Engaging experience and opportunity to connect with experts

 "We hoped that these 'Meet the Engineer' videos would continue to provide students with an engaging experience and opportunity to connect with experts that would inspire their thinking about STEM and ideas for student-driven projects," Buggs said.

A group of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering students who had previously volunteered with SABES were enthusiastic about the idea.

"The main goal in creating these videos was to introduce myself to the kids, despite not being able to interact with them in person," said Arlene Chiu, an ECE graduate student. "It was also a chance to teach the kids about the engineering process, which is something they learn as a part of the SABES curriculum, and show them that the engineering process is actually used in real life."

Chiu is a member of Associate Professor Susanna Thon's NanoEnergy Laboratory. Her fellow ECE labmates—graduate students Sreyas Chintapalli and Lulin Li, as well as fourth-year undergraduate Eric Rong—joined Chiu in creating videos. Matt difference between computer science and computer engineering, a member of the Cellular, Molecular, Developmental Biology PhD Program, also made one.