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Calling all graduate-level women engineers! Join us for a quick collaboration with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Grad Student Affairs for a quick 2.8 mile trip on Old San Gabriel Canyon Road. Coming with us are not one, but two great engineering professors: Gale Lucas and Saty Raghavachary. Come to enjoy not only the great conversation but the view of the Azusa mountains and the San Gabriel River.
PACKING LIST:
Hats!!! [ Very important, not a well shaded hike!!]
Sunscreen
H2O
Good Hiking Shoes (pretty rocky terrain)
WAIVERS
PROFESSOR: Gale Lucas
DEPARTMENT: Computer Science and Civil and Environmental Engineering
RATE MY PROFESSOR: "Dr. Lucas was a very good professor who really cared about teaching her students"
Gale Lucas is a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the Viterbi School of Engineering and works at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT). She completed her post-doc with Dr. Jon Gratch at ICT, and then stayed on at ICT as a senior research associate before becoming a research assistant professor. Her research focuses on rapport, disclosure, trust, persuasion, and negotiation with virtual agents and social robots.
PROFESSOR: Saty Raghavachary
DEPARTMENT: Computer Science
RATE MY PROFESSOR: “If u need to recover from whatever other courses, Saty is the best.”
Dr. Saty Raghavachary is an Associate Professor of CS Practice, where he teaches courses on computer graphics (CG), databases and introductory programming. From 2004-2014 he was a part-time lecturer in CS, during which time he taught graphics and animation courses. Saty has published two popular books on RenderMan, the CG industry’s leading rendering software. He is working on a third book, on Maya Python. Saty also gives talks to schools and colleges in the LA area (eg. Cal Lutheran, LMU, GCC) on animation production and CG.
PEAK: Old San Gabriel Canyon Road Trail
DIFFICULTY: 2/5
SCENERY: A little bit of rocks, a little bit of mountain and a lot of river hehe
FUN FACT: real LA history, we’ll be on an old service road that got abandoned in construction
TRIP LEAD: ARIKE
happens to be a woman…and an engineer (allegedly)
Contact Arike: aocoker@usc.edu
Read Arike's bio here.