Enginuity Hall
A Community of Scholars
Many first-year students find our special residence hall option, Enginuity Hall, a great source of support. Enginuity is part of the Community of Scholars Program for Bourns students in the residence halls. There engineering students build academic and social connections.
Bourns Community of Scholars also clusters students with common career interests in the same courses, and augments these clusters with enrichment programs to encourage the formation of strong bonds and informal networks beyond the classroom. The friendships and networks that form reinforce the individual and collective pursuit of academic excellence. We have a special Student Success Coordinator dedicated to help you get the best out of this program.
Professor Javier Garay lives in Enginuity Hall, where he works with students to develop engineering specific programming. They hold mini competitions building robots, catapults, cranes, or mousetrap cars. Some of those ideas might end up in the Freshman Design Competition which are displayed during Engineering Week at the College.
Freshmen also have dinner with faculty members who discuss their own experiences as engineering students. They also participate in games (Assassin) and field trips. There are also opportunities for mentoring by Bourns alumni.
Several first-year students started working in labs last year because of faculty contacts that started with Enginuity Hall. Those contacts can come from lab tours and visits to area companies.