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Message from Dean Egerstedt
Here at the Samueli School of Engineering, what happens outside the classroom matters almost as much as what happens inside. Sure, our students must take (and hopefully ace) their thermodynamics and machine learning classes. But all research shows that students who participate in cohort-based experiences not only do better academically and are more likely to finish their degrees, but they also have more fun and feel better overall. The ambition is to have all of our students be part of some cohort-based activity on campus, such as student clubs and project teams, makerspaces, undergraduate research, industrial practicum rotations, or design and entrepreneurship competitions. We recently launched the Office for Experiential Learning (https://oel.eng.uci.edu/) to formalize this ambition and to give it some structure (and budget), and the official launch celebration takes place this month, on Feb. 25, 2025. We invite you to register here.
Best,
Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D.
Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering
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