For the second year in a row, the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology surpassed its previous external research funding record. The college received $14,248,397 in funding for 2017, which is approximately $80K more than the college received in 2016.

Speaking to a room full of eager students who were balancing taking notes and eating pizza, IM Flash Intern Program Manager Todd Russell detailed how to break into the job market.

“Internships are the number one pipeline to hiring new talent, because it’s a summer long interview,” said Russell. “We want to see if you are someone that we want to invest more time and money into.”

Not many painters can boast having their paintings on display in space. Few musicians compose pieces that assist in surgeries. Architects typically don’t design popular fashion products. But there is a hobby or passion of sorts that has its fingers in all these cookie jars: origami.

The BYU Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology will host events, exhibits and tours in honor of Engineering and Technology Week Tuesday, Feb. 20 – Friday, Feb. 23. All 2018 ET Week events are sponsored by IM Flash Technologies. 

The Thursday events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Feb. 20: Service Project @ 2 p.m.

Details will be forthcoming.

Public Event

Thursday, Feb. 22: EngTech Expo

Thursday, Feb. 8 will be an exciting day for BYU students and STEM organizations alike. The BYU STEM Career Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the WSC Ballroom. The fair is a great way for students in STEM majors to find internship and job opportunities with major companies, such as Boeing, Amazon, Ford and many others.

Below is the schedule of events offered at this semester's STEM Fair Prep Week. We recommend going to as many preparation events as possible to optimize your STEM Fair experience. 

Have you ever used a flight simulator?  BYU alum Jessica Collyer tests and improves them every day for her job at Hill Air Force Base as a software test engineer. Collyer received her mechanical engineering degree from BYU in 2016 and now works as a software test engineer for the United States Air Force. 

BYU electrical and computer engineering professor and holography expert Daniel Smalley has long had a goal to create the type of 3D image projection we see in science fiction. In a paper published this week in Nature, Smalley details the method he has developed to do so.

Entering the workforce after college can have a substantial learning-curve, as BYU alum Jake LaMarr can attest. LaMarr graduated from BYU in 2014 with a degree in chemical engineering and now works for IM Flash Technologies experimenting with plasma etching processes.

Jocelynn (Anderson) Crowther graduated from BYU in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. After graduation, she decided to continue her education, and spent the next two years earning a master’s degree. Halfway through her master’s program, she entered the workforce, accepting a position with J-U-B Engineers, a civil engineering company that provides infrastructure engineering, geographic information systems, and public involvement services.

Dallin Redd graduated from BYU in 2016 with a degree in mechanical engineering and went on to join Ford’s team as a brake controls engineer. He uses daily problem-solving skills that he developed as an undergraduate at BYU.