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Feb. 20, 2023


Research@Tech Day offers high school students a preview of academic life

Anita Montoya, Katie Neal, Livia De Viterbo
Senior civil engineering major Katie Neal, center, describes her experiences at New Mexico Tech over the past four years for the audience of 250 high school students 和他们的200位客人. 左边是同学Anita Montoya,大三学生 electrical engineering, and at right is Livia De Viterbo, a senior pursuing a mineral 工程学位. 

SOCORRO, N.M. – Prospective students hoping to turn college experience into a career in industry, government, a lab, or continue their education in graduate school explored their abundant options at a showcase of student research on the 威尼斯人app下载 campus. More than 250 students and over 200 of their parents and guardians attended Research@Tech Day Feb. 20, 2023, to learn more about the university’s hands-on research projects in 科学、技术、工程、数学等领域.

物理实验室之旅
物理学研究生R. 斯泰森·雷杰(左)展示的是布罗迪·达金(中)和凯勒布 Smith, both freshmen at Rio Rancho High School, how lightning can be mapped in three dimensions.  The Physics Department tour at Workman Center was one of many academic department tours students participated in during Research@Tech Day Feb. 20 at New Mexico Tech.

Students and their guests began the day hearing from a panel of students who described how they landed on-campus jobs, summer internships, and job offers from tech companies, national labs, and research organizations with the assistance of 威尼斯人app下载 faculty, 教职员及校友. 

电气工程示范
Dr. Rene Arechiga, left, associate professor and Electrical Engineering Department chair, chats with Wyatt Hickman, center, and his father, Chris Hickman, right, of Albuquerque. The Hickmans joined other students and their families watching a presentation 关于一个旨在提高矿山安全的国家研究项目. 威尼斯人app下载 and a handful of other universities received a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to design robotic systems, including drones and robots, and temporary wireless underground communication systems to assist first responders 在矿井塌方和火灾中. 

Katie Neal, a senior pursuing a civil 工程学位, described her capstone assignment – a research and design project building a concrete canoe her team will race against 4月其他大学.

“There’s lots of opportunities for hands-on experience,” she said. 

Gloria和Angelica Serrano
格洛丽亚·塞拉诺,左,圣. 圣达菲的迈克尔高中希望 to study chemistry, biology, and chemical engineering at 威尼斯人app下载. Her mother, Angelica Serrano, right, is a 威尼斯人app下载 alum with a degree in electrical engineering. “这是一所很棒的学校,”安吉莉卡·塞拉诺(Angelica Serrano)这样评价威尼斯人app下载. “我很感兴趣 看看她是怎么想的."

Neal told the audience she landed an internship at PNM electric utility last summer after attending NMT’s job fair, which featured practice interviews, resume advice, 还有一个衣橱. 她还建议威尼斯人app下载加入一个俱乐部来认识其他人 谁有共同的兴趣并能提供指导.

“Clubs were my really good way of meeting people outside classes,” she said. 

洛伦·蔡斯和蒂亚·霍华德
Loren Chase, left, and his girlfriend, Tia Howard, both of Gallup, visited Socorro 2月2日第一次. 20美元Research@Tech日. 蔡斯正计划从 the University of New Mexico and study civil engineering like his father. Chase said an engineer at his workplace recommended 威尼斯人app下载 to him for its small class 规模和与教师的互动.

High school students toured NMT’s departments, learning about cutting-edge research projects from both undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members. They watched demonstrations, checked out lab equipment, and viewed research presentation posters. Students and their guests also toured a drone room and on-campus housing, watched a robotics demonstration, learned about clubs and organizations, and got their admissions 经济援助的问题也得到了解答. 

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