{"id":171328,"date":"2021-04-16T14:33:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=171328"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T18:33:29","slug":"zoe-coleman-21-school-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/04\/zoe-coleman-21-school-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Coleman &#8217;21, School of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why did you choose UConn?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am a proud legacy student! Both of my parents went to UConn, though I\u2019m the first one at the UConn School of Engineering. I just felt like UConn was a great balance of a solid engineering education while maintaining the diversity of a larger university. I didn\u2019t want to be surrounded by only engineers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your major and why did you choose it?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am a mechanical engineering major with a concentration in design and manufacturing. I was actually accepted to UConn as a PNB major, but I ended up switching because of how much I enjoyed a robotics class I took senior year of high school. Before that, I had never really considered the possibility of engineering. Looking back, it was a fantastic choice and I\u2019m so glad I decided to take that leap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your plans after graduation?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m going to be moving all the way out to Arizona! I\u2019ll be working as a manufacturing engineer for Raytheon Missiles &amp; Defense. It\u2019s going to be a big change but I\u2019m ready for it. I\u2019m also very excited to start my career and put my education into practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What activities were you involved with as a student?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was involved in formula SAE as a freshman and sophomore. I was also a member of the Engineering House Learning Community starting my sophomore year and have worked with EDOC as a SPARK counselor for two years. I also worked as an IT support specialist for ITS. Finally, I\u2019ve been a member of Phi Sigma Rho sorority for four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s one thing every student should do during their time at UConn?<\/strong><br \/>\nI think every student should go to a UConn game. It doesn\u2019t matter what sport! I\u2019ve always loved the feeling of cheering on our team surrounded by other students. Personally, I\u2019d recommend checking out a bunch of different sports. The games are often free and always a good time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was your favorite professor and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nBryan Weber is such a dedicated professor and really put in so much effort to try and help us get excited about engineering. His classes were always extremely enjoyable and rewarding. Georgios \u201cGeorge\u201d Matheou was another professor who put in an incredible amount of effort and really connected with the students. I\u2019m so glad I was able to take classes with these two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Coleman &#8217;21, School of Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":171329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-171328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 00:16:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171605,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171328\/revisions\/171605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/171329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171328"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=171328"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=171328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}