Almost There

Finals week is coming to an end and everyone is scrambling to finish their work. People have been taking exams all week and compiling evidence. Though all the exams are finished, we still have to have our individual meetings with the instructors. In this meeting we present the evidence we have compiled over the semester and negotiate our grades. Some of us have survived off of coffee and cookies for the past 48 hours, but we're determined to finish.

Proofed by: Christine

Finals are Coming to a Close!!

Finals week is now on the down slope, as we are getting close to finishing out the semester. Just one hour ago marked the end of oral exams being done. And in 24 hours all work is to be completed and handed in. Students are starting their defense interviews right now to prove what they have learned throughout the semester. In these defense interviews students are to bring a professional/seminar binder, design binder, and competency binder. Within these are the work and deliverables we have created during the semester. We will go through them with the faculty and discuss the level that your evidence shows and the grade that it portrays.

This means that IRE is hectic right now. Some students have seemed to gone crazy from staying up for almost 48 hours finishing work. Others are frantically finishing reflections and getting all of their evidence together. It is definitely an “on the edge” type of day. But as for the good news, when the individual students are done with their defense interview, the school year is done and it marks the beginning of summer :)

Proofed by: Tom

Future Engineering Students!!!!

Even though we are scrambling to finish up the semester and get out and enjoy some nice weather (yeah right?!?), students are still finding time to show people around IRE. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been groups of people visiting IRE for a number of reasons.

Two weeks ago, IRE and Mesabi Community College teamed together to host a high school engineering competition. High school students from around the Range spent the morning in the IRE lab learning about what it means to become engineers and experience a part of the problem solving process that many of us tackle every day. Groups of students were given arrangements of solar panels, several different types of light sources, multimeters, mirrors, and basic wiring tools. The students were asked to develop a model of what electrical current they expected generated by the solar panels. The student were then expected to predict what would be generated in their circuits when the judges of the competition, IRE students and faculty, lighted the connected solar panel with an unknown light source.


These events are great for students in high school to get experience in engineering right from the source. Students really enjoyed the competition and so did the staff. Hopefully IRE will be able to host more events to show the community outside of already decided engineering students. Engineering is a field that has a huge demand for graduates and the US needs engineers more now than ever before. We are hoping that some of the high school students are now even more excited to start down the path of becoming an engineer.

Proofed By: Brianna Frey

IRE Golf Outing

On Thursday, May 5 IRE will be having a golf outing at the Eveleth Golf Course. It provides an opportunity to wrap up the semester with a student life event, as most students will have had their exit interviews. It gives a relaxing couple of hours for students to relieve some stress before they depart for the summer. Hopefully it will be a beautiful evening.