Growing Your Future--First-Year Seminar

Catalog description

This first-year seminar introduces students to the university in general and to the breadth of the Biological Engineering (BE) and Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management (ABSM) programs. Students participate in hands-on lab activities in the program focus areas, including food processing, bioproducts, machinery, agricultural systems, and natural resources. Through these lab activities and a group project, students learn how the profession is critical to providing a growing world population with food, fiber, fuel, and water under increasing environmental constraints. In addition to being introduced to Penn State as an academic community, students also become familiar with the resources, tools, and opportunities available to them. Through lab activities and in-class discussions on research, internship, and international opportunities, students meet and establish relationships with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students affiliated with the BE and ABSM programs.