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Women in Science and Technology conference

Published March 27, 2009 by Eric Pamintuan

“Bridging the Gap” is the theme of this year’s Women in Science and Technology conference (formerly known as the Women in bioScience conference). This one-day symposium includes two keynote speakers and a series of workshops focusing on career and personal development. It is an excellent opportunity for members of the scientific community to network, develop new skills and explore career opportunities.

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Explorations in Statistics: An Undergraduate Summer Program

Published March 27, 2009 by Eric Pamintuan

All program participants’ round-trip travel to Berkeley and their room and board will paid by the program. Explorations in Statistics is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Over the course of our seven-day program, we will explore scientific questions using statistical approaches ranging from simple summaries to more sophisticated modeling approaches.

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MESA/Caltrans Training Academy

Published March 27, 2009 by Eric Pamintuan

Caltrans hosted the MESA Training Academy on March 27, 2009 from 9:00 – 4:00 pm.

Chris Thomas provided an introduction to transportation engineering at their district office in Old Town, fielding questions from students as well as discussing topics such as, ‘what is transportation engineering’, ‘what skills are needed’, ‘how does a project get built’, ‘what needs to be considered when designing a project’, amongst other topics.

Dimitar Peev led a hands on design exercise that allowed students to design a six lane freeway using CADD. Students were provided and lunch and continued the training academy at the transportation management center site where Everett Townsend gave students a tour of the TMC and facilitated a hands on activity that demonstrated real time monitoring and traffic operations strategies, such as incident management, ramp metering and reversible/managed lanes.

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College Shadow Day

Published March 26, 2009 by Eric Pamintuan

On February 10, 2011, 22 middle and high school students from schools within the San Diego and Imperial Valley MESA Schools Programs visited the San Diego State University (SDSU) campus.

The students were matched with their university counterparts in the SDSU MESA Engineering & Maximizing Science Potential program, based on major and interests.

The SDSU students allowed the middle and high schoolers to ‘shadow’ them throughout the day. That meant bringing them along to classes, visiting labs, touring the beautiful campus, and sharing their college experience (both good and bad). For many of these middle and high school students, this was their first college experience and their first time on a college campus.

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