About

Engineering Welcome Day is an orientation event for roughly 700 incoming engineering freshmen and transfer students, hosted by the Engineering Society at UCLA (ESUC). Students will have the opportunity to learn about UCLA's School of Engineering, meet fellow engineering students, and hear from engineering faculty. Students will also have the opportunity to learn about the 40+ student organizations in attendance.

Engineering Welcome Day (EWD) will be hosted online on September 20th, 2020. The event will be split into two sessions to accommodate different time zones. Session 1 will be 9:00am - 12:00pm (PDT) and Session 2 will be 6:00pm - 9:00pm (PDT). Both sections are identical - plan to only attend one.

Note: This year, EWD is using a platform called Gatherly. Please note that Gatherly is only supported on a desktop/laptop and is not available on mobile devices. To test whether your computer can run Gatherly on a browser, please visit test.gatherly.io.

To ensure that you will receive a link for the event, RSVP here as soon as possible. We hope to see you there!

Speakers

EWD begins with opening remarks and important information from several distinguished members of the Engineering community. View the recording and lists of speakers below:

Welcome

Arnold Pfahnl

ESUC President

General Remarks

Jayathi Murthy

Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean

Scott Brandenberg

Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion

Richard Wesel

Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs

Undergraduate Research and Internships

William Herrera

Director of Undergraduate Research and Internship Programs

Career Center

Danit Havton

Assistant Director for Career Education & Engagement

Resilience in your Student Experience (RISE)

Eboni Martin

UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services

Office of Academic and Student Affairs

Anycia Reyes

OASA

Alumni Association

Marianne So

President of Engineering Alumni Association

MentorSEAS

Anirudh Mani & Prithvi Kannan

MentorSEAS Co-Presidents

Organizations

Our virtual club fair features over 40 clubs and student organizations that are eager to meet you! Scroll down to see tabling information, or search the full list of organizations in attendance. Click on any of the organizations to learn more!