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A day in the life of an engineer
Andres Cuevas Jr.
Issue date: 10/10/08 Section: News
The Math Engineering Science Achievement Engineering and Computer Science Program put together a four day event called "A Day In the Life" that brought professional engineers together with students to discuss challenges in reaching engineering jobs.
"We want to provide students with a vision of how it really is to work as a professional after graduating," said Madeleine Fish, director of the MEP.
"Some of the professionals who came to talk are Sacramento State alumni, so the students really benefit from hearing what they went through," Fish said.
Miguel Ramirez, Sac State alumni and former MEP member, came back as a representative for HDR Engineering and spoke about his experiences after graduating.
"I think it's important for me to come back and try to help guide these students. I remember when I was a freshman, I didn't know what the heck was going on," Ramirez said.
Ramirez said the future of his field is in the hands of young students like these. They want to make sure they are steered in the right direction.
"Why is calculus important?" was a question many of the professionals asked the students. After students answered, the professionals explained why it is important in terms of getting a prospective engineering job.
"This was very helpful to me because it exposed me to different perspectives and paths one can take as an engineer," said freshman mechanical engineer major Javier Perez.
"It's not only a good thing, but a smart thing for company representatives to attend events like this because this is where the workforce will come from to fill the jobs in the future," Ramirez said.
The students gathered in small groups with one or two professionals to talk about the engineers' respective jobs.
About every 10 minutes, the professionals would leave their circle and move to the next, giving the students a little time with everybody.
"It opened my eyes to different areas in the civil engineering field, a lot of which I knew nothing about," said freshman civil engineering major Edgar Gomez.
The event lasted four days with new professionals coming in each day. By the end, students met and talked to about 40 to 50 different professionals each.
Andres Cuevas can be reached at acuevas@statehornet.com.
"We want to provide students with a vision of how it really is to work as a professional after graduating," said Madeleine Fish, director of the MEP.
"Some of the professionals who came to talk are Sacramento State alumni, so the students really benefit from hearing what they went through," Fish said.
Miguel Ramirez, Sac State alumni and former MEP member, came back as a representative for HDR Engineering and spoke about his experiences after graduating.
"I think it's important for me to come back and try to help guide these students. I remember when I was a freshman, I didn't know what the heck was going on," Ramirez said.
Ramirez said the future of his field is in the hands of young students like these. They want to make sure they are steered in the right direction.
"Why is calculus important?" was a question many of the professionals asked the students. After students answered, the professionals explained why it is important in terms of getting a prospective engineering job.
"This was very helpful to me because it exposed me to different perspectives and paths one can take as an engineer," said freshman mechanical engineer major Javier Perez.
"It's not only a good thing, but a smart thing for company representatives to attend events like this because this is where the workforce will come from to fill the jobs in the future," Ramirez said.
The students gathered in small groups with one or two professionals to talk about the engineers' respective jobs.
About every 10 minutes, the professionals would leave their circle and move to the next, giving the students a little time with everybody.
"It opened my eyes to different areas in the civil engineering field, a lot of which I knew nothing about," said freshman civil engineering major Edgar Gomez.
The event lasted four days with new professionals coming in each day. By the end, students met and talked to about 40 to 50 different professionals each.
Andres Cuevas can be reached at acuevas@statehornet.com.
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alexhaffey
Economics Dissertation
posted 7/09/09 @ 4:08 AM PST
"This was very helpful to me because it exposed me to different perspectives and paths one can take as an engineer," that's truly words.
Jon
posted 7/10/09 @ 2:22 PM PST
Clearly Alexhaffey works for the administration, and the purpose of all these meaningless comments to the various old stories has been to push down on the recent list the discussion of Dr. (Continued…)
Stan.Bally
Math Assignment
posted 7/14/09 @ 7:02 AM PST
I always wanted to be an engineer. That's why I decided to enter medical-engineering institute. It's very interesting - to work with humans.
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