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2012 Shadow Day

Published November 7, 2012 by Eric Pamintuan

Through the San Diego MESA Alliance, college students will have a unique experience to witness the “real world” of work in an engineering or scientific environment. Your involvement will provide a great opportunity for our up and coming students to “test the waters” in a field of their interest and see first-hand how classroom skills relate to the workplace.
What better way to do that, than observe and work with a professional in action! You the employer, get to make a positive impact on the lives of students; future engineers and scientists!
More information can be found at http://mep.sdsu.edu/Shadowday.htm

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Mars Curiosity Seminar

Published October 31, 2012 by Eric Pamintuan

Mars Curiosity Seminar

Presentation this Friday (11/2/2012) at UCSD on the recent Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL). The guest speaker is Brian Schratz, the lead engineer for telecommunications for the EDL team (he was one of the few people in mission control the night of the landing). This seminar promises to be inspiring to students embarking on STEM careers.

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2012 Walk on Water Competition

Published October 29, 2012 by Eric Pamintuan

The 2012 Walk on Water competition was held on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at the Southwestern Community College swimming pool, from 9:00 – 1:00 PM. The competition had over 34 attendees, with 8 teams from Southwestern College, San Diego State University, San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, and La Jolla High School.

Teams of MESA students designed “buoyancy shoes”, and student “shoe pilots” race across the length of the pool. The competition allows students to gain experience at applying applying the engineering design process; solving open-ended problems.

Some of the campuses respective MESA programs’ refunded costs to build the buoyancy shoes that teams created to ‘walk on water’, up to $100. Southwestern College student organizations such as AMSA (American Medical Student Association) and SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) sold refreshments as part of their fundraising efforts.

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