The Society of Manufacturing Engineers at WCU has some end-of-midterm season fun with a competition between handmade robots. The SME president, Chloe Stewart, says the robot showdown creates not only a learning opportunity for students but also allows them to be creative within their engineering discipline. “The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is an organization where […]
Scammers go phishing for students information through emails
May 7, 2025 by
With students getting hundreds of emails a day for school, it’s hard to sort through all of them to figure out which are real and which are scammers. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, phishing is a way people try to “trick us into opening harmful links or downloading malicious software.” “These […]
Students embrace AI, but are universities falling behind?
April 29, 2025 by
“AI may not take your job, but the person who knows how to use it is,” said Kyla Parks, a construction management major at WCU. Parks talks about how in her field utilizing AI as a constructive tool is useful for safety purposes and that it’s not a replacement for the work in her field. […]
SPOT the Catabot
February 10, 2025 by
Written story originally published in The Western Carolinian Over a year ago, on June 12, 2023, the College of Engineering added a new addition to the team that gained campus attention, SPOT the robotic dog. The Engineering Department received $98.8 million from state legislators to help expand the program in 2023. From those funds, $95.3 million […]
Dungeons & Dragons: a game for dreamers and strategists…and a good present
December 12, 2024 by
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game revolves around a group of players embarking on a story told by a Dungeon Master, commonly called a DM, all in the comfort of wherever the group wants to play. And it makes a […]
ChatGPT – student’s new favorite tool
February 6, 2023 by
“ChatGPT, the cutting-edge AI language model developed by OpenAI, is revolutionizing the way people interact with technology, offering instant and accurate responses to an ever-growing range of queries.” ChatGPT wrote that description of itself, proving just how innovative this technology can be. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that was released to the public at […]
