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Hello, I'm Dr Brian Caputo, President of College of DuPage.
I want to welcome you to our first ever STEM week.
The importance of education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
otherwise known as STEM cannot be emphasized enough.
students who pursue these fields gain the skills to understand and solve the
Complex challenges of our world.
Just think about your participation tonight.
The technology you are using was created
by people who pursued a STEM related career.
What was once considered science fiction, is now a reality.
And it will take STEM skills to turn today's dreams into tomorrow's discoveries
College of DuPage is committed to STEM education.
In 2019, COD led all local institutions
of higher education in STEM degree and certificate completion.
This fact may surprise some people
who would not consider a community college when selecting a school for a
STEM related major.
But I assure you that COD is an excellent place
to build skills in science and technology.
This week you will hear from our faculty,
learn more about exciting career options
and uncover the physics of baseball
during a live webinar with Alan Nathan, Professor Emeritus of Physics
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
We are excited to provide you with these
opportunities during our inaugural STEM week.
Enjoy learning more about these fields and how College of DuPage
provides the best foundation in STEM education.
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Hello there I'm Professor Steve Santello come on in.
Welcome to my crib.
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I want to show you guys first these,
these development stations, their collaboration stations
that up to four students work on at a time.
They, they design projects here, they develop the projects here.
This is one of the projects that that a group of four students
developed in about three months.
It's a top-down, bullet hell game.
I'm terrible at this game, it's, it's incredibly difficult
but it's playable on, on all sorts of different controllers.
We of course also have all the latest and greatest game consoles.
We have Playstation 4, we have Xbox One, we have a Nintendo Switch.
We're definitely going to be getting a lot of the new systems
when they're coming out.
And they use these systems like this to do research
and to play test games that have already been released.
But we also have development kits
for Sony Playstation and Switch
so students can develop on those too.
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So this is a first person shooter.
This is really meant for a keyboard and mouse
and it's a really high- octane shooter.
It's, it's again another great game that was
developed by a small team of students
in, in just you know, a couple months,
which is, which is awesome and fantastic.
Games like this we we end up using Unreal Engine, which I'll show
you guys later on when we start walking
to see some of these other machines as well.
This is a really cool project. This is a VR game
that was developed in Unreal within, within a
couple months as well.
A group of four students not only developed this
but won the Illinois State and National Competition at Skills USA.
And you can play this on VR, you know,
you can just put this headset on here, use motion controls here
and it's a, it's a you know, again, great game.
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As opposed to some of these 3D games
we also do some 2D games too.
And so this is one of these, these awesome 2D games
where you're a monkey flying in a banana
shooting a bunch of things which is, which is fantastic!
And this game too can can be played
on all sorts of different controls as well.
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Back here, we actually have a bunch of stations
that, that game development students can work on simultaneously.
And each one of these stations
have, have dual monitors on them.
So students can, can work in multiple pieces of software
as they want or as many pieces of software as they want.
We can actually hold up to 16 game development students at once.
And all those game development students
can be working on different projects at once or
even the same projects at once.
And you know, here on these dual monitors displayed we have
Unreal Engine that is made by Epic Games.
College of DuPage is actually a partner of Epic Games
which is really cool and we use Unreal Engine to, to actually develop
most of our game content -
we can do 2D games, we can do 3D games, we can do VR with it,
we can do AR with it, augmented reality which is something
that we hadn't seen in this classroom yet
but we're working on that as well.
We've, we also have other pieces of software like Substance Painter
that you guys can see here as well
where students can use drawing tablets to,
to do detailed sculpts of, of their models that they
would create in 3D StudioMax or Maya
and then continue to paint some really awesome
materials onto those, onto those models as well.
As part of these stations too, we actually do in fact
have these, these game pads here
so we have some Xbox controllers here as well so
students can practice developing games, not only for keyboard and mouse
but for game pads as well.
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Alright, I've invited you to my lab.
I've shown you around, I've showed you game projects,
I showed you hardware, I showed you software.
I've got to get back to work.
You guys got to go. See you later.
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Speaking of VR, we are currently building an
augmented reality/ virtual reality lab
on the 3rd floor of the BIC.
So as opposed to this lab,
that can only house a couple of VR units at once,
we can actually house up to 10 VR units in that lab.
And multiple development teams can work on
10 different VR games all at once,
which is awesome, it's fantastic.
On top of that, we can also test
all sorts of different VR products and AR products that
are not only developed by our students,
but also exist out in the real world
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Engineering is all around us. Everyday, everywhere we go we
can see and touch something that has been designed by an engineer.
But what does it mean to study engineering?
An engineering student studies computers and programming.
An engineering student studies science and physics, math
and learns to understand calculus.
And most of all, an engineering student is curious about shaping the world.
if you're one of these people, the engineering program at
College of DuPage is waiting for you.
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-- The huge advantages of COD's Engineering Program
is we have all the courses that you need, and it's a better experience.
The other thing is that all the professors here came here because
they love to teach.
-- We have a whole bunch of different types of engineering,
mechanical, civil and electrical which are the big three.
But we also do industrial engineering, biomedical engineering,
and chemical engineering.
-- We are able to offer pretty much all
of the freshman and sophomore coursework that any major university would offer.
Students should expect to get a very rigorous and well-founded education
that will help prepare them to succeed
-- Students studying engineering at College of DuPage
sharpen the skills they'll need to be successful
in transferring and completing a bachelor's degree
in their chosen area of study.
Instructors are dedicated to providing resources
and making sure each student understands course material.
College of DuPage provides a hands-on hands-on approach
to studying course material and also encourages students
to pursue various clubs and internships available within a student's major.
There are several opportunities for any student to get involved.
in and out of the classroom.
Special transfer programs are also available.
for engineering students at College of DuPage
guaranteeing admission to select universities
upon completing the necessary COD courses
and meeting GPA requirements
Engineering is everywhere.
Intelligent and innovative people design and create
extraordinary things every day in this dynamic and growing field.
Engineer your future. Get started at College of DuPage.