falk: may be able to shuffle that money around
jay: thanks to kevin, agree. another thing neede dis space; i'm mechanical engineering lead of mars river team; when you go on the hopkins website, you see "world-class facilities" but we are in a closet; think this is contradictory to what hopkins claims, and what we are; very destructive since you can't work together in a closet; we're basically working on top of our rover…in your perspective, what are you doing to work toward those world-class facilities advertised
falk: has been something we've been working on for a long time; 2 months ago finally got approval from board of trustees to build; behind where dsai construction, there is a brick building which was formerly matsci? now working on renovating that building (~20ksqft) would be phase 2 of that project; whitigin is raising funds for hta project; basically that design phase will ikely go to nxt summer, then get approval from trustees to move into construction; hope is to open doors end of 2030; been working on this for a long time, got request from alumni sardella i think 30M dollars toward this specifically, meanwhile construction costs have been going through the roof
jerry (meche): frankly am a a member of blue jay racing, wanted to talk about preparing us for industry; first time in my 4years i've seen something hopkins sanctioned which is preparing for industry; feels that much of everything we do is preparing us for academia; there is no course in the middle which helps us prepare for a [?] feels the courseload we have is preparing us for high-level theoritcal topics; also want to talk about the new building, wish i could use it, but if i don't want to participate in research, and i don't have a class, no point for me to step into this building; awesome that we have new building, but sucks that we can't use it for student groups; also want to talk about eportfolio; tells a story in a format that no one is ogin to pay attention to; on people's sites, it is so much focused on what you do in school, but people who are really developed and seen for their portfolios are focused on what is outside of school; companies don't care for what is about in school; preparing us for industry/future, but out of touch whth what industry is looking for; using your analogy we're eating broccoli, but feels like we're actually eating green beans; how does the university address those not looking toward academia, i feel this is what is missing the most
falk: many things have een changing within sWSE, i have more epxperience in my department than mechanical engineering; i can bring your suggestions to the meche department, but they don't like to listen to me; i call the daeparmtnet [] because they like to put their hands/fingers on things teling what you can or can't do, but….. in my department, matsci, when i arrived in 12008 was pobably the mos guilty on wha tyou're talkin bout; every student was ina faculty member's lab; no opportunity to do acapstne not in a faculty member's lab; have seen this change over many years; now multiple student teams working with medical practicioners and external companies; i think the transition for our school to be more amenable ot those not seeking academic, used to be 75/25, now 5050; talking to me today great, but talking to people in your department is very important also
i think there wwe're also other things…
[]: eportfolio
falk: one feature is that it is not limited to being about academic pieces; the only thing i control; you have liberty to put anything in the eportfolio, e.g., labs, clubs, employment, blue jay racing, hoping for students to learn how to teach their things in many ways
digication is not perfect, but we chose it because it's ferpa compliant; that's what we had to choose so it doesn't send to ai; you may decide to make a website for yourself somewhere which is fancier; trying to figure out how for students who have not collected deliberately all the things they did for seniors; i think having a place is better than no place at all
falk: quick follow up, this is a platform, but to meche specifically
falk: dr marra
: he's very much on the points i've said
i think if you wrote to him about
astrojays president: have tried ot have these conversations before; about the machine shop; also the basement of wyman park, each club has probably surplus of 250, probably a fire hazard how many people are there saturdays and sundays; academics are great here at hopkins, but we must apply these at clubs
falk: question about space&resources is very much school-issue; you came to the right place, it's taking is far too long to get space for clubs, i am pushing the university as fast as i can; if you go to meche they're probably complaining about space too; i think that sophomore/junior year not having enough work about design applicable to what is outside of academia
: i think maybe like as a group also with meche to have conversation cause they come back to us saying they can't do anything or are trying to; not necessarily that you need to add to curriculum, since our clubs have them; but clubs' voices are going to dead ears;
falk: am happy to continue this conversation, talk to my office, discuss strategy