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2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Engineering fair draws thousands Companies have opportunities available for graduates Caroline Barfield Staff Writer
Wednesday’s engineering career fair proved to be a success, with nearly 3,000 engineers or soon-to-be engineers gathering at McKimmon Center by 2 p.m. According to the fair’s Web site, the fair is one of the largest in the country and brings students, as well as corporations, from all over the United States. Matthew Gebbie, a senior in chemical engineering, said some companies had come ready to give interviews and were hiring students on the spot. The fair, however, was not just for engineers this semester. Since the career fair for CHASS was cancelled, CHASS students were encouraged to attend Wednesday’s fair despite not being engineers. Elizabeth Moser, a senior in environmental engineering, said she thought it was a good opportunity, especially for CHASS students. “I think it’s great CHASS students were allowed to go,” she said. “It’s important to work with different employers and obtain different perspectives. I’m glad they had the opportunity and were able to establish contacts since their chance was cancelled.” Regardless of the additional non-engineers, the fair brought many opportunities for engineers seeking employment in the upcoming months. Nicholas D’Aiuto, a sophomore in civil engineering, went to the fair looking for an internship, but found a lot of people looking for the same thing.
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Baxter Stephenson, a junior in chemical engineering, speaks to a representative from an optical fiber company, Corning, Wednesday afternoon at the engineering career fair in the McKimmon Center. “This is a great opportunity to meet companies, and get to network with new companies,” Stephenson said.
“I’m looking for an internship with a company that deals with transportation, roadways or structures,” he said. “I talked to five or six companies, but they all told me to check back or that they would contact me
in March.” D’Aiuto said he was up against a lot of other people given the attendance. “There were a lot of people. The competition is probably high considering I’m only a
Atrium renovations delayed, Senate pursues solution Student Senate met with University Dining, Campus Enterprises to find solutions for renovation delay
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University Dining showcases campus chefs Culinary showcase features international foods
Nick Tran Representatives from the Student Senate met with Dan Adams, associate vice chancellor of Campus Enterprises, and Randy Lait, director of dining services, Jan. 29 to discuss a solution to the Atrium renovation delays which will affect students as little as possible. The Senate announced Jan. 27 the renovations to the Atrium, a component of the project to construct a new Talley Student Center, would be delayed at least one semester, now slated for completion by the spring 2011 semester. At the time, Senate President Kelli Rogers said she was frustrated the students’ expectations would not be met and discussions would be ongoing to find an adequate solution. Rogers attended the Jan. 29 meeting with Adams and Lait and said they discussed the reasons for the delays and the problems the renovations encountered. “They talked about their current plans,” she said. “They went over the timeline they now have and the steps they were taking to make sure students were affected as little as possible.” At the meeting, it was confirmed definitely the renovations would not be able to meet the original fall 2010 deadline. “We talked about why it would not be done by fall and we assessed where they were at now,” Rogers said. “The Atrium renovation is important for students, easy for them to get excited, and something they need. We want to makes sure students are impacted as little as possible by the delay.” The University Dining Web site has been updated with a report, released Jan. 29, detailing the projects intentions and what the plans are now.
sophomore.” Jacob Alley, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, also went in search of a co-op
about the showcase previously but will attend nonetheless. “I eat here [at Fountain] all the time so I’ll be coming, though I didn’t know Alanna Howard about this showcase. It sounds cool so News Editor it should be good food,” he said. Thursday, Fountain Dining Hall Lauren Norris, a sophomore in natwill holding an event to showcase the ural resources, said she really apprecibest dishes campus chefs have to offer. ated the variety of foods the University The annual Culinary Showcase al- is trying to offer, though she will not lows chefs to display their talents and be able to attend the showcase. allows students to sample various cui“I can’t make it but it sounds really sines from around good, and I wish this would happen the world. more often because This year’s theme I would love to stop is “Exotic Mediterby,” Norris said. ranean” food and “Mediterranean students will be able food sounds really to sample assorted Mediterranean yummy.” d i she s T hu rsd ay Accord ing to from 5:00 to 8:30 University Dining’s p.m. Featured foods Web site, each chef will include calamari has his own station salad, tuna carpaccio where he will preand seared scallops pare his dish and over lobster mashed students can stop potatoes. and find various Kendra Warren, a freshman in Kendra Warren, samplings of the environmental engineering a freshman in envicuisine. ronmental engineerBoth these speing, said she is excited for the show- ciality stations and the standard servcase and all the different foods being ing lines will serve the themed foods. Eric Hahn, a freshman in biologipresented. “I’ll definitely be there; I love all cal sciences, said he agreed with the food and this is a good time frame format of the showcase. for me to eat. It will be cool to try “I like that they are breaking up the something different,” she said monotony of the normal cafeteria Brent Coley, a freshman in mechanical engineering, said he didn’t know FOUNTAIN continued page 3
“I love all food and this is a good time frame for me to eat. It will be cool to try something different.”
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Sophomore in psychology Laurel Deluca buys a Chick-fil-a grilled chicken sandwich at the Atrium Tuesday, March 17, 2009. “There’s always a lot of people here– always a lot of people I know and that’s why I always come,” Deluca said.
In the report, released Jan. 29, Lait said “Though the original hope was to be able to renovate the space over one summer, we quickly found that the scope of the project would not allow that.” According to Lait in the report, the need for a new exhaust system, sprinkler system, restrooms, electrical switchgear, and heating and air systems is the main cause of the delay. The report includes a new timeline for the renovations which concludes in the Atrium opening at the beginning
of the fall 2011 semester. Marycobb Randall, student centers president, was also present at the Jan. 29 meeting and said the original timeline was just not practical and University Dining was forced to reevaluate the situation. “They’re going to continue to work to ensure solutions are acceptable,” she said. “Dining gave us background and reasons to reevaluate the timeline and afterwards
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