Ideal courses for a student with an engineering profile

Naveen asked:
"What are the apt courses for someone with a lot of experience in team-management, Engineering (Mechanical, Plastic, Manufacturing, Enviornmental, transportation etc.) and who is an above average computer aided designer ?"

There are some students with an engineering background in school though maybe not with that much experience. The ones that come to my mind now are Rishabh Singh and Steven Babitch. Feel free to ask them by email.

Post the answers you get from your mentor

For those of you who are in the mentoring program:
I encourage you to post in this blog any answer you get from your mentors that you think might be useful for the rest of the new students.
This could be specially helpful when getting recommendations on which courses to take, ways to find an apartment, neighbourhoods to live or other information based on your mentor's personal experience or preference.

thanks all

class schedule and school year schedule ?

anonymous wrote this in the first post's comment section:

"Thank you for committing to answering our questions. To kick-off the question stampeed, I was hoping to find out when a class schedule and school year schedule will be coming out? Thanks in advance."

I think Rachel Smothers can answer this one..

Everybody is invited!

For your information, invitations have been sent already to all new students and welcomeID committee members.

However, if you are a new student but have not received an invitation, just send me an email ( enricg@id.iit.edu ) and I will send you an invite.

Cool & Useful Sites of Chicago

Thing to do in the loop
http://www.chicagoloopalliance.com/intheloop/index.htm

Chicago public transportation
http://tripsweb.rtachicago.com/
http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/rail/rail.html
http://www.metrarail.com/

Cultural events
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalEntityHomeAction.do?entityName=Cultural+Center&entityNameEnumValue=128
http://www.broadwayinchicago.com/
http://www.chicagoshakes.com/
http://hottix.org/
http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/Calendar/Friday.html
http://www.cso.org/main.taf?erube_fh=csocom&csocom.submit.perfDetail=1&csocom.eventID=7215

http://chicago.craigslist.org/

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/

*Add your favorite sites below.

WelcomeID: Mentoring Program

Hi!

Welcome to the Institute of Design this fall. The WelcomeID committee, a student run group in charge of student orientation, has a bunch of activities planned tomake the beginning of your school experience great. We would like to jump right into the mentorship program where we match you up with a current student you can talk with about living in Chicago, going to ID, etc.If you would like to participate, please send me the following information:
1) Track (foundation, communication, product, planning, or PhD)
2) Place of current residence
3) Educational/professional background

Soon we will be sending out the link to a student blog to answer any questions you might have.

Looking forward to meeting all of you!

WelcomeID Committee
Hyuniee Jung, David McGaw, Enric Gili Fort, Woojin Park

hyuniee@id.iit.edu