Monday, October 22, 2012 // Issue 32, Volume 78 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Women build monetary muscle
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Alfred Mendez Contributing writer
To improve financial literacy among women in the Houston area, the C.T. Bauer College of Business hosted the second annual “Financial Boot Camp for Women” on Saturday. Sponsored by investment management company Invesco, the event was held in Cemo Hall and featured various professionals, intended to educate attendees on topics such as investing, budgeting and insurance. “We all need to make smarter financial decisions. Women live longer than men do, and what typically happens is that many women end up earning less than men do, so you have less money, but you got to stretch it further into retirement,” said coordinator Janice Cellier, Invesco divisional sales director. Bauer Dean Latha Ramchand addressed the women briefly during commencement speech and urged them to be more financially responsible and highlighted education as the most valuable asset
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Participants and presenters listen for their numbers as gift items were raffled off during the event. | Rebekah Stearns /The Daily Cougar one can have. “This whole issue of financial education for women — I think this is so important, and I think so much needs to be done,” Ramchand said. “The only thing that is going to last is knowledge, and knowledge in this sense is the only
source of power in this world.” The boot camp was organized into a series of breakout sessions where women decided which financial areas they would most like to concentrate on and included a working lunch. “I really enjoyed the format
of the camp — being able to pick where I wanted to be. They had knowledgeable speakers, and I feel I can really walk away from here knowing I learned a lot,” said kinesiology senior Quyen Ho.
Subsea engineering program starts up Staff writer
UH is now offering the nation’s first subsea engineering master’s program. The program is internationally fifth, but Director Matthew Franchek places its value as first because of the interdisciplinary way administrative, industrial and educational leaders come together to form the program. According to Franchek, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the program in September. The program branched out to include industry professionals like Randy Wester at FMC technologies who — as early as 2009 — pushed for a curriculum specifically designed for subsea engineering. “There are billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas located in the Gulf of Mexico alone,” Franchek said. “With this
program, we can partner with the industry to educate the existing workforce and to create next-generation subsea engineering technologies that can safely and economically produce offshore oil and gas.” After approval by the dean, measures were taken to build the program to accommodate a curriculum. Paul Jukes, president of MCS Kenny in Houston, wrote the first book about subsea engineering that is used in corresponding courses worldwide. The amount of interdisciplinary cooperation and the readiness UH and the state embraced the new program with makes it one that extends beyond the University, Franchek said. “What this means is that students are working directly with industry professionals and leaders in the field on a daily basis. Not only are we educating a new workforce, students are making invaluable network
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TOMORROW UH shuttles to polls, denied early voting locations The subsea deep sea well model students will be using is being housed in Building 14 in Energy Research Park. | Hannah Laamoumi/The Daily Cougar connections,” Franchek said. “This is a beyond Tier One effort. (The program) graduated 13 students with certificates in advanced subsea education and now has over 70
students in the program while there are over 300 students involved in petroleum engineering programs.” news@thedailycougar.com
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