Conference Session

Special programs and activities for minorities in engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Brown

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

discussion, current AALANA EE undergraduate students spoke abouttheir experiences as 1st Year Electrical Engineering majors and what their expectationswere about engineering at RIT versus the reality of their experiences. A Q/A session forthe North Star students followed afterwards.Presentation: “A Day in the Life at Intel”Ms. Aneita Gage, Technical Training Manager at Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ,facilitated a talk on what it’s like to work at Intel:The purpose of this presentation was to get ST@R students excited about their chosen EEdiscipline and gain exposure to individuals currently working in industry. Over 20students attended the program. Ms. Gage (see Figure 1) discussed her experiences as anemployee at Intel and what a young, newly