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The UTC College of Engineering and Computer Science hosted “A Day in the Life” for prospective students. Photo credit: CECS.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bo Swanson wants to go into the construction business, just like his dad.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why he came to \u201cA Day in the Life\u201d of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Saturday, Nov. 12.<\/p>\n

A senior at Grace Baptist Academy whose father owns Bobby Swanson Construction in Ringgold, Georgia, the younger Swanson was gathering information about the College\u2019s construction management program. He said he knows how to \u201csort-of read blueprints,\u201d can operate some heavy machinery and understands a few other details about the industry, but he wants to have a solid grasp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a professional who knows it all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Day in the Life\u201d 2022 drew about 25 students from area high schools such as Signal Mountain, Ringgold, Ooltewah and East Brainerd to tour CECS. They watched 30-minute-presentations from each engineering and computer science program. Faculty and CECS students demonstrated equipment, explained each department\u2019s focus, what prospective students would learn and how that knowledge could help pilot their careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of students might say, \u2018I want to be an engineer, but they don’t know the differences between civil and chemical engineering. It helps them differentiate specialties,\u201d said Mary Margaret Sullivan, outreach coordinator in the CECS Center for Student Success and organizer of \u201cA Day in the Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA Day in the Life\u201d is one of many events that bring high school students to campus, where faculty and students explain what the University has to offer in its colleges and academic departments.<\/p>\n

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Chattanooga Times Free Press columnist Mark Kennedy, speaks to high school students during a communications workshop at UTC’s Lupton Hall. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Press Time<\/h4>\n

The Tennessee High School Press Association brought more than 60 students to its Friday, Nov. 11 workshop in Lupton Hall. Potential journalists-to-be found sessions on everything from podcasting to feature writing, broadcast journalism to social media, interviewing to photography.<\/p>\n

Participating students came from nearby high schools including McCallie, Boyd Buchanan, Soddy Daisy and Collegedale Academy, and from others as far away as Tullahoma, about 90 minutes northwest of Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

\u201cHosting events such as the Tennessee High School Press Association workshop benefits the Communication department and UTC by allowing us to partner with area high schools and students interested in studying communication,\u201d said Jim Tanner, lecturer in the Department of Communication and organizer of the workshop.<\/p>\n

Being part of the Tennessee High School Press Association workshop helps get the word out statewide about the UTC Department of Communication, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPartnering with THSPA allows us to work with other Communication departments throughout the state and help raise awareness of the strong programs available for communication studies at UTC.<\/p>\n

Some of those partners include three other universities statewide that UTC joined in hosting THSPA\u2019s fall 2022 workshops: Lipscomb University in Nashville, the University of Memphis and UT Knoxville.<\/p>\n

Still More<\/h4>\n

Some programs held at UTC for prospective students have taken place for decades:<\/p>\n