Texas Tech Treks

Treks begin at 1:00 p.m. and happen on half-hour intervals, but some Treks are longer than 30 minutes.  Treks will happen on a rolling basis throughout the afternoon, so no sign up is required.  Trek guides will meet interested trekkers at the signs on the Engineering Key.  Your team’s registration packet will explain which treks happen when and how long each takes.   

Every department in the College of Engineering will offer a tour of their facilities and an introduction to what it’s like to be an engineering student at Texas Tech University.  You’ll also get a chance to see the $37 million Experimental Sciences Building and see state-of-the-art GIS and microwave labs.  And don’t miss the opportunity to get a tour of Texas Tech University and see how our great Spanish-style architecture provides a beautiful backdrop for the teaching, learning, and research happening every day.

Examples of things you might see on the Treks include the Civil and Environmental Engineering tornado cannon and NASA lab, the Chemical Engineering industrial unit operations laboratory, the Computer Science Macintosh Labs, Electrical and Computer Engineering undergraduate labs like a GPS automated model car competition and several robots, the Industrial Engineering ergonomics laboratories, Mechanical Engineering labs like the Cardiovascular, Combustion, and the Materials Labs, and Petroleum Engineering simulations.