CSE Student Services:
Academic Advising + Career Services (weeks 4-5)
Time Management and Study Techniques (week 6)
CSE Trivia
Campus Resources
(week 9- wellness)
Experiential Learning + Resumes (week 11-12)
100

Other than technical abilities, this is the term for what CSE employers are looking for. 


What are transferrable skills?

(Communication, critical thinking, flexibility, etc.)

100

This is a goal-setting framework that helps you ensure that your objectives are attainable within a certain time frame.

What are SMART goals?

(Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound)

100

The name of the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering? 

What is Andrew G. Alleyne?

100

This campus resource provides free groceries including produce, meat, and dairy products and household items available to any University of Minnesota student. Located in Coffman Memorial Union. 

What is Nutritious U Food Pantry?

100

This is a makerspace on campus with a large open work space designed primarily for prototyping and has many resources, including 3D printers, laser cutters, hand tools, computers, whiteboards, workbenches, and more. 

What is the Anderson Student Innovation Lab? 

200

This tool helps you find and plan your class schedule for a semester before your registration window.

What is Schedule Builder?

200

This is a technique where you link a new habit you want to establish with an existing habit you already do regularly.

What is Habit Stacking?

200

In this year the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology changed its name to the College of Science and Engineering (CSE).

What is 2010?

200

This service offers advice and legal representation to eligible students at the University of Minnesota - practice areas include tenant rights, criminal cases, immigration, consumer, employment, wills, health care directives, power of attorney, name change, and gender change.

What is Student Legal Service?

200

Employers identify this as the most common mistake they see on student resumes. 

What is Poor Quality Writing (misspelling, grammar)? 

300

This is the University of Minnesota's free online career network that connects students and alumni with jobs, internships, and other opportunities 

What is Handshake?

300

This is a tool through UMN libraries that breaks down research and writing projects into manageable steps based on your due dates. 

 What is The Assignment Calculator?

300

The number of undergraduate majors in CSE.

What is 20?

300

This resource is a student-founded and student-employed program that promotes campus safety by providing all U of M students with a free safe ride home. It is open 7 days per week from 9 pm-1 am.

What is Boynton Health's Gopher Chauffeur?

300

This is a project-based experiential learning course only offered to freshmen in CSE that offers hands on learning in 3D Printing and Microcontrollers or Stratospheric Ballooning.

What is  CSE 1012?

400

This is the report that lists your degree requirements, summarizes your progress, and explains what you still need to do to complete your undergraduate degree program. 


What is the APAS (Academic Progress Audit System)?

400

This is a time management method that involves alternating between periods of focused work (25 mins) and short breaks (5 mins). 

What is The Pomodoro Method?

400

This CSE department is the youngest. 

What is the Department of Industrial and System Engineering (ISyE - 2012)?

400

This mental wellness resource provides informal virtual and in-person drop-in consultations for U of M students throughout the academic year. Counselors can listen to specific problems, provide support, help explore solutions, and give information about other resources.  

What is Let's Talk?

400

This campus resource is one of the best ways for CSE students to get hands-on support with job materials including resumes, cover letters, mock interviews, and more. 

What is meeting with a CSE Career Counselor?

500

This is the career assessments offered through CSE Career Services which looks at your interests and values, and highlights careers that may be a good fit for you.

What is PathwayU?

500

This is a task management tool that helps prioritize tasks by their urgency and importance. The user creates a four-quadrant diagram that divides tasks into the following categories - Do, Schedule, Delegate, Delete 

What is The Eisenhower Matrix?

500
The year the College of Engineering was first organized.


(Must be within 30 year)

What is 1884?

500

This campus office rents outdoor gear including camping and backpacking gear; climbing, bouldering, and mountaineering gear; mountain bikes; canoes and paddle boards; classic and skate cross country skis; and Snowshoes

What is The Center for Outdoor Adventure?

500

These are the three components to write a strong skills statement [on your resume].

What is Action Verb + Detail + Result?