SET Events for Students

Engineering Talk Series, Rockville Campus

• Mechanical Engineering at UMBC and Ongoing Research in Bioengineering (PDF, )
  Dr. Liang Zhu, ME Professor, UMBC
  Thursday, March 6, 2025, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
  SW 301 on the Rockville Campus
  Sponsored by: WEST Club

Distinguished Industry Speaker Series Spring 25 – Unlock the Secrets to Secure a Tech Job, Rockville Campus

• META (PDF, )
  Mr. Manoj Wadekar, AI System Technologist
  Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
  SW301 on the Rockville Campus

MC Cyber Lab Events, Germantown Campus

• Thursdays at 1:00 p.m.
  HT230, Germantown Campus
  • March 6: “Zero Days” (2016)
  • March 13: “We are Legion” (2012)
• Active Directory (PDF, )  
  Professor Stephen McGowan
  Monday, March 10, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
  HT230, Germantown Campus or email for a zoom invite link 
  Join for an engaging session exploring the foundation of modern network management – Active Directory
• Cracking Passwords with Hashcat (PDF, )
  Professor David Vargas
  Thursday, March 6, 2025, noon
  HT230, Germantown Campus or Zoomnew window
  Included topics:
  • where to find Hashcat
  • How to install
  • differences in the six “attack modes”
  • comparison of Hashcat vs. John the Ripper

End of the Year Celebration and Design Challenge Award Ceremony 2024 (PDF, )
Thursday, December 12, 4 – 6 p.m. on the Rockville Campus in SW301
Join us for pizza to celebrate the end of the year and to see the judging of the Design Challenge Entries.
For information about the Design Challenge visit Design Challenge 2024.

Design Challenge 2024
This year’s Engineering Innovation Center Design Challenge 2024 is a group challenge for teams of at least three students from STEM and non-STEM majors to design and implement a Kinetic Sculpture.  The competition is on-going during the fall 2024 semester and ends on November 27 (11:59 p.m.).  For more information visit Design Challenge 2024.

AUSEM Scholarship for Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Computing Students Information Session (PDF, )
Tuesday, November 12, 4–5 p.m. on the Rockville Campus in SW301 or by zoomnew window. Visit AUSEM for more information. 

Distinguished Industry Speaker Series Fall 24 – Unlock the Secrets to Secure a Tech Job

• Montgomery County Government (PDF, )
  Ms. Padma Venkatachalam, Business Intelligence Lead, Technology and Enterprise Business Solutions (TEBS)
  Wednesday, November 13, 2024,  3–4:30 p.m., SW301 on the Rockville Campus 

Distinguished Industry Speaker Series Fall 24 – Unlock the Secrets to Secure a Tech Job

• Google (PDF, )
  Dr. Joseph Varghese, Hardware Manager for Data Center Operations
  Wednesday, October 30, 2024,  3–4:30 p.m., SW301 on the Rockville Campus
  
• Meta
  Dr. Kiarash Vakshouri, Staff Reliability Engineer
  Monday, November 4, 2024,  3–4:30 p.m., SW301 on the Rockville Campus

Cybersecurity Awareness October

contact cybersecuritylab@montgomerycollege.edu with questions

• Investigating Child Exploitation on the Darknet (PDF, )
  Prof. David Vargas
  In-Person: Thursday, October 10, 2024,  noon–1 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus
  
• Why We Reverse Engineer and How to Get Started
  Mr. Hash Salehi
  Monday, October 14, 2024,  noon–1 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus
  
• How Digital Forensics is Used in Modern Criminal Investigations (PDF, )
  Prof. Silvia Vargas
  Thursday, October 17, 2024, noon–1 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus
  
• Movie Night - The Beekeeper
  Thursday, October 17, 2024,  3–6 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus
  
• How to Use Wireshark to Monitor Websites
  Prof. Stephen McGowan
  Monday, October 21, 2024,  2–3 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus
  
• Cybersecurity and Space (PDF, )  
  Mr. Samuel Sanders Visner, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or Space ISAC
  In-Person: Friday, October 25, 2024 noon–1 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus
  
• Digital Story Telling Awards Ceremony honoring Kweku Agyepong
  Thursday, October 31, 2024,  noon–1 p.m., HT230 on the Germantown Campus

Montgomery College Advising Day (PDF, ) , Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Science, Engineering & Technology Invites you to participate in MC Advising Day Events on October 22, 2024

• 10–11a.m.: Campus Kick Off, Refreshments and raffle, Learn about MC programs and resources, join sessions about transfer and career opportunities.
• 11 a.m.–noon: Programs Overview and General Information (In-person)
• Noon–4 p.m.: Open Advising Drop In (In-person) 
• 2–4 p.m.: Program Advising Virtual Online. Advisors from UMD Engineering, UMD IS, UMBC CS along with MC Faculty Advisors
• 4–5:30 p.m.: STEM Internships Virtual Online
  Michael Mehalick, Project Manager, Academic Affairs, iSTEM Network, Montgomery College
  Learn about Internships and SET Area scholarship opportunities (AUSEM/DREEM/NIST PREP)

Engineering Talk Series

USE MATLAB to Plot and Solve Algebraic Equations (PDF, )
Prof. Alex Hou
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 4:00–5:00 p.m. in SC428 on the Rockville Campus
Snacks and water will be provided.

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Georgia Tech – Dual Degree Engineering Webinar (PDF, )
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 6:00 p.m.
Meet with an admission Representative and learn more about life at Georgia Tech and their admission process.  Register via the QR code on the flyer (PDF, )

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UMD Fire Protection Engineering (PDF, )
Drop-in to talk with an academic advisor from the UMD Fire Protection Engineering program.  Learn about the best engineering major you’ve never heard of!
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to noon

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Science, Engineering, and Technology Student Clubs Kick-off, Thursday, September 26, 4:00–5:30 p.m., SW301 on the Rockville Campus

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Brought to you by the WEST Club (Women in Engineering, Science and Technology Club)
Friday, April 12, 2024, 2:00–3:00 p.m, SW 301 Rockville Campus
Speaker: Faye O’Brien, President of Nvolve
Title: Future-proof Your STEM Career: Strategies, Skills and Insights with Nvolve

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SET Area Advising Week (PDF, )
April 9 – April 12, 2024
Take advantage of open advising hours during advising week and talk with an advisor.

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AUSEM Scholarship Information Session
For Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Computing Students
Wednesday, April 10, 2024,  4:00–5:00 p.m.

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Alumni Panel Discussion
Friday, April 5, 2024, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Talk with computer science and engineering alumni for advice on how to succeed in college and in your career.
Alumni Panelists (PDF, )

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Engineering Talk Series

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 3:00–4:00 p.m. in SW103 (inside the Ackerman Learning Center) on the Rockville Campus.  Miss Jessica Gallo will give a talk, “Fire of Electric Vehicle Battery: Prevention and Rescue”.  Ms. Gallo is a Montgomery College student who works as an intern at Fire & Risk Alliance and is conducting research in this area.  She is planning to transfer to UMD Fire Protection Engineering this fall.  Snacks and water will be provided.

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Distinguished Industry Speaker Series – Unlock the Secrets to Secure a Tech Job

• Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 3:00–4:30 p.m., Microsoft Corporation, Dr. Viren Jadhav, Director, Device Reliability.  
  Dr. Jadhav will be in person on the Rockville Campus in SW301 and virtually at the Germantown Campus in the Cyberlab HT230.  
• Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 3:00–4:30 p.m., CISCO Systems, Ms. Sujata Joshi, Director, Service Delivery Management
  The presenters will be available virtually on the Rockville Campus in SW301 and virtually at the Germantown Campus in the Cyberlab HT230.
  
• Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 3:00–4:30 p.m., Apple, Inc., Mr. Fadzli Hassan, Technical Program Manager
  The presenters will be available virtually on the Rockville Campus in SW301 and virtually at the Germantown Campus in the Cyberlab HT230. 
  
• Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 3:00–4:30 p.m., Rivian, Dr. Mojan Sohi, Sr. Manager, Design for Reliability
  Rivian – Producing electric adventure vehicles made for the planet
  The presenters will be available virtually on the Rockville Campus in SW301 and virtually at the Germantown Campus in the Cyberlab HT230.  
• GridPro Ventures
  Mr. Raj Iyer, Founder and CEO
  Wednesday, October 23, 2024,  3–4:30 p.m., SW301 on the Rockville Campus

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Brought to you by the IEEE Club (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Friday, March 29, 2024, 4:15–6:15 p.m., SW 301 Rockville Campus
Work with a team and learn to build a simple RC car.
Will your team’s car win the race at the end of the event?!

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MC is turning World Quantum Day into Quantum Week!

• World Quantum Day – April 14, 2024
• Mon, April 15, 12:15 p.m., SC415 Rockville Campus – Student Lecture “Quantum Superposition” by Jack Spillane
• Tues, April 16, noon, SC415 Rockville Campus – Quantum Game Playing: Quantum Chutes and Ladders and Qubit Touchdown
• Wed, April 17, noon, SC415 Rockville Campus – Student Lecture “Applications of Matrix Transformations to the Qubit” by Ema Sanchez
• Fri, April 19, 9:30 a.m. Globe Hall Germantown Campus – Nobel Laureate Lecture “Quantum Computers and Raising Schrodinger’s Cat” by Dr. David J. Wineland

A Day in the Life
A series of short Zoom sessions where engineers visit to tell us what they do on the job in their day-to-day work.

• Leonna Deans, Electrical Engineer, Distribution Engineering, PEPCO
  Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 1:00–1:15 p.m.  Please arrive 5 to 10 minutes early.
  
  
• Corshay Burnell, Distribution Designer, PEPCO
  Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM, Please arrive 5 to 10 minutes early
  
  

Student Workshop: The Power of High Performing Teams  (PDF, )
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 3:00–4:30 p.m. SW 301 on the Rockville Campus
Facilitator: Cindy Peterson
Learn how to be an effective team player in any workforce.
Learn what it takes for a team to be high functioning.