Engineering and Computing Community

	ECC freshmen constructing 2007 FLL Power Puzzle Challenge at September 11, 2007 meeting. Click here for more photos.

The University of South Carolina provides the Engineering and Computing Community (ECC) located in Bates House as an on-campus residential community designed to enrich the educational environment for first-year students in the College of Engineering and Computing. Students who live in the Engineering and Computing Community have access to academic success programs and services as well as increased interaction with faculty from the College of Engineering and Computing.

For the students living in the Bates Community, there are many opportunities to get involved in a wide variety of activities designed to support their development as engineers and as computer science and engineering majors.

One of the activities planned for the year is the support of the set-up and implementation of the FIRST LEGO and FIRST Robotics competitions hosted alternating years by the College of Engineering and Computing.

Providing hands-on experience with the LEGO league competition, ECC freshmen were given the opportunity to meet with Drs. John Weidner and Ed Gatzke, ChE professors who were on the International FLL Power Puzzle Game Design Team, and construct the 2007 FLL Power Puzzle Challenge during ECC's September 11, 2007 meeting.

ECC welcomes participating by all students interested in engineering and computing.

For more information on ECC, please visit their web site at: http://www.housing.sc.edu/rli/eng.asp or contact Donald Griffith, Ed.D., Outreach, Recruitment, Retention Director, Swearingen Engineering Center, Ph 803.777,7505, donn@engr.sc.edu or John M. Dingfelder, Office of Resident Student Learning, GA- South Campus, University Housing, Ph 803.777.1407, dingfelder@sc.edu.

To find the date of an upcoming meeting, please check the home page of this web site under "Students and Organizations."

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9/17/07