaty number three,  

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the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. 
We say this as a reminder of our responsibility  

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we have to the land where we live, learn, and 
work. So today's presentation will be about an  

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hour maybe just uh over a couple of minutes, 
including some time for question and answers  

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based on what we're seeing you put into the 
Q&A and what we know incoming first year  

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students usually want to hear about. So we'll talk 
about the four different academic degrees today,  

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plus you'll hear from our students and what 
opportunities they've experienced so far,  

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and then you as the attendee will learn about 
your next steps as a future student. Please  

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feel free to use the Q&A function throughout 
the presentation. My wonderful colleagues from  

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the admission team are with us today and they 
will be monitoring and answering your questions  

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behind the scenes for us, so thanks in advance 
to those of you working away on the chat today.  

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A little bit about me and then I'll pass it over 
to the others to hop on camera shortly after. I'm  

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a staff member now at the University, but I'm also 
a University of Guelph alumni. So I came to Guelph  

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years ago when I turned 18, and I moved here from 
a really small country in Southeast Africa called  

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Malawi. I earned a Bachelor of Science degree, 
I worked in the veterinary industry for years,  

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before doing a career change and then coming 
to work at the University um in the marketing  

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and recruitment sector. And I never thought 
I'd work on campus again once I graduated,  

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but even well over a decade later you never know 
where your journey takes you and it is certainly  

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great to be back on my old stomping grounds. My 
G reason why or the reason that I said yes to  

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accepting my offer to the University of Guelph, 
was because I knew that the vet school at Guelph  

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is a top ranked School in the world um it's 
number one in Canada, so it was a very obvious  

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choice for me. But also when I lined up all the 
brochures of all the schools I was considering,  

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because remember I lived overseas, so I couldn't 
pop over for a quick campus tour, or I didn't have  

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a rep come to my school and do a presentation. 
So I did have to literally choose, you know,  

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judge a book by its cover, um and I was most 
attracted to the University of G viewbook and it  

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was just an intuitive feeling that served me well 
and I couldn't have been happier with my choice.  

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I wholeheartedly recommend this institution as 
a place to live and learn, and I'm sure a lot of  

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you will get something just as positive out of it 
too. And with that, I'm going to pass it over to  

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Hillary to introduce herself. Thanks Purvi. I am 
Hillary Rooyakers. I'm the Engineering Recruitment  

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Officer at the University of Guelph. So a 
little bit about myself, I have a bit of a mixed  

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background. I did not go to the University of 
Guelph as a student. I was one of those students  

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that, it took a while for me to figure out where 
my interest laid and and what to do that how to  

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make money sort of tie my interest into a career, 
and that's what I encourage students to do here  

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today. Consider what are your interests and how 
can you pursue that into a career going forward.  

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I am from a small town of Bellwood, Ontario. That 
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And my G reason why, from a staff perspective, I 
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um staff like taking walks during their breaks, 
um going down to the Arboretum, and things like  

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that so definitely our Green campus is what I love 
Guelph so much. Awesome, thanks Hillary. And then  

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these are our amazing student panelists who can 
speak to each of the STEM areas that we cover  

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today from the student perspective. So I'll invite 
everybody on screen now, just take a few moments  

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to turn your camera and mic on, and introduce 
yourself, where are you all from, and what are you  

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studying in order of the photos. We'll start with 
Anna and we'll end with Peter. So go ahead Anna.  

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Hi everyone, uh my name is Anna and I sorry if you 
can hear noise. there's a garage door being opened  

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in my house. But I'm in biological engineering, 
I'm in my second year right now uh, my hometown  

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is Kingston and um I was actually originally born 
in Ukraine but now I'm studying here thank you.

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Oh, I think it's me, um hi everyone. My 
name is Vinay Joshi, um I'm a uh fourth  

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year undergraduate in the BMath program. I'm 
originally from India, southern part of India,  

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but um I moved here less than a decade ago, 
so yeah. Hi everyone, my name is Sarah. I'm  

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in my fifth year in the software engineering 
program with co-op. I originally am from Jordan,  

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um but I'm currently living in Mississauga, so 
it's just a city a little bit outside of Guelph.

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Hi everyone, my name is Karen. and I'm in my third 
year of biological and medical physics with a  

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minor in computer science and I'm from Sterling, 
Ontario which is kind of near Belleville.

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Hey everyone, my name is Peter. I'm in alumni, 
I was in the biomedical toxicology program  

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with co-op, and now I'm pursuing my MSc in 
chemistry with a specialization in toxicology,  

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and I'm actually from Guelph so I 
decided to uh stay in my hometown.

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That's great, thank you so much to all 
the students joining us uh even in the  

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you know in the middle of your very busy midterm 
season. So they all volunteered to be here and  

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share their stories with you because they were 
just in your shoes uh just a few years ago so,  

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uh I really hope that our audience members 
will learn some new things from you all

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today. A few interesting facts about Guelph, just 
because this may be your new home away from home  

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for the next four to five years, so a couple 
things you can look forward to. If you look  

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at the map on screen, Guelph is the big red 
dot. So we're very close, we're about an hour  

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away from Toronto, and 45 minutes from Pearson 
International Airport. The other two red dots are  

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our smaller sister campuses located in Ontario, 
as well, but all the programs we review today  

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are delivered at our main Guelph campus. Guelph 
is a great midsize city, rated as one of the top  

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places to live across the whole country, and it's 
also known as one of the safest. As someone who  

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has lived in Guelph for nearly 20 years, I can 
vouch for what a beautiful atmosphere there is.  

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We have a river and a lake here uh in the city for 
a beach day, we have sports arenas and stadiums,  

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lots of small and large events, artsy and musical 
festivals happening year round. It just makes it  

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a really vibrant place to be, and our University 
is considered midsize too. So there are those that  

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are much bigger than us and those that are much 
smaller, and I always think when you're living  

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alone for the first time at 18, it it's really 
helpful to have a place that's a very comfortable  

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size, easy to navigate, not overwhelming, and 
ideally with lots of nice outdoor spaces, to study  

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or hang out with your friends, and our campus 
is known for being one of the most attractive in  

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Canada. We do enjoy having a well-known reputation 
for a number of things, uh particularly research,  

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where we are the number one school to receive the 
highest amount of funding from research dollars  

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for discovery. Guelph is also very famous 
for its agricultural programs, along with  

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being Canada's food university, and of course our 
Veterinary Medical School, as I mentioned earlier,  

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which is ranked number one in the country and 
sixth in the world. We are also proudly among  

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the top 10% of the most sustainable universities 
globally. Before we uh dive into the programs,  

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here's some terms that you'll probably hear today 
from our students that you may not yet be familiar  

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with, so I'll quickly explain with an example. So 
what is a degree, what is a major, and what is a  

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minor. So we'll use the Bachelor of Science for an 
example. So a BSc is the name and the level of the  

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degree that you graduate with, and it's a defined 
academic area of study and then within that you  

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can select an area to specialize in and that's 
called your major. So for example, you could  

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select chemistry. So you would take about 75% of 
your courses um in the subject area of chemistry  

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and then the other 25% are usually there's room 
for electives. So you could use that space,  

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this next part is optional, but if you have or 
you develop a secondary area of interest to you,  

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and you formally want to pursue 10 courses in that 
specific subject area, then we call it a minor,  

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and it will show up on your transcript. So 
business is a popular example of what STEM  

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students often take and it just adds to your 
portfolio when you graduate. I didn't take a  

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minor, so it's important to know that that part 
is completely optional. What is co-op? Co-op  

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might also be a term some of you hadn't heard 
of. I know I didn't know what that was living  

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overseas until I got here. But co-op is an option 
and you can see if your program is available in  

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in it. We'll review the ones that are and if you 
qualify for it at the time of application. It's  

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just based on your academic marks, then you 
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and then other terms back in class studying. 
This way you get about four to five work terms  

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in, and you can earn while you learn, and you 
get industry experience, references, and a  

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professional network before you even graduate. 
If your program is not available in co-op,  

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there's still plenty of experiential learning 
opportunities for all students to get involved  

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to still give you those hands-on skills. And I'll 
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like. So in this schedule, uh anything in gold 
means you are in class on campus studying in your  

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courses, and in the red blocks, you're expected to 
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no academic classes. You'll see your first two 
years in this schedule, you're fully in class,  

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and you've already done half your degree before 
you even start your first work term. Each block  

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here represents four months, so when there's two 
back-to-back red co-op blocks, like in year three,  

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um you know at that point you could uh line up two 
different jobs for four months each, or spend one  

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eight-month term somewhere. Remember you are 
responsible for securing your own co-op job,  

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but we do provide you with lots of resources and 
assistance to help our co-op students make that  

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possible. And with that, let's dive into talking 
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with science. So our Bachelor of Science Program 
is our largest degree with 22 majors or areas that  

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you can specialize in. We normally divide them 
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science majors. Physical sciences are more related 
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sciences focus more on human and animal health, 
nutrition, and molecular biology. Anything with  

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the red square next to it means it is offered in 
co-op and regular. There is a difference in the  

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math courses you need for admission when you're 
comparing biological science majors and physical  

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science majors, um so just make sure you look 
carefully at what your high school requirements  

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are, whether you're applying to a major in the top 
half or the bottom half of the slide. Those of you  

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interested in healthcare have several options from 
either section to choose from, including physics,  

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neuroscience, biomedical toxicology, to name 
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students actually do have the option to do 
a local exchange with nearby Seneca College,  

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and take courses in your third year in applied 
areas like pharmaceutical formulations,  

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manufacturing, and advanced drug analysis. It's a 
very popular major for those interested in going  

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into pharmacy or the pharmaceutical sector. 
For our animal related majors, there's a few  

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here you can choose from, such as animal biology, 
marine and freshwater, biology wildlife biology,  

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and conservation and zoology. Your courses can 
include subjects focusing on animal genetics,  

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nutrition, physiology, and even ecology, which 
is the study of how animals and plants interact  

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with their environment. These majors are often the 
most popular, and certainly the most linear path  

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for future veterinarians, but you don't have to 
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specialty. You can pursue science however 
it interests you by even taking something  

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like chemical physics or microbiology. They can 
still lead you into the veterinary field. One of  

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our physics graduates complimented their 
degree with a minor in computer science,  

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and ended up working on the movie Shrek where 
they were able to add in the shadows to make  

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the animations look more realistic. In biomedical 
science and human kinetics, our students are among  

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the only undergraduates able to participate in 
a human anatomy dissection lab. So those future  

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doctors and healthcare practitioners really have 
a major advantage to studying at Guelph. This is  

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the perfect place for me to introduce our first 
science student Karen. So Karen would you like  

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to come on screen and just chat a bit about each 
of the points here, and then I'll ask you some  

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questions. But mainly take some time to share with 
our audience today what drew you to Guelph and to  

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your physics program. Absolutely! So hi everyone, 
uh my name is Karen, and I'm in my third year of  

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biological and medical physics. Coming out of 
high school, I was very interested in biology,  

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especially medicine related to human biology, but 
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get pretty good grades. So I figured I would do a 
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interested in, combined with something that I'm 
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kind of the perfect thing for me. Um I also have 
a minor in computer science, and that actually  

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started near the end of my first year. In the 
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first year computer science, just introductory 
to computer science course that you need to take,  

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and I took it and I absolutely loved it. I really 
loved the logic and kind of solving little puzzles  

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with little coding pieces um and being able to 
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Absolutely loved it, and so towards the end of 
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advisors, and we kind of scheduled out how I would 
be able to take that minor. Biological and medical  

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physics doesn't leave a lot of room for electives, 
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but with help from the advisors, who are really 
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out and kind of plan that all out. I'm from 
Sterling, which is a really tiny town near  

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Belleville, Ontario. And so coming from a little 
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at a university, I was a little nervous about 
getting into a big city. So I came to Guelph,  

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I came for a tour um before I had accepted my uh 
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experience to realize that Guelph was the right 
place for me. It's a really nice campus, first of  

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all, and although it's a pretty reasonably large 
university, it gives off some small town vibes and  

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I definitely felt at home here. And then we went 
for lunch on campus, and the food was incredible  

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and that was the kind of final piece that 
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me. Perfect, thank you for sharing that, and so 
a couple questions for you Karen. Can you think  

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of a really interesting course you've taken in 
your program so far that you enjoyed, and can you  

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tell us a bit about it? Yeah, yeah so in second 
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you take a course called Biophysics of Excitable 
Cells in your second year. And coming out of first  

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year, where first year you kind of take a lot of 
different fundamental courses, biology, physics,  

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chemistry, math, that are all very separate, and 
you may not be interested in all of them. I know  

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I'm not the biggest fan of chemistry, uh but 
I do love biology and physics. And so coming  

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out of that fundamental first year, and getting 
into Biophysics of Excitable Cells, which for  

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me is one of the most interesting courses I've 
taken. It really combines physics and biology  

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into one. You take all the things you hear about 
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and you really place it into a physics 
state of mind, and you understand what  

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those Action potentials are on a fundamental 
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me. That sounds really fun. And another question 
for you would be um that a lot of students are  

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torn between whether they take co-op or 
the non- co-op version of their program,  

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and you've actually done both, so can you tell us 
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goals? Yeah absolutely, so coming into uh my first 
year I was in the co-op program, and initially I  

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joined this major biological and medical physics 
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kind of career path that would lead me to, no idea 
what kind of jobs were even an option. And so I  

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joined co-op to figure out what I wanted to do, 
to do different co-op jobs with different options,  

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whether it's industry research or clinical based, 
and be able to do that discovery. On my first  

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co-op term, I worked at a optometry clinic and 
absolutely loved it. I uh really fell in love  

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with it and now I'm going to pursue optometry 
as a professional degree after my finished my  

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undergrad, but optometry school is another four 
years after undergrad, and I realized that since  

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I found what I want to do I no longer really need 
co-op. Co-op had kind of served its purpose for  

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me and so I did end up leaving the co-op program, 
simply just to shorten the amount of time so I my  

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undergrad would be four years instead of five 
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have been able to have that experience, so I 
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place. Great, yes, thank you for sharing that. 
Um so if anyone has any further questions uh for  

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Karen please pop them in the Q&A and then at the 
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answer together. So there are several reasons why 
one should study science here, and one includes  

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our facilities. We have the largest DNA Bank in 
North America, so every living animal and plant  

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is assigned a barcode so we can identify all the 
different species, and that information is stored  

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in a library, if you will, and cataloged. So 
that attracts a lot of world renowned scientists,  

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geneticists, and researchers to come to our school 
and access the barcodes we have. We also have the  

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Hagen Aqualab on site, which can simulate 
any aquatic environment in the world. This  

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is a center for studying things like, behaviour, 
disease, genetics on aquatic animals that live in  

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a variety of water habitats, and I love that our 
physics department at Guelph uh has helped NASA,  

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where one of our physics professors built an 
important instrument that lives on the Mars rover,  

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which analyzes mineral content of the rocks on 
Mars, which was a major part of the mission that  

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it was sent to do, which was determining if Life 
on Mars is possible. So we actually have a super  

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secret NASA communication control room on campus, 
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in co-op, there's plenty of ways to still 
get hands-on learning, through labs research,  

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and field courses. Some cool field courses you can 
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them will actually get you out of the province 
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oceanography work on the Atlantic, or you could go 
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find yourself in Costa Rica studying agriculture 
and visiting coffee and pineapple plantations.  

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First year labs can have an average 
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ratio to have and probably very similar 
to what you're used to in high school,  

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which is nice. So this is not a final list by 
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that our students have secured include using your 
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so there's a few listed on screen now, so doctor, 
optometry, chiropractor, vet, etc. Um you could  

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also work in nuclear energ,y forensic scienc,e 
environmental analysi,s drug development, uh the  

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list is endless. Here's a snapshot of what some 
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and it'll depend if you're on a biological or a 
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in any depth, but I would recommend scanning 
the QR code if you're interested in seeing  

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the specifics for your major, as there can be 
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first year again is really establishing the 
solid fundamentals across all the sciences,  

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so biology, chemistry, physics, and math, and 
leaving some room for electives to to explore  

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other areas. And now I'd like to introduce our 
second and final science student representative,  

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Peter. So he's a graduate and proud alumni 
from our Bachelor of Science program,  

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so Peter if you'd like to come on screen and 
just introduce yourself through the points here,  

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and then I'll ask you a few uh questions about 
your experience too, but uh again what drew you to  

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Guelph, into your program? Yeah so my program was 
the biomedical toxicology program with co-op. I'm  

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actually from Guelph, so the decision to stay 
was kind of hard, kind of tricky, but the the  

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main reason why I decided to um stay is because 
the biomedical toxicology program, I think it's  

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one out of two in all of Ontario. Um and this 
program was kind of perfect for me because I  

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was on the fence of whether I wanted to go into 
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think that this program kind of bridges all three 
categories um very nicely into one package, um  

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which would be the program. As well as it offers 
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the big reason why I chose Guelph also is because 
they have this new Summerlee Science Complex with  

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a bunch of different types of uh instruments and 
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access to if I went to different schools. As well 
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was very good. I think that because I wanted to 
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a department in comparison to students, uh gave 
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Thanks Peter! Uh so you were a co-op student, so 
could you maybe elaborate on an interesting work  

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term that you did during undergrad. Yeah it was 
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split them up into kind of however um or whatever 
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term at a private toxicity firm called Aqua Tox. 
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would have to kind of report uh like samples and 
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them to see whether or not they met the provincial 
guidelines. And I thought that was awesome because  

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it gave me an opportunity, I had very little lab 
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to hone my previous lab skills, as well as new lab 
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but it also got me exposed to what it's like 
working in an actual like company with deadlines,  

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um lots of networking opportunities, and a high 
ceiling to grow. So I thought that experience was  

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very eye opening, um and it led me um to a bunch 
of different co-ops in Guelph as well. Wonderful,  

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and as a science student, uh there can be 
many challenges in managing workload. So you  

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were very involved as a student, you did a lot of 
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course load. So can you talk us through what that 
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um and how you managed it all? Yeah so in 
my first, I think it was my second year,  

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I think it was my second year I joined the uh 
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here at the University of Guelph. This is where we 
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that are going through cancer and for people that 
have loved ones that are going through cancer. I  

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thought that experience was very fulfilling. As 
well as, right now I am an executive member for  

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the Guelph chess club and that's pretty 
recent, but I fell in love with chess,  

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and then um I just decided to make one of my 
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others at the University. Um my biggest advice 
for joining clubs, is join clubs that you you  

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know actually find interesting, um but go to a 
bunch of different meetings, you know at these  

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meetings you can kind of fall in love with the 
club, and what they're about, as well as meet  

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uh really interesting, exciting people. Um for 
the work balance with my research, it's more so,  

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again, like you need to research stuff that you're 
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in Guelph to get research experience because 
there's so much um to offer here. Um but you  

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just have to make sure that what you're studying 
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future. Awesome, awesome. And finally um 
can you talk a bit about your ideal career  

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outcome. So what kind of job do you hope to 
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so right now I'm pursuing a uh a master's uh in 
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As well as oligonucleotide chemistry, which would 
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the two worlds and right now I'm trying to design 
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but it actually inhibits proteins that are um 
throughout your body and cause uh different  

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types of cancer. And with this master's 
degree, I want to do a PhD degree right  

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after I complete my Master's and, then 
I want to work at a biotech company,  

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trying to develop a cheaper alternative 
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today. Amazing, thank you so much for sharing 
that. So if anybody has any questions for Peter,  

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or for Karen, remember just put 
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circle back to them at the end. And now 
I'll pass this section over to Hillary,  

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and invite her to come on screen and take 
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Engineering program. Thank you, Purvi. All 
right so next is the E of stem. All right,  

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so just a a brief overview of what I will 
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this presentation. So first of all why would you 
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that. Um next we will summarize each of our eight 
majors that we have at U of G. We did have seven  

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but we've recently added mechatronics, that is new 
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so you will you will get to meet Anna again, she 
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And then we'll go a little bit more in depth about 
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code on the screen. feel free to catch that right 
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of our engineering brochure. So anything that I 
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you can read a little bit more about it. Of 
course with the interest of time, we got to fit  

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everything crammed into a short presentation 
for you so please feel free to do that

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now. All right, so why would you study a BEng? 
So first of all, we've got uh complete four  

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major design projects in interdisciplinary 
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to Guelph. Um so when you come into Guelph, 
if you are a first year engineering student,  

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you select your major right away, so 
it's a direct entry program. So when you  

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apply to Guelph, you will select biomedical 
engineering or mechanical engineering,  

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but when you start you are taking a common core 
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projects with your peers. So these are in mixed 
teams starting right away in year one. Next,  

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is probably the reason why most students choose 
Guelph engineering is our strong community. So  

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whether you're in year one or year four, you 
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a conversation with the person beside you. 
There's a lot of um help surrounding you,  

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a lot of opportunities to join some clubs 
and groups, and social connections a lot  

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of chances to meet people that are on campus. 
Networking is very important within engineering,  

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and it's just a it's a nice feel within the 
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but a little bit strong within engineering. Um 
next, we are ranked 16 on Maclean's list of top  

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20 engineering programs and it is from 2023. 
We have a lot of opportunities for experiential  

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learning. I have a few slides that cover a lot 
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on a bit more. But there is a few listed here 
and additionally we have a supportive academic  

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environment, so we have three engineering program 
counselors right in our building if you need any  

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help regarding your courses, or your pathway 
through engineering program, and we also have  

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engineering peer helpers. So if you're maybe not 
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your peers that are in paid positions that are in 
upper years that are there to help you as well.

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All right, so we'll get into our eight majors, 
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next. You'll notice the theme going across all 
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so it's improving life in these different areas 
of engineering. So the first one we here have  

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here on the left, is biological. So that's for 
our students that are interested in chemical  

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engineering. This is a sort of chemical major with 
a mix of biological processes within. So they're  

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Improving Life by producing safe and abundant 
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solutions for agriculture and designing life 
enhancing and life saving products. There's  

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a little bit of overlap with biomedical, but 
think a lot smaller with the biological side,  

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less human health, there's still some human 
health in biological, but this one's more  

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chemical. This program is unique in that it 
has three specializations, where are other  

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majors you can focus your electives in an area 
of emphasis, this one will show up on your degree  

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when you graduate. So those three specializations 
are biochemical engineering, food processing,  

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and environmental sustainability. So next in 
blue here, we have biomedical engineering. So  

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these ones are concerned with human health. I will 
say that you can go into veterinary medicine after  

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biomedical engineering, as well. We have had 
animals in our motion capture lab as well, so  

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that's really cool um so they're apply engineering 
principles innovating or innovative technologies,  

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and designing solutions to improve human health. 
The next two majors are computer themed majors.  

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The one on the left there, the brown major, they 
improve life through advancing computer tech. So  

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to summarize it, they're building the computing 
machines, they're making them work better, faster,  

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they're making them smaller, and more discrete. 
Um so they're working on the computers themselves,  

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how they work. Beside that, systems and computing, 
in red, they don't care so much how the computer  

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was built, but they wanted to complete what they 
need the system to do. So they're using knowledge  

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from all of our other majors to create a system. 
So if you're thinking of, as an example um,  

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an ambulance. An ambulance has a whole bunch of 
different working parts, it's got the sirens,  

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the lights, the sounds, a systems engineer would 
figure out how to get all of those systems working  

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together as one. So on to our next four, so 
mechanical is our most popular major. It is  

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also the most widely recognized major across all 
industries. So they they have very hands-on, it's  

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not just automotive, it is incorporated into a 
lot of different industries, but they are applying  

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uh innovative design concepts and engineering 
principles to the world around us to improve the  

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quality of life. So I kept that one very general 
because it is a pretty general engineering major  

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to pursue. Uh next is mechatronics, so this is 
our brand new major. So this one combines a few  

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of our majors to create this new one. It is very 
programming, coding heavy, as well as our computer  

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and systems engineering. But it combines the 
mechanical, on the left here, to electrical  

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and computer engineering, with a bit of AI um 
to design these cutting edge smart automation  

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and robotic systems that improve life in general. 
Again this one, similar to biological engineering,  

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also has specializations. So students come in 
and they select one of the two listed here, so  

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you've got robotics, control, AI or manufacturing 
and automation. The last two are for our students  

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that are all about environmental advocacy and 
sustainability. So the one on the left, the green,  

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environmental they advocate for local and global 
change by working to improve life on our planet.  

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It is very general, it includes a little bit of 
water, there there's a lot of overlap with these  

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majors, but the one on the right there, Water 
Resources, they design solutions around preserving  

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and protecting our planet's water resources, so 
it's very water focused. Both of these majors are  

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um I'll say they're unique in a way that they 
are very civil based but they're niche areas  

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of civil engineering. So those that are on uh 
the call today that are interested in civil,  

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you might have an interest 
in one of these two majors as

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well. All right, so I will bring Anna on, she's 
the biological engineering student that we have  

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here today to give a little bit more detail on 
why she chose Guelph. Uh more about specifically  

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why she chose biological engineering out of all of 
our majors, um and what she hopes to do when she  

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graduates, and anything else she wants to share 
with you. Thank you Hillary. Um so my name is Anna  

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uh and I come originally from Ukraine, and I lived 
in Winnipeg, but now my hometown is Kingston. And  

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one of the reasons I chose biological engineering 
at the University of Guelph is, when I was in high  

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school, I'm sure as all of you are going through 
it, it was very hard to choose a degree that you  

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wanted to do because you don't really know what 
you want to do. Uh I was specifically interested  

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in like food systems and food science, but I 
wanted to incorporate technology into it, and so I  

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thought engineering was the perfect option for me. 
And uh Guelph has biological engineering, which  

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is a very niche degree. Not many universities in 
Canada have biological engineering. And so that's  

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kind of the main reason I even started looking 
at Guelph, because that really interested me.  

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And then as Hillary mentioned earlier, the three 
emphasis programs in biological engineering which  

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include um biochemical engineering, environmental 
sustainability, and food processing, those were  

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the perfect kind of options for me to tailor my 
degree to what I wanted to do in the future. And  

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you get that option to do in third year, so 
you have some time, two years to figure out  

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what exactly you want to actually do in biological 
engineering. And I found that in this degree I get  

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to incorporate kind of, I still learned very basic 
mechanical, computer science, um I still learn  

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coding, and build kind of mechanical components, 
while also learning biochemical processes,  

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which are Incorporated in biological engineering. 
And um I actually didn't even tour Guelph,  

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uh I think before accepting because I was very 
sold on the program. Um and um uh another reason,  

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kind of uh the the other main reason I chose 
Guelph is because I was one of the President  

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Scholarship recipients uh for that year. Uh 
that is the biggest scholarship in Gueph and  

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it's worth $42,500. So I would really recommend 
for anyone who's considering going to Guelph,  

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I would really recommend applying for 
scholarships. Guelph is very uh considerate and  

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it's very um common to get scholarships. I have a 
lot of friends who have come here on scholarships  

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and I think it's a very good opportunity to 
uh try and help you pay through university.

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Great, thank you, Anna. I'm going to touch 
on that a little bit as well or expand on  

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the scholarship piece. Um unique to engineering 
as well, we have $1,000 scholarships per each  

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major for women in engineering, as well. So 
we are really trying to promote women in STEM,  

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especially in the engineering field, 
which traditionally has been pretty  

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male-dominated. Um so that is another thing 
um if you're one of the female identifying  

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people in the call um just remember that as 
well to apply for the women in engineering

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scholarship. All right, so next is our core 
foundation so this touches a little bit more  

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on that um earlier one I mentioned that is direct 
entry, that we don't have year one engineering, so  

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all students come in in their major, but they do 
share all the courses on the left hand side here.  

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So we do have an interdisciplinary foundation, 
a lot of these courses are taken over your first  

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year, and then you differentiate immediately right 
away, by two courses is on the right hand side. So  

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if you remember the colors from before, I can 
sort of remind you if you need some reminding,  

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um the top two there is biological, biomedical, 
enviro and water. And then the second down is our  

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two computer majors, computer and systems, 
and then we've got mechanical, the orange,  

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and our new mechatronics, at the bottom is the 
purple. So the major differentiator here is the  

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programming, so the computer and systems, and our 
new mechatronics, all take that um the programming  

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for engineer. So it's an advanced programming 
course, so if you are pursuing a switch,  

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because I get often get that question if I start 
as one major since it's direct entry can I switch  

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to another major, the answer is yes. It is a bit 
of a process but it is hard to switch from one of  

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the other majors into a computer-based major 
versus the other way around because you will  

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need to retake that programming course. So the 
other notes here are at the bottom, so we've got  

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the chemistry. We have two different versions 
of chemistry now since uh mechatronics entered  

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our um engineering program. So we've 
got some of our students we call them  

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or majors we call them the wet majors, so the 
two or four at the top sorry, the biological,  

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biomedical, enviro, and water they will take a 
different CHEM 1040, and they'll take another  

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year they'll take second chemistry, where the 
rest of the students will just take CHEM 1140,  

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as they were taking a um they're not in the lab 
it's a hypothetical lab so it's an online lab.

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All right, so next we're going to get into 
Design. I'm usually in front of the design  

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showcase on a tour explaining all of our major 
design components of the program. It's neat to  

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see the different projects that have come out 
of Guelph. Um, first year design students do  

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something called teddy bear wheelchair. We call it 
the mix major design challenge, but we have since  

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brought accessibility back into the project, 
so now we're calling it teddy bear wheelchair  

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again. So what it is is students in about four or 
five people per team, and these are mixed majors,  

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like I said, across all of the majors. Um they're 
given a mechano set, and they need to build a car  

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with an Arduino they program the car to perform 
based on the constraints given that year. Uh the  

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teddy bear needs to stay in the car at all times, 
and then there's a projectile component as well,  

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which makes it a little bit fun with either a 
hockey net or a dart board of sorts. Second year  

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design is Prototype Design and Build Challenge, 
also known as the Kinder egg toy design. So those  

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on the call that know what a Kinder egg is, 
I know there's a lot of Canadians that know,  

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but for those that don't, it's a toy in a 
small container and you dump the container out,  

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the toy scatters out in pieces, you have to 
follow the instructions, put it together and  

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then, I'm going to say the larger Kinder Egg 
toys often have um a motion component to it,  

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so that is this project. It has to use stored 
energy to either fly, drive, or shoot a  

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projectile. There's a few other components to this 
project, um a commercial, a social media page, you  

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essentially a toy company selling your toy. Um so 
the first two years you've been given the problem,  

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year three, so in third year design, you have a 
creative solution project. For this project, you  

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need to fully define your problem on your own. So 
it's problem definition with a designed solution,  

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and this is a presentation and a report. Fourth 
year design, it comes all together. It's similar  

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to third-year design, but you have a giant 3x4 
foot poster that you need to design, and print,  

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and you have a prototype of your project, and you 
present these ones at a trade show style event,  

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called design day. So we bring in about 90 to 
100 industry judges from various industries,  

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and they come in, and they will watch you uh 
present your project, and then you will get  

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graded about three times on that. Um at the bottom 
half of this slide, these are major specific  

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design courses. So you don't just have the four 
design courses through the engineering program,  

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you will have additional design courses specific 
to your major or shared across a two or three  

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majors. So those are listed below. I'm going to 
ask Anna if she has done any of the biological  

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engineering design, I don't know if she has yet. 
I have not done any biological engineering design,  

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I think that course, when I actually get to do 
hands-on biological design, that comes in third or  

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fourth year depending on the co-op uh stream. And 
uh but I did some biological work in research last  

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summer, that's where I got my first ever hands-on 
experience in biological engineering. It's not  

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part of the course, but um it's a research 
opportunity that students can apply to. And  

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if you had to pick, which one of the major design 
courses have you completed, or which one are you  

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looking forward to? Um I'm so I've completed the 
first design course, the teddy bear wheelchair,  

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and I'm currently in my second design course. So 
I'm actually doing the an animation and the Kinder  

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toy right now. Um I would say I'm looking forward 
to the most for the fourth year project, just  

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because it's very kind, of it's putting everything 
together so I'm excited to see how it all comes  

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together and getting to present everything. But 
I'm really enjoying the design course right now  

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that I'm taking, just because it's just, it's 
just fun. It's like a game, we get to, it's a  

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lot of work for sure, but um you get to actually 
use engineering software online to um design like  

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3D parts, and then put like, make an assembly, put 
it together, make an animation, and you can choose  

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what design you want to make. And we're making 
an elephant. So actually, it's the deadline is  

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this Friday, so every single day right now, just 
before this, I was working in the computer lab  

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and assembling the whole, like all the pieces. And 
uh it's, it's fun, it's a lot of work, but if you  

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enjoy it, that's, that's all that matters. That's 
awesome. I will say that the second year design is  

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my favorite one. I get to see them 3D printing. 
um in the labs when they're starting to put the  

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pieces together. and then seeing the top five 
or six uh present at design day is really neat  

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as well. So that's awesome. All right, I think 
this might be our last slide for engineering.

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Yeah. Awesome, thanks so much. That was great 
engineering information, so if anybody has  

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any questions for Hillary or Anna, or anything 
regarding um engineering please put that in the  

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Q&A, and we'll uh review that at the end. And now 
we'll move on to the Bachelor of Computing degree,  

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and chat about what makes it unique. So the title 
of this degree is somewhat unique to Guelph,  

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as there's very few uh degrees in Canada called 
Computing. So at other schools, you can study  

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Computing, but it might fall under an arts 
degree, or applied science, or engineering,  

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or something else. So we're lucky to have it 
both as an engineering degree. You can study  

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uh Computing through the BEng degree, but also 
through this BComp degree. Um and the main draw  

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for this program, in contrast to the engineering 
one, is that there is no science needed to enter  

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this program, and there is no science built 
into curriculum, unless you choose to add it  

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in as an elective. So it's a huge advantage for 
those students who want to avoid the traditional  

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sciences. There are two majors in this degree, so 
you would have to select between either computer  

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science or software engineering, and I'll get to 
the differences between the two on the next slide.  

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But given that the science part is not mandatory 
in this degree, our software engineering major  

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is not considered an accredited engineering 
major, in case any anyone was interested in  

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that professional engineering designation. A brand 
new curriculum change starting this fall will be  

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that students must select one of the four areas 
of emphasis listed on screen. So you would take  

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eight courses in your chosen area, and you'll see 
it's artificial intelligence, or data science,  

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or cybersecurity, or human computer interaction. 
And then it will show up on your transcript  

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after completion. You don't need to declare 
this now, it's not part of your application,  

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but usually by the end of first year, um you can 
start thinking about which of those four themes  

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might align with your goals and interests 
the most. The location of our school works  

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in your favor too. All the major tech and 
commerce companies, or big Canadian banks,  

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government offices, large health care facilities, 
they all have central offices or headquarters  

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uh within a 1 hour radius, in what we call North 
Silicon Valley. So that kind of corridor between  

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Toronto and Waterloo in which Guelph is right in 
the middle. So for summer jobs, co-op placements,  

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internships, and graduation opportunities, uh a 
lot of them are within really close proximity.  

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So that's a big advantage to our students, and 
uh, and something that local employers really  

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enjoy too. Uh we'll talk about some companies our 
graduates and co-op students have worked at later.  

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Uh so you'll see the range of industries that you 
can apply your computing skills to. And at Guelph,  

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we recognize that some fields like computing, and 
and STEM sometimes in general, have historically  

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been more masculine, and we want to change that 
narrative, and make an inclusive environment for  

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women um and non-binary people to feel comfortable 
to join and excel in their chosen field. So the  

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computing department does have clubs like GWiCS or 
Guelph Women in Computer Science to create those  

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female communities, and they host female industry 
speakers, and have workshops to support you as

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needed. So when differentiating between the two 
majors, uh and remember they're both available  

529
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:17,760
in co-op as well, computer science is your more 
traditional computing degree. There's a few sample  

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00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:22,160
courses listed there, uh there are more math 
courses that are required, uh when compared to  

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00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:27,120
software engineering. But in your upper years, 
there's fewer required courses with computer  

532
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,920
science, which means there's more freedom to take 
the electives that really interest you. So you can  

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00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:36,520
tailor your degree to match your interests. In 
software engineering, there's fewer math courses  

534
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,000
that you're required to take, and still some of 
the traditional computer science aspects, but more  

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00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,680
of a focus on software design and development. 
Remember if your area of emphasis that you  

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00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:51,320
select is data science, then just know you will be 
taking a few extra math courses as part of those  

537
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:56,400
requirements though. Every year you take a course 
called software design, and it could be looking  

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00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,400
at Legacy systems, or best practices for code 
development. And in software engineering, there  

539
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:07,200
is a real focus on group work and collaboration, 
and your taught project management methodologies  

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00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:12,920
as well within your teams. And now I'd like to 
introduce you to our computing student, Sara.  

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00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,480
So if you'd like to join me on screen now, and 
just let us know a bit about where you're from,  

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00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:22,800
and uh what you're studying, and what drew you 
to pursue computing at Guelph. Hi everyone,  

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00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:28,200
so again my name is Sara, and I'm in my fifth year 
um here at the University of Guelph. My major is  

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software engineering, and I also have a minor 
in project management. Um I was actually born  

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in Jordan and was raised there for my younger 
years, and then I moved here to Mississuaga for  

546
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:42,800
the past few years. Um like I mentioned earlier, 
Mississuaga is not too far away from Guelph,  

547
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so I do commute back and forth, which I can touch 
on later if anyone has any questions. I guess my G  

548
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reason why would be when I was in grade 12, which 
a lot of you are probably in that position right  

549
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:58,400
now, that was actually the year that Covid hit, 
so that was 2020. And pretty much everything went  

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to shutdown mode, and I was going through and 
scrambling like which university am I going to  

551
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:08,280
go to, how am I going to see how universities are 
because you go there and they're all empty right.  

552
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:13,800
All the universities were shut down. However, my 
brother was in alumni um so he graduated the year  

553
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:19,400
before um I entered grade 12, and he was telling 
me all about Guelph and he was "like trust me,  

554
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:25,680
not only is the food the number one food," which 
Purvi has spoke on earlier, "but it's a beautiful  

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00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:31,760
campus that gives you a sense of community" and 
that's both just the campus itself, but also the  

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people there. You genuinely feel like you'll find 
your people and that you'll kind of always feel  

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like you belong. So I never really felt like I 
was like you know stood out like a sore thumb in  

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any terrible way. I never really felt like "oh I 
don't belong here". From the get go that was kind  

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of like this is what's really important to me as I 
want to be able to feel supported by my community,  

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00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:56,480
by my peers, by my professors. And honestly when 
going through all the options, I just really felt  

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00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:01,360
like the University of Guelph, stood out to 
me the most under those categories, so I went  

562
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:06,440
ahead and I took the risk. I listened to my older 
brother's advice and I never looked back since.  

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I've been here for the past five years, um I've 
participated in a lot of these types of events  

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because I truly believe that coming from a student 
telling you that this is the type of campus that  

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00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:23,440
you're going to get both your academic support on, 
but also build long and lasting uh friendships,  

566
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:28,440
and being able to network, and also being able 
to communicate one-on-one with your professors,  

567
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,920
you'll never really feel like a number here is 
what I'll say. You'll always kind of feel like  

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00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:38,720
you have somewhere further, so that would be my 
G reason why um as to why I chose to study here,  

569
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and continue to study here. I always love 
hearing that story, that's great, thanks  

570
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:50,760
so much for sharing. Um and Sara, as a computing 
co-op student, you know that's a big part of um  

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00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:55,160
why students want to study that here you, and as 
a senior student you've done several work terms,  

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00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,480
so can you share one of your experiences, 
and what you learned at a company that you  

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00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:04,440
worked at? Yeah so I worked um at four different 
companies, or sorry three different companies,  

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throughout all my five terms. I just wrapped up my 
last one, but by far one of my more favourite ones  

575
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:14,160
would be one at a small uh tech startup called 
Tulip Retail. And just a quick overview, Tulip  

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Retail does the POS systems for a lot of more uh 
luxury brands. And the reason why I specifically  

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choose this one to talk about is because this 
was my first software engineering type role,  

578
00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:31,400
um and I was thrown right in there, and I was, 
uh believe it or not, literally participating in  

579
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:37,520
conversations with uh companies like Coach, Dolce 
and Gabana, all of these really really big names,  

580
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:44,920
and I remember being sent a meeting invite to talk 
to the Dolce and Gabana to develop our technical  

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00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,280
requirements so we can build the POS system out 
for them. And I was literally sitting in that  

582
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:53,760
call, and I was like "oh my gosh" like this is 
crazy, like I'm actually involving myself. I'm,  

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my want to participate is there and I'm being 
heard, and I built out the POS system that I  

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00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,280
actually see in stores today. So when you go into 
Dolve and Gabana, and they take out their little  

585
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:07,800
iPad and they pull out the POS system for their 
retails, I actually contributed to the software  

586
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:12,320
there. So I always think that's such a cool 
piece to know that the co-op experiences at  

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00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:17,480
Guelph really let you go in there, and just dive 
full deeply into what it is you want to study,  

588
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,320
what you want to learn, and what you want to 
pursue, and you'll see meaningful impacts that  

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you have on your work. So that's something that 
I always can carry at the back of my mind. I'll  

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pass the store be like "hey I did their POS system 
there," so it's just really nice to see that your  

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work is being valued here. For sure, that sounds 
so interesting. Um and as a computing students,  

592
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,280
what are some programming languages you learn, 
and did you need any prior coding or programming  

593
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experience when you started. So you need 
absolutely zero programming experience when you  

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00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:49,760
start. Going into your first year the professors 
are all under the assumption, whether it's true  

595
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:55,400
or not, that no one knows anything about code and 
they'll start you off from scratch. So that was,  

596
00:53:55,400 --> 00:54:00,200
I had previous ones only because I took a grade 
11 and grade 12 ComSci course, but even then,  

597
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,080
going into my first year, a lot of it was 
just review. And I had a few peers and a few  

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00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,640
friends who've never touched code before and 
they were able to pick it up really quickly  

599
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:11,240
because of that underlying assumption that 
all the professors have. So it's a really,  

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really fair playing field. In your earlier years 
in your studies, you'll uh focus a lot on C,  

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00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,400
so that's the programming language. And then on 
those software design courses that Purvi touched  

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00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:26,360
on for the software engineering students, you'll 
start picking up Python in those courses, and um  

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00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,200
kind of differ away from that mainstream. And 
then as you go into your middle and final years,  

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00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:35,280
you'll start learning more about Java, and then 
you'll learn more backend programming languages  

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as well. You'll pick up SQL for databases. So 
the main programming language I would say is C,  

606
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:45,320
and then as you go and evolve throughout your 
degree, it becomes more flexible, especially  

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00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:50,200
with your projects. So my senior course right now 
is a capstone project, and the language that you  

608
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:54,440
uh complete this project in is completely up to 
you. So we'll start off with C, like I mentioned,  

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00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,880
then work your way through Python, and then 
go through Java oriented, so it's flexible

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00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:06,240
throughout. Good to know you get exposure to 
a couple different uh languages there. Um you  

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00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:10,200
touched on, and I touched on, that software 
engineering students do have to take an annual  

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00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:14,520
course on software design. So can you share an 
example of a design project or what what was  

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00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:19,000
the undertaking like in one of those courses? 
Yeah I'll speak on my second design course.  

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00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,120
So like I mentioned earlier, I was admitted to 
the Guelph or the University of Guelph, sorry,  

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00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:28,200
during Covid years. So a lot of the covid 
data was was really, really flushed out,  

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00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,960
and there was a lot of it going on at that time. 
And so during this course, we actually had the  

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opportunity to work with our group members, 
so we were in groups about four or five,  

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00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,400
and pretty much have an open-ended project 
using the CSV files, so those are just data  

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files from the uh Ontario government website, 
to answer any type of inquiry that we'd like.  

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So the question that my group chose was to see if 
there was a correlation between school closures  

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and Covid-19 numbers throughout different 
districts. So we were able to pull in the  

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from these CSV files from the government site, and 
this was all done in Python, by the way, the way  

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we approached it. And then we were able to analyze 
the data regarding school closures, um versus the  

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data of case counts for those same time periods 
compare them, and then output them in graph  

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00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:16,800
formats and visuals. So that one was really cool 
because I've never really took the time to A) work  

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with a group in a software setting, but also B) 
seeing how we can use tech and software to answer  

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00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:28,080
these real world applicable questions. I know a 
lot of us as students were a little frustrated  

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with the school closure, some of us may have 
liked it, some of us maybe not, but it was really  

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00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:36,160
cool to actually see hey schools closing down 
actually reduce our Covid numbers in these areas,  

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00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:40,400
so it was really cool to see a practical example, 
and also just seeing it from scratch that you

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built. Definitely. Thanks so much for sharing 
that, Sara. Um and I'll move on now, but again,  

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00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:54,400
if anyone has any student questions for Sara, 
please put those in the chat. So here's a quick  

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00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,360
look at first year courses that you can take in 
your computing degree. So if anybody's interested  

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00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,000
in what that looks like, I'll leave that up 
for a few seconds, feel free to screenshot  

635
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,640
that or have a look. But the top half is 
if you're interested in computer science,  

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00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,000
and the bottom half of the slide is if you're 
interested in software engineering. And where  

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00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:16,240
it says AOE, that would be your area of emphasis 
from those four um themes that we showed a little

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00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:24,840
earlier. Okay and certainly not an exhaustive 
list of careers, but you will recognize some of  

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00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,720
the logos of the bigger companies that our 
students have worked at. Right like Apple,  

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00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,360
Microsoft, Tesla. But remember 
there's tons of opportunities,  

641
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:37,320
more realistically at small and midsize 
companies, perhaps in non-tech related fields,  

642
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:41,120
that could really open up your skill set 
when you work at, say an insurance firm or  

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00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:46,520
a smaller cybersecurity company, or in the 
retail space as well. Something like D2L,  

644
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:51,240
stands for Desire to Learn, uh they provide 
software and support to academic institutions  

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00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:55,040
and we use their products here at the University 
of Guelph. So they're a really good example of  

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where students have been able to successfully 
land jobs because they've already used their

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00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:06,360
products. Okay and with that we'll move on to 
the last subject area, which is mathematics.  

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00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,320
Um so we've had our Mathematical Science major 
as part of the Bachelor of Science degree for  

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00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:15,240
many years. We now have a specific standalone 
Bachelor of Mathematics degree. Um that's been  

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00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,160
a very welcome change and has created a lot of 
interest and applications into this program,  

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00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:24,520
and I will share why. Okay so this program 
is really unique because it gives students a  

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00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:28,920
chance to study math but also choose what other 
types of courses you would want as part of your  

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00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:34,800
degree. Many students love math but don't enjoy uh 
the sciences, so this degree was created so that,  

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similar to computing, students can use their 
electives to complement uh math with other subject  

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00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:45,360
areas and not be required to have to have high 
school science courses for admission. You have the  

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00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:50,560
option to further take your mathematical science 
major and choose an area of emphasis if you wanted  

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00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:56,400
in either mathematics or statistics. After your 
four years, you have a set of valuable skills  

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like quantitative analysis, modeling, critical 
thinking, and problem solving, and those can  

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be applied to absolutely every field. If you're 
not sure what modeling, is mathematical modeling,  

660
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:11,200
it's a central technique that we use with many 
services that we all, you know, use in our daily  

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lives, like weather forecasting, disease spread 
and prediction, or consumer behaviour analysis,  

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00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:21,880
just to name a few. In our library on campus, 
we have an area called the Science Commons,  

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in which that provides dedicated academic 
support to students that are in math, chemistry,  

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00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:31,680
and physics subjects. So you can visit there and 
then have teaching assistance in those departments  

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00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:36,720
help you understand any challenging concepts 
you may have encountered. Our friendly math  

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00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:41,200
and stats professors are approachable and really 
lean into creating a community for their students  

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00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:45,120
that offers a personable approach to education. 
And that's something that I've always valued  

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00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,640
about Guelph, is how much peer helping there is 
and student support services that are on campus  

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to help you transition to a new learning style. 
Some of the roles that our mathematical science  

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00:59:55,640 --> 01:00:00,360
graduates have succeeded in are shared on screen. 
So we've had our grads work at medical tech and  

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01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:05,760
pharma companies like Fortrea in the US, Price 
Waterhouse Cooper's firm in data management and  

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01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:10,640
analytics, or they can work at global universities 
around the world and healthcare departments or uh  

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01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:16,320
pursue teaching among other options. a very 
memorable grad that I had heard of was Emily,  

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01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:22,080
who worked for ION Geophysical in Scotland, and 
she helped develop and test a software that was  

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01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:26,880
used on earthquake detection vessels. So she would 
be able to tell the crew where to position the  

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01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:31,840
ship to detect the behavior of the currents in 
the water as they relate to earthquake activity.  

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That takes enormous detail and precision, and I 
thought it was a really interesting application  

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of her mathematical science degree. And this 
is what most first year students experience as  

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part of their recommended sequence of study, 
so I'll also leave that up for a second for

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01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:57,640
you. Okay and Vinay, if you'd like to come on 
screen now, uh you're a current math student  

681
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:02,200
and just chat us through um you know how did you 
hear about uh math at Guelph, and what led you  

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01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:07,760
to pursue the study of it. Um yeah, thank you 
so much. Uh as as Purvi mentioned, my name is  

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Vinay. Um I actually used to be a former employee 
of the University of Guelph uh where I had a past  

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01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:21,880
career in biological and chemical lab testing. 
And so summer, and I so I've been in Guelph for  

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01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:29,040
quite some time now, since I'd say 2019, 2018. And 
during my time I realized I started to like data  

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01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:35,240
and statistics more, and so it was for me it was 
a natural transition to go back to school to sort  

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01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:42,160
of pursue uh a mathematical science degree. And 
so and that's why that was my G reason why why I  

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01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:47,600
picked Guelph because I was here, I already worked 
here for for a couple years, I knew what the  

689
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:56,200
culture is here like, the food here is amazing, if 
no one has mentioned it yet. Um and yeah so I love  

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01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:02,560
um the statistics of things, and I love how 
um we interact with so much data all around,  

691
01:02:02,560 --> 01:02:09,400
and the thing that excites me about my degree 
and my future is that I get to tell stories,  

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01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:19,320
or discover stories and insights the data 
around us um yeah. Awesome. Now our Bachelor of  

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01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:23,480
Mathematics program is not available in co-op, but 
there's still plenty of ways to get summer jobs  

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01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:27,760
and build up your professional network. Can you 
let us know some of the your internships and where  

695
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:34,800
you completed them? Yeah totally, so it is true uh 
the BMath program as it stands does not have uh a  

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01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:40,000
co-op program, but that does not limit you from 
applying for internships by any means Um there  

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01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:44,760
are a lot of resources on campus, like the Math 
and Stats Club and the department, the professors,  

698
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:49,280
the academic services that helped you sort of get 
those internships. Uh some of the cool ones that  

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01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:56,480
I've had are research internships working with a 
few different professors, where I build software  

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01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:03,640
for detecting epidemics within Guelph. Uh another 
cool internship that I had done was I worked for a  

701
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:10,320
gaming company called Electronic Arts, where I got 
to work with, um sort of play tasting play testing  

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01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:18,840
studies, uh I worked on FIFA, Apex Legends, um 
Sims, uh and um college football. So those are  

703
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:22,800
some of the things uh that, so those are some 
of the companies that I've worked for. Um I've  

704
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:28,600
also worked as a consultant for, as a freelance 
data analyst where I work for smaller companies,  

705
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:36,720
where I would sort of help out with their data 
and such, um yeah so that's about it. Awesome,  

706
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:40,360
uh and as an upper student you're also a key 
part of student leadership in the Math and  

707
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:44,160
Stats Department because you're the Math 
and Stats student club President. So what  

708
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:48,760
is being part of that club like, and how might 
future students get involved. Oh yeah totally,  

709
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:54,640
it's um the yeah the Math and Stats Club, 
the undergraduate Math and Stats Club uh is a  

710
01:03:56,000 --> 01:04:01,920
it's a very cool initiative, uh driven by the 
department. So it's uh I guess it's leadership is  

711
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:06,880
technically the department, but the students sort 
of run it including myself, and uh my teammates.  

712
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:12,440
Um I think it's very cool because it it gives an 
opportunities for the students in the program to  

713
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:18,640
sort of interact with other students, um but more 
than that, we run so many different workshops,  

714
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:24,160
and so many different academic events, but not 
just limited to academic events, we also have  

715
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:31,080
like these fun cool ones. And so so forth um uh 
for example uh day after tomorrow we're going  

716
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:36,840
out to University of Waterloo to uh to take some 
of the students from uh from Guelph, and we're  

717
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:40,920
presenting some of the research work that we've 
done at the University of Waterloo, so that's  

718
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:47,440
something we've done, that's something we're doing 
this year. But similarly we run uh these large  

719
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:55,640
scale uh trivia events and um these fun game 
shows that are math and stat related as well.

720
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:01,840
Perfect, thanks so much for sharing your 
perspectives, Vinay. So I'll circle back  

721
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:06,560
to you shortly at the end, uh so if anyone has any 
questions about uh math or the student experience  

722
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:14,360
as a math student for Vinay, please enter those 
in now. Perfect, thank you. Thank you. Okay and  

723
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,800
with that we've completed the academic part of 
the presentation, so we'll just spend the last  

724
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:21,960
few minutes talking about your next steps as 
an applicant. and reviewing any questions that  

725
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:27,480
are um that we can answer as a group for our from 
our current students. So here are some dates that  

726
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,760
might be useful to know if you're applying this 
year. Uh for all applicants remember that June  

727
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:38,200
2nd is the last date to accept your admission 
uh offer. Uh please use the QR code on the  

728
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:42,880
bottom left to see a complete list of dates and 
deadlines to help you with your planning. Uh in  

729
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:46,320
case you didn't know, because we do have a few 
out of province applicants and international  

730
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:50,840
students on this call, uh those two groups so 
out of province and international students,  

731
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:55,640
you are guaranteed residence if you submit your 
uh residence application and deposit by June 2nd.

732
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:03,360
And we would love to invite all of you to 
visit us on campus on Sunday, March 23rd,  

733
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:08,640
where we have a university-wide open house. You 
can attend Academic Program sessions, get a campus  

734
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:13,760
and residence tour, check out labs, lecture halls, 
and meet other current students and faculty. We  

735
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:17,640
have another set of open houses happening in May, 
those are exclusively for students that have an  

736
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:22,120
admission offer. So similar format but information 
will be pretty targeted to sort of simulate what  

737
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:26,040
you can expect in first year. And lastly if 
you enjoy connecting with current students  

738
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:30,840
in your program or from your hometown, uh we do 
have some ambassadors on our Unibuddy platform,  

739
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:34,360
so please make a free account, search the 
University of Guelph, and then find some students  

740
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:38,240
to text your questions to, uh about anything to 
do with living and learning at Guelph and they  

741
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:46,360
will respond within 24 hours. Okay so I'll just 
briefly uh kind of look through the Q&A here,  

742
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:51,480
and see if there are some questions that we can um 
answer live for you, so just give me um a minute

743
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,520
here. Okay so

744
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:06,000
um Sara can I call you on screen? Um some 
interest in the process of selecting a minor.  

745
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:10,120
So I know you're a computing student minoring 
in project management. When did you know you  

746
01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:16,160
wanted to add that in, and what was that process 
like? Yeah, for sure. So going into my degree,  

747
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:21,560
in my first year I knew I wanted to pair my major 
with some sort of minor, just to kind of give me  

748
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:27,160
a little bit of um an edge I guess you would say 
compared to my peers when it comes to job applying  

749
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:33,000
and all that stuff. But I also knew that although 
my heart does lie in software and programming, I  

750
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:39,280
love organizing things. And I love kind of taking 
a really, really messy problem and fixing it,  

751
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:45,680
and making it kind of coming a solution out of 
it. So I went through um online, and hopefully  

752
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:50,000
someone can maybe share a link if that's possible, 
there's a list of all the minors that we offer at  

753
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:56,000
the University of Guelph. And um with those lists 
you're able to click any that you'd like, and so I  

754
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:00,240
went through the entire one, I said "heyy, project 
management. I feel like that would complement my  

755
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:04,600
software engineering degree very well" because 
we do have to work with groups a lot of the time,  

756
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:09,400
there's a lot of cross collaboration with teams 
in the real world, so it was just one that kind of  

757
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:14,600
like clicked a lot of and checked a lot of boxes 
for me. So once you click on that on the website,  

758
01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:20,000
you're then um redirected to a list of all the 
courses um that you could possibly take within  

759
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:24,400
your minor in order for it to be declared as 
an official minor. And there's some flexibility  

760
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:29,880
within that so I believe uh you need 10 credits 
for it to be your minor, um Purvi please correct  

761
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:36,440
me if I'm wrong on that. But within 10 credits, 
that's about like a decent chunk of courses,  

762
01:08:36,440 --> 01:08:39,960
um and then within that, I was able to kind of 
go through the list that they provide and I was  

763
01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:43,360
like" hey this sounds like it would be really 
interesting to take, oh this course sounds  

764
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:48,920
really like applicable to what I want to do with 
my life." So it was kind of just a matter of going  

765
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:54,440
through those minors, kind of selecting the few 
that I felt were of interest to me personally,  

766
01:08:54,440 --> 01:08:59,200
and that would pair really well with my major. And 
then after that kind of going through the courses  

767
01:08:59,200 --> 01:09:03,680
that they have in order for it to be declared as 
an official minor and seeing if they're actually  

768
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:07,760
of interest to me. So it's super easy to say "oh 
I want a minor in mathematics", for example, or I  

769
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:11,880
want a minor in project management, but what does 
that actually entail? What courses are you going  

770
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:17,520
to deep dive into in your four or five years here? 
So the University does a really good job online,  

771
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:21,720
kind of giving you what those courses going to 
look like, and offering you some flexibility  

772
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:26,160
between a couple of them. So I knew right from 
the get go that I wanted to do a minor. It was  

773
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:32,280
just the process of actually selecting one and 
committing to it, which was very, very, very easy  

774
01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:37,720
uh to do because of the wealth of knowledge that's 
just readily available for you on the University's

775
01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:46,160
site. For sure, thank you. So yes for anybody 
who's curious about a minor, it's not something  

776
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:50,320
that you have to even declare, but if you were 
interested in doing one or you discover an area  

777
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:53,760
of interest while you're here, you start by 
going to your program counselor once you're  

778
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:58,040
enrolled here and you've taken some classes. Um 
and then they can facilitate the formal paperwork  

779
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:03,200
part by getting that added in. Sara, one more 
question for you. Um in for students that are  

780
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:08,400
struggling between computer science and software 
engineering, do you have any insight or advice  

781
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:12,760
um beyond what we sort of mentioned? You know we 
said computer science is a little more math heavy,  

782
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:18,160
um but is there any other insight, you can kind 
of help uh offer some clarity to some students  

783
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:23,760
who are still you know ideating between the 
two? For sure. So uh this obviously differs  

784
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:28,400
from individual to individual, but what I've 
seen for the past five years is, in my opinion,  

785
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:33,400
if you're someone who likes to work with groups, 
if you like that collaborative part of coding,  

786
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:38,880
if you like kind of looking at more of 
a high-level approach to a solution,  

787
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:42,800
uh software engineering is probably where you 
want to be. And that's just because you're get  

788
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:46,680
you're able to go through those software design 
courses that Purvi and I mentioned earlier,  

789
01:10:46,680 --> 01:10:53,400
which are all group, collaborative courses within 
the software development um path and stream. Um  

790
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:57,640
like she mentioned it's less math heavy, so 
again there's just a lot of emphasis on that  

791
01:10:57,640 --> 01:11:01,920
group collaboration. What are the different roles 
when you're collaborating with a software team?  

792
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:06,200
So there's an agile coach, there's a product 
coach, there's a scrum master. So all of these  

793
01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:11,000
different roles you're kind of digging and diving 
further into them within the software engineering  

794
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:15,080
stream. Whereas maybe if you're not really 
a big fan of going into that collaboration,  

795
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:19,120
you prefer to work by yourself, maybe you 
want to pick up research post-secondary,  

796
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:24,040
things that would you would prefer to go lower 
level on, so more theory-based, more math based,  

797
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:29,640
more individual work, so I always say go to the 
computer science route. You're not uh obligated  

798
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:34,000
to take those five design courses, so you're 
not collaborating a lot so with your peers,  

799
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:38,320
but do not get me wrong, the computer science 
individuals do still have those group projects,  

800
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:43,200
as any degree would. It's just not to the extent 
and depth that those software engineering kids

801
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:52,160
have. Perfect, thanks so much for that. Okay 
another question was, if this webinar will  

802
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:57,840
be recorded, it is being recorded and if you've 
signed up for it register, then um you the link  

803
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:03,920
will be shared with you so you can revisit some of 
this information afterwards. Um how about Peter,  

804
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:08,840
can I call you on now? There seems to be some 
interest from our audience about uh participating  

805
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:15,000
in research. So um I know that you uh had a chance 
to do that here, so how does one get involved,  

806
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:20,000
and can everybody do it, or is there is is 
there an application process for that? Yeah,  

807
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:26,200
yeah, so uh research is um it can be 
pretty difficult to crack into sometimes,  

808
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:31,040
but I think once you get your first position 
um the you know the opportunities keep coming.  

809
01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:36,840
Uh the way I cracked into research was that 
um I volunteered at a professor's laboratory,  

810
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:41,320
where I just kind of just did the groundwork, 
you know, did the dishes, made sure that other  

811
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:45,160
grad students, as well as other undergrads that 
were were conducting research had everything they  

812
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:50,760
needed. Um and this was just, I just shot out a 
bunch of emails to different profs I was pretty  

813
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:56,200
interested in working with. Um and after I did 
my volunteering, I did co-op, where I was able  

814
01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:03,320
to hone some research techniques. Um and then 
this experience kind of put a lot on my resume,  

815
01:13:03,320 --> 01:13:09,280
and then I was able to apply for um something 
called a URS or USRA, which are summer research  

816
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:14,920
positions that Guelph offers for most of its 
departments and labs. Um and then a professor  

817
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:19,480
chose me, gave me an opportunity to work in 
lab, and then after that research opportunity,  

818
01:13:19,480 --> 01:13:25,600
I was able to get into the lab um that I 
currently work for doing my master's degree. So  

819
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:31,200
it's really all about making the first move. 
Um a professor will never, well it's very rare,  

820
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:37,200
but it's very rare for them to come out and uh 
give you the opportunity. So research is really  

821
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:41,720
what you invest in it, is what you get back. So 
you need to just be knocking on everyone's door

822
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:51,160
yeah. One more question for you, Peter. I 
guess somebody's wondering, um was there a  

823
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:55,360
lot of time between your undergrad and master's, 
in terms of how did you find that transition,  

824
01:13:55,360 --> 01:14:01,320
or what was it like post-graduation after 
undergrad? Yeah so when I was graduating,  

825
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:07,360
um I was pretty torn on whether I want to take 
that uh gap year kind, of um maybe work full-time  

826
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:13,360
see what that's like. Um but I realized 
that I want for what I wanted to pursue,  

827
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:19,720
I needed to do um postgrad education. So I 
just leaped right into it. I I was looking  

828
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:25,640
at the job market for what I was trained for, 
and right now it's it's protein biochemistry,  

829
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:30,960
and if you're in any type of pharmaceutical field 
right now, it's it's booming. Um so this program  

830
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:36,960
definitely got me prepared for the workforce, 
but for what I wanted to do, I knew I needed to  

831
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:42,120
further educate myself. So I went right into my 
master's degree and I couldn't be really happier  

832
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:47,480
with what I chose to do. Um it's been awesome, 
um I've been you know in the lab all the time.  

833
01:14:47,480 --> 01:14:55,000
I really enjoy it and I'm with a great group of 
labmates, I guess, that I can always depend on.

834
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:03,080
Awesome, thanks. Let's do one more question, in 
just in the spirit of time, since we're going  

835
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,920
over we're going to wrap up right after that. If 
you're still expecting, if you've got a question  

836
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:10,640
in the in the Q&A, and you're still expecting an 
answer, just don't drop off the ,call even though  

837
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:14,320
we wrap up. Uh the staff members on the call 
will take a moment to just type out an answer  

838
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:19,440
to you if we weren't able to get to it live. 
Um but if we did one more question, um Karen,  

839
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:25,320
can I bring you on screen? Um and I'll ask you two 
questions. One would be non-academic, so what was  

840
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:33,640
living in residence like? Yeah, so I lived in 
South uh Residence in Prairie Hall. And so I'm  

841
01:15:33,640 --> 01:15:39,200
a pretty introverted person, and so I had applied 
to be in all single rooms, uh but I was put into  

842
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:44,880
a triple room which initially wasn't my favorite 
thing in the world. Um it ended up working out  

843
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:49,120
very well my two roommates have become two of my 
closest friends. I hang out with them all the time  

844
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:55,360
now and I'm in third year, so two years later. 
Um and then residence itself I really enjoy,  

845
01:15:55,360 --> 01:16:02,240
being on campus was really convenient, having 
uh food available, uh laundry very close,  

846
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:05,960
little things like that that made the 
transition from living at home to coming  

847
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:11,880
to school um a lot easier. And I definitely 
uh definitely enjoyed living in residence for

848
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:26,160
sure. Thank you, and then uh if I can just ask you 
one um question about your first year. So um when  

849
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:30,360
you're taking a variety of courses, somebody's 
asking, like physics and you know math and  

850
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:34,800
chemistry, um what is it like if for in first 
year university, doing those courses were they  

851
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:38,560
challenging, were they pretty fundamental, was it 
easy to jump from the high school level into first  

852
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:47,520
year do you do you recall? Um definitely it lays 
out a fundamental concepts for each, like biology,  

853
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:52,600
physics, chemistry, math. And it really depends 
on where you're coming from from high school. So  

854
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:59,360
I had friends who um absolutely breezed through 
chemistry, and found it complete review from high  

855
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:04,360
school. And I had friends who came from high 
school and hadn't covered um the topics that  

856
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:10,400
we were talking about yet. But the good thing 
was that they did uh cover all of those topics  

857
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:15,720
and let you kind of, even if you hadn't covered 
them in high school, you had a good opportunity  

858
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:23,000
to learn them um in first year. It is a big 
jump in the sense of content, um and the speed  

859
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:29,560
of which you receive content. It's a lot faster 
paced um and so it it can be a bit of a jump,  

860
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:36,360
you have to kind of really get on time management, 
get on your Google calendars, and sort out um what  

861
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:41,160
your study time is, when assignments are due, and 
things like that because it is pretty easy to fall  

862
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:46,320
behind. But if you stay on top of it and have a 
group of friends that you're able to study with,  

863
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:51,680
discuss problems with, um it it isn't 
too difficult um and it's definitely

864
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:58,760
possible. Awesome, thanks so much for 
that. So just again in the spirit of time,  

865
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:03,120
um we'll just wrap up, and just uh introduce you 
to some ways you can still stay in touch with us,  

866
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:07,160
in case you have questions that occur to you 
after this uh information session. So please  

867
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:13,640
stay in touch with us at cepsinfo@uoguelph.ca. Um 
and again, if you've got any unanswered questions  

868
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,920
in the chat that we couldn't answer live, we 
will stick around to type out an answer to you,  

869
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:21,080
so don't log off just yet. But for everybody 
else we hope you all found the STEM session  

870
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:25,080
really helpful, and maybe it introduced you 
to something that you uh didn't know before.  

871
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:28,400
So please stay in touch with us through any 
of the means on screen. Um and we hope you  

872
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:32,480
can join us for that open house on Sunday, 
March 23rd to everybody who's able to come  

873
01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:37,440
to the University of Guelph to see everything 
that we've talked about uh come to life. So  

874
01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:41,400
with tha,t the webinar is done. We'll be turning 
our cameras off, just sticking around to answer  

875
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:45,880
some uh questions still in the Q&A, but thank 
you all so much for joining us we hope you're  

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just as excited as us to have you attend the 
University of Guelph in September. Good luck  

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to everybody who's applied, and congrats to those 
of you with an offer, and we'll say bye for now.