Mikaela Caron provides highlights of a week in her life as a junior majoring in mechatronics engineering technology in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University.
Mikaela had a very busy week planned when she agreed to document her major and student life for seven days. First up was the Greater Lafayette Startup Weekend, where she decided to pitch a business idea.
"I learned how hard it is to begin developing an idea into a final product," Mikaela Caron, #MyPolytechnicMajor pic.twitter.com/6ep2XtHoFJ
— Purdue Polytechnic (@TechPurdue) September 13, 2016
Mikaela's class schedule includes courses in mechanical, manufacturing and electrical engineering technologies, all of which require hands-on practice of theories. "That’s what I like about the Polytechnic majors: you learn the concepts and then do something in lab that relates to all of that,” she says.
“I like how I learn about different fields and I get to see how they connect,” Mikaela Caron #MyPolytechnicMajor pic.twitter.com/CjhfTMxEA5
— Purdue Polytechnic (@TechPurdue) September 16, 2016
One of the events Mikaela was able to attend was the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2016 in Chicago.