Electrical Engineering
Work with signals, circuits, and power.
What connected your answers
- You chose investigating forces, energy, and waves.
- You chose building and measuring a physical prototype.
SLATE / INTERESTS INTO EXPLORATION
MAGE.
Major Alignment & Guidance Engine
Start with curiosity.
Find a few paths to explore.
A native Slate questionnaire that connects student interests with academic programs, explains the suggestions, and saves context for the next conversation.
See how the engine worksDesigned and built by David Dysart.
BEFORE A MAJOR NAME COMES A QUESTION
What would you
like to explore?
Students are often asked to choose an academic interest before they know what studying it could look like. MAGE starts with things they would like to investigate, make, or try.
The questionnaire offers a few programs worth exploring. For a browsing-first experience, explore Slate Portals. MAGE starts with the student’s own answers.
ONE FORM / CONNECTED OUTPUTS
From an answer
to a reason to explore.
- 01 / ANSWER
Start with curiosity.
Questions ask what the student would like to investigate, create, improve, or try. “Not sure yet” is always an option.
- 02 / CONNECT
Look for supporting interests.
Configurable weights and supporting answers connect student interests with the institution’s academic programs.
- 03 / EXPLAIN
Offer a few paths.
Suggestions include reasons drawn from the student’s answers, program descriptions, sample projects, and related majors.
- 04 / PRESERVE
Keep the useful context.
Interest summaries are saved with the form response for later conversations and communication.
Answers become program suggestions and reusable interest summaries. Suggested programs remain separate from a declared major.
A SUGGESTION / A REASON
Show the connection.
Leave room to discover.
Supporting answers guide the suggestions. Close results receive similar-alignment language; uncertainty and broad interests receive useful next steps.
EXAMPLE PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS
A sample result showing how selected answers connect with programs to explore.
Computer Engineering
Connect code to the physical world.
What connected your answers
- You chose building and measuring a physical prototype.
- You chose building electronics and computing hardware.
Another program shows similar alignment with your answers. Explore both.
Aerospace Engineering
Explore the engineering of flight and space.
What connected your answers
- You chose building reliable physical systems.
- You chose investigating forces, energy, and waves.
Another program shows similar alignment with your answers. Explore both.
Starting points for exploration, based on interests shared today. The questionnaire does not measure ability or determine admission.
WHAT THEY CHOSE / WHAT WE CAN ASK NEXT
Keep the interest.
Continue the conversation.
Direct answer summaries preserve useful details without turning them into fixed personality labels.
These interests can guide reflection prompts, relevant follow-up, and counselor conversations.
- Challenges
- What would you like to tackle?
- Activities
- What would you like to try?
- Outcomes
- What would you like your work to support?
- Approaches
- How would you begin a problem?
- Team contributions
- What would you like to bring to a team?
PUT IT TO WORK
What could your
students discover?
Connect the questions you ask with programs to explore and a useful next conversation.