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Tess Hatch is a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, a Venture Capital firm managing over $5 Billion in investments. Tess studied Aerospace Engineering as an undergrad at the University of Michigan. She then completed two internships at SpaceX and Boeing before deciding to pursue her Master's Degree at Stanford. Tess joined BVP in 2017 and is now a Vice President focusing on frontier tech. This includes commercial space companies such as Rocket Labs and Spire.

This episode is hosted by Owen Marr and Alex Samra. Alex is the incoming external vice president (EVP) for SEDS. He is studying Aerospace Engineering and is extremely passionate about entrepreneurship in engineering.

Danny Ellis is the CEO of SkySpecs Inc, which develops drone software for the autonomous inspection of wind turbines. Danny attended UofM for his undergrad and graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering. Today, SkySpecs has over 70 employees and closed their $17M Series C round in December of 2019. 

In this Episode, Owen Marr and Danny Ellis walk through Danny's time at UofM,  how SkySpecs has evolved over the years, and then Danny answers questions posed by SEDS members. Enjoy!

SkySpecs Website: https://skyspecs.com/

This episode is hosted by Rupal Nigam, Sahil Farishta, and Riley Schnee. They discuss various ways to get involved in computer science outside of  classes, including clubs, project teams, research, and hackathons. In addition, they address the CS minor, independent study, and advising.

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CS Outside of Classes: 00:50
CS Minor: 09:50
Independent Study: 12:00
Advising: 12:55

This episode is hosted by Rupal Nigam, Rosie Van Alsburg, Sahil Farishta, and Riley Schnee. They discuss their insights into the upper-level computer science courses at Michigan.

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EECS 388: 00:50
EECS 485: 07:35
EECS 445: 09:55
EECS 442: 16:55
EECS 498/598 (Special Topics): 19:50
EECS 482: 25:00
EECS 201: 34:20
EECS 481: 34:55
EECS MDEs: 36:00
Brief Overviews of Other ULCs: 44:20

This episode is hosted by Rupal Nigam, Rosie Van Alsburg, Sahil Farishta, and Riley Schnee. They discuss how they got into computer science and their early experiences studying it at Michigan.

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Intros & Personal Background: 00:45
CS through LSA vs ENGR: 10:00
Testing out of 101/183: 13:00
Imposter Syndrome: 14:00
Project Collaboration & Learning Git: 17:50
ENGR 101: 21:15
EECS 183: 23:00
EECS 280: 24:45
EECS 203: 26:00
EECS 281 & Debugging: 27:50
Being an EECS IA: 39:10
EECS 376 & 370: 42:25
TECHCOMM 300: 49:20

This episode is hosted by Owen Marr with guests Amit Kothekar and Alex Sena. The trio discuss the origins of SEDS and walk through the major events of SEDS@UM from 2016-2020. 

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Intros & SEDS Nationals: 0:0:0

SEDS@UM History: 0:3:15

How we joined SEDS: 0:5:10

SEDS 2017: 0:13:10

SEDS 2018: 0:28:20

SEDS 2019&2020: 0:47:48

SEDS Future & Final Thoughts: 1:32:42