Upcoming Events

Leadership Summit

Student Activities

This event is reserved for students who are ready to use their unique experience and skill to discover their potential and enrich the lives of fellow students. Interview and compete for a position in leadership groups including University Ambassadors, Student Government, Student Mentors, Residence Hall Association, the Service Involvement Center and more.

Student Body Elections

Student Activities

Come vote for your representatives.

Buckner Lunch & Learn

Social/Networking | Student Recruiting

Buckner is an insurance brokerage firm in the property, workers comp, liability, employee benefits, risk management, & bonding and surety markets. Come learn about full-time opportunities they have open right now. Lunch will be provided. Please register here beforehand.

Student Success Workshop

Workshop/Training

Stress Management - Tips to Improve Physical and Mental Wellness

Free and open to all USU Eastern students

Gallery Walk with artist Pilar Pobil

Exhibition

Pilar Pobil is a well-known artist who was born in Spain at a time "when women were not encouraged to pursue their ambitions." She followed a more traditional path -- she got married, moved to the United States and had three children. When she was in her forties, she began to take her ambition seriously. She's self-taught in many mediums and currently resides in a beautiful, well-painted home in Salt Lake City. Pilar creates art from a place of feeling, using this to depict the reality she has lived.

Join Pilar at Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library for a walk around an exhibit featuring her work. She will discuss what each piece meant to her at the time of its creation. This event is free and open to the public.

Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship Workshop

Workshop/Training

If you are currently receiving a Pell Grant, then you are eligible to apply for the Gilman Scholarship for study abroad! Fall 2020, Academic Year 2020-2021, and Summer 2020 applications are due March 3, 2020.

Come to one of our advising sessions for Gilman Scholarship applications to get an overview of the scholarship,
plus tips for essay writing. If you would like feedback from an advisor on your essays, you are welcome to bring them.

The sessions will be held in Military Science 217 (upstairs). Feel free to come and go as needed during the workshops.

Why Failure is Essential for Student Learning

Workshop/Training

Students are frequently asked to achieve, on their first attempts, stellar results on high-stakes, high-pressure assessments. New research on the science of learning is beginning to show us that this strategy does not work well, though, because it is not how human beings naturally learn. We need to make mistakes before we can get the right answers. In this talk, I’ll be reviewing some of the most important findings in this new area of inquiry and suggesting ways that we can generate “opportunities for failure” in our courses so that our students may learn more effectively.

Josh Eyler is director of faculty development and director of the Thinkforward Quality Enhancement Plan at the University of Mississippi, where he is also on the faculty in the department of writing and rhetoric. He previously worked on teaching and learning initiatives at Columbus State University, George Mason University, and Rice University. His research interests include the biological basis of learning, evidence-based pedagogy, and disability studies, and he is the author of How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (WVU, 2018).

3D Bridge Competition

Student Activities

Bridge Competition Rules
The bridge must:

be made of only 3D printed ABS
span a minimum of 5 in.
be no more than 10 in. long
be no more than 3 in. wide
be no more than 3 in. tall
Weigh no more than 1 lb.
Accept a loading block 1.5 in. X 1.5 in.

The provided loading block must:

be centered horizontally across the 5 in. span.

pass completely through the bridge, parallel to the ground and normal to the long axis of the bridge design space.

vertical placement of the loading block does not matter given the bridge is supports all the weight.


The winner will be selected according to which bridge meets all requirements listed and hold the most weight without breaking.

Breaking will be identified through a bridge which may no longer support the test weight, or which deflects the loading block more than 1 in. from the original unloaded position.

Data, Models, Errors, And Uncertainty

Conference/Seminar

Talk by Eric Kostelich, President's Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - ASU

Dr. Eyler Book Signing

Reception/Reunion

Dr. Eyler will be signing copies of his book, How Humans Learn; The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, during a short reception after his seminar. Books will be sold during this event as well.

Year of the Women: Optimizing Health with Iron: Resistance Training for the [Fe]male Population

Panel Discussion/Presentation | Year of the Woman

Speaker Normajean Driscoll, PT, DPT, CSCS will present about optimizing health with Iron

Pinewood derby

Recreation

Pine wood derby at community night.
2 category's, open with no rules and BSA rules

Community Night

Exhibition

Community Night is your opportunity to experience fun, hands-on learning. Launch mini rockets, or play in the 3-D sandbox. Visit the Electrical Engineering section to learn how to solder; or stop by the Mechanical section and compete in our famous pine wood derby competition. Don’t forget to explore Kids Korner for the egg-drop event and popcorn! There’s something for everyone so bring the entire family!

Talent Show

Arts/Entertainment

The talent show is open to anyone in the College of Engineering. We are accepting talents of all kinds, the nerdier the better, but any talent is welcome. We will accept 12 applications. The participants will be judged by a panel of professors. Prizes will be given to overall 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, and another prize for nerdiest talent. First place prize is $50. All participants will receive a pad of engineering paper.

Participants are required to attend a planning meeting on the Monday or Tuesday before the talent show. There is a question on the sign-up sheet to indicate which day works better.

Election Stop

Student Activities

Come dance with friends and find out who your next Student Body President, Executive VP, and VP for Activities will be.
For current USU students only.

Election Stomp

Student Activities

Election results will be announced at 10:00 pm.