Testimonials from the Mentors

Generally, industrial engineering is parallel to optimizing complex and integrated systems and increasing their efficiencies across various industries. From my perspective, studying industrial engineering is much more than this. By pursuing this major, I was able to expand my toolkit of skills by enhancing both my conceptual and soft skills.

 

From one side, I was able to strengthen my analytical and structural skills when working on challenging projects. For example, in my final year project, I am making use of my knowledge in supply chain management, quality control and operations research to help a hydroponic farming company in Lebanon improve its operations.

 

From another side, I enriched my communication skills during various projects. For instance, in my entrepreneurship course, I leveraged on my skills when presenting a pitch about a startup idea in front of my class.

 

From my perspective, the most fulfilling aspect of studying industrial engineering is getting to explore the intersection between engineering and business and identifying opportunities of improvement in systems.

Mechanical engineering is one of the most diverse and versatile engineering fields. It’s a branch of engineering that deals with almost every aspect of modern life; it builds among concepts from engineering mathematics and physics, to material science or material engineering, to design, analysis, manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems, to nanotechnology and robotics. While pursuing your degree and more importantly in your work life later on, you might face obstacles and sometimes even fail. But then engineering is also about resilience and finding solutions under all circumstances, and you will learn to never give up and instead look at failure as “the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

As a female in the mechanical engineering field, you will have to get used to being a serious minority, as this is still considered a male-dominated major. Usually, a common concern for students when selecting their major is the potential job market and the projected income bracket. Whereas, in my experience, choosing the path of mechanical engineering was a choice to follow my passion. Due to women choosing to defy the gender imbalances and following a career path they love, they tend to excel: “Find something that you love to do, and you will not work a day in your life.”

Personally, as a mother, I subconsciously spread engineering in my children’s lives. Naturally children are curious and have an innate desire to seek answers, and I try to nourish that spirit by exploring engineering, math, technology, and scientific concepts with them in a fun, hands-on way from which they can learn and grow.

Chemical engineering is a multidisciplinary field in which you cover a variety of courses ranging from thermodynamics to fluids, to heat and mass transfer, to material engineering, to process design and control, along with instrumentation, environmental management, reactor engineering, programing, safety and risk management and many more. By pursuing this major, you get exposed after graduation to various opportunities in different industries such as pharmaceuticals and biomedicine, petroleum and crude oil refining, food industry, water treatment, energy, environmental and sustainability, material, etc.

Aside from being multi-disciplinary and offering a variety of courses, the chemical engineering program at AUB teaches you much more than this. Throughout your undergraduate years in this program, you will experience a lot of teamwork, lab work, research and many more, which will help you develop plenty of skills such as analytical skills, communication skills, problem solving skills and teamwork skills.

From my perspective, the most fulfilling aspect of studying chemical engineering is getting the chance to explore a piece of everything, the skills and self-development it helps you achieve, and most importantly, the intersection of engineering and innovation with sustainability for a greener tomorrow.

Civil Engineering is generally mentioned when one talks about the construction of structures. However, this discipline hides much more than just that.

Look around you and you will find at least one thing a civil engineer did for you: Whether it is the water you drink or the home you live in, the roads you commute on or the waste you generate, they all have a civil engineer behind them.

Before enrolling in civil engineering, I did not know all of that, instead I discovered every aspect of this major throughout my education and I was fascinated each time I learned more about it.

As a civil engineering student, you will be certainly learning a lot about each of the sub-disciplines it comprises. But not just that, you will also learn how to communicate your ideas in an effective manner, how to work in teams and how to present your work professionally.

As a female in civil engineering, you might still find yourself surrounded by men. However, that does not stop you from shining.

Since civil engineering is the most practical engineering discipline, it “builds” the lives of civilizations (hence its name) and millions of people, you get to make a bigger impact.

As a  civil engineer, you will have to think about people first, care about them and work for them. Because, at least for me, civil engineering is all about serving your community, making it better and shaping its future.

As a civil engineer, you will change the lives of others by “building” it. As a civil engineer, you will make history.

The defining wonders of today’s age are computation and electricity. Millions of bulbs lighting up cities at night, real time radio communications across continents, the ability to perform big data computations in less than a minute – computation and electricity have transformed all of humanity in a few increasingly hectic generations.

 

In this fast-moving age, electrical and computer engineering (ECE) is a window to the world of diverse disciplines. Electrical and computer engineering is comparatively one of the newer rapidly evolving branches of engineering that have revolutionized the tech industry. The ECE program at AUB is a homogeneous mixture of computer science, electronics and microelectronics, communication systems, control systems, as well as hardware and software systems design. This lucrative field also has many intersections with other majors such as biology, physics, mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence, etc.

 

As a polymath, I chose computer engineering at AUB because the program promotes excellence in undergraduate liberal education, research, and service to the profession, but most importantly, it easily grounded my diverse interests and gave me the opportunity to develop practical skills in that sphere.

So, being fast paced and a demanding discipline, ECE is very fascinating, especially for underrepresented female groups. The major touches almost every aspect of the world you can imagine, and with such a degree, you will be one step closer to changing the world, bit by bit.