Engineering Club

Our Mission

To provide the engineering students an opportunity to apply the engineering principles and the programming concepts that they have learned in their coursework to real life engineering projects through collaboration and teamwork. The club also provides opportunities for students to learn leadership skills, time management, soft skills, and proper and effective communication skills with one another and also with other professionals such as college staff and industry leaders.

Our engineering club has an open door policy where students from various majors are invited to join and participate such as math majors, computer science majors, physics and chemistry majors, business majors, to name a few.  This is very much in line with what engineering study is which is a field of study that draws from many disciplines including math, computers, fundamental sciences, and business. 

Students join the club in voluntary basis and they are solely responsible for the type of projects that they elect to do with final approval from the club advisor(s).  This year we have decided to have 2 club advisors due to the tremendous time commitment and my very busy schedule, one of them is me and the other one is Micah Tischler our engineering and physics lab technician.  Club advisors are responsible for the overall existence of the club, obeying of the rules and the policies set forth by the college, its fiscal state, and also the health and safety of the club members.  But all other activity related tasks are the responsibility of the students.

Every year at the end of the Spring semester students elect new club leaders including the club president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer according to the club bylaws.  The new leaders make sure that the previous year’s technical projects are followed through and based on the interest of the new club members, new projects can be brought on board.  Club leaders also actively recruit new members.  Club holds weekly member meetings and biweekly club leader and advisor meetings to discuss club business.  The club also has regular working hours where club members in small or large groups depending on their predetermined schedule work on club projects to meet deadlines. 

As stated earlier, the VEX Robotics projects has been ongoing since 2012.  Every year our club participates in the VEX Robotics competition for university and college students according to the rules set forth by the VEX organization.  Every year during the Fall semester students are informed of the new competition rules and they begin working on designing and making robots that can accomplish the goals of the competition and during the Spring semester is when the local competitions start and then depending on their level of success they get invited to participate in the World’s VEX Robotics competitions. 

Our engineering club has been invited to participate in the VEX Robotics competitions every year since we stated joining this competition in 2012!  Our students have always won many local competitions against universities and colleges such as CSUN, USC, Santa Monica College, Mt. San Antonio College, to name a few.  Our students have also won many awards including team work award, best technical notebook award, best design award, best programming of the robot award, and twice during the World’s VEX Robotics competitions they have won awards for being the best college team in design and communication and sportsmanship.  We have these medals and trophies showcased in a glass box outside of the club workroom.

Our students have not always been able to participate in the World’s VEX Robotics competition, even though they were invited, due to lack of funding as these competitions are usually held outside of CA in Dallas, TX and Kansas City, MO. 

Our student try to fund raise by seeking sponsorship form industry and doing local fundraising activities such as partnering with fast food restaurants, doing bake sale, selling 3-D printed objects and T-shirts.