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2010 NSF/MESA Summer Team Internship Reception

Published August 5, 2010 by Eric Pamintuan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the San Diego MESA Alliance (SDMA) provided stipends for 36 student interns (12 students in MESA/MEP program at each campus – San Diego City College, San Diego State University, and Southwestern Community College) this summer at various projects in science and engineering firms.

This is a unique paid internship that incorporates a team component into the student internship experience. Hired student interns were placed in teams of 2-4 students to work on projects in engineering and science firms or for faculty. Summer internships occurred between May through August of 2010, at a minimum of 100 hours. In some cases, employers and/or faculty may extend internships or create other internship opportunities for students (beyond summer 2010).

Company partners:

  1. Alere
  2. Biotechnology Education & Training Sequence Investment (BETSI) Project at Salk Institute
  3. Fqubed
  4. Hughes Program
  5. Research:  Dr. Diane Smith
  6. Caltrans
  7. Dexcom
  8. Infrastructure Engineering Corporation
  9. Malcolm Pirnie
  10. Kennedy/Jenks Consultants
  11. NAVAIR
  12. Northrop Grumman Corporation
  13. Research:  Professor Rafael Alvarez
  14. Research:  Professor Misael Camarena
  15. Regional Water Quality Control Board
  16. Rick Engineering Company
  17. Research:  Dr. Gordon Lee
  18. Research:  Dr. Joseph Lewis
  19. Research:  Dr. Khaled Morsi
  20. San Diego Coastkeeper
  21. SouthWest Water Company
  22. San Diego Zoo
  23. San Diego Natural History Museum
  24. SDSU Global Change Research Group
  25. SPAWAR
  26. Spectrum Scientific, Inc.
  27. Short-Term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons
  28. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
  29. Summer Undergraduate Research
  30. UniversityLink Medical Science

Collaboratively, each student intern team created a joint poster that detailed their team’s experiences at their respective companies and presented to those in attendance at the 3rd Annual NSF/MESA Summer Team Internship reception held on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at San Diego State University in Montezuma Hall.

The program for the luncheon included keynote speakers David T. Hayhurst, SDSU Dean of the College of Engineering, and San Diego MESA Alliance Industry Advisory Board Chair Brianna Lutes of Infrastructure Engineering Company, followed by student and mentor recognition. Open poster presentation/networking amongst guests in attendance closed out the luncheon.

The following are a few of the summer team interns’ poster presentations:

  1. SDSU – Patague – Vianzon
  2. SWC – Watanabe
  3. SWC – Villasenor
  4. SWC – Vasquez – Deleon
  5. SWC – Quijada – Moran
  6. SWC – Perez – Hagar – Newell
  7. SWC – Manguy – Takesi – Lash
  8. SWC – Lopez
  9. SWC – Diaz – Ramirez
  10. SWC – Delgado
  11. SWC – Byrum
  12. SWC – Becotte
  13. SWC – Almos
  14. SWC – Alcantar – Robles
  15. SDSU – Shultz – Hanthel
  16. SDSU – Gallardo – Mohtasib
  17. SDSU – Hernandez – Dang – Pollack – Jimenez
  18. CITY – Long – Rhee – Yepiz
  19. CITY – Huang – Sarmiento – Ascensio
  20. CITY – Gomez – Taylor
  21. CITY – Carter – Corona – Miles
  22. SWC – Ramirez
  23. SDSU – Reveles – Schroeder
  24. SWC – Godinez – West
  25. SWC – Perez – Medina

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