Engineering-Day

Shally Saraf, engineering Science professor, is organizing two half-day outreach efforts for local high schools.

This “Engineering-Day” is part of a wide ranging Cal-PASS (California Partnership for Achieving Student Success) effort to track and increase K-12 student interest in science and technology, as well as other disciplines. (For more information on Cal-Pass, visit the Cal-Pass website.)

Two groups of approximately fifty high school students each will arrive in the Engineering Science department on Fri., Feb. 27 at 1 p.m. and on Sat., Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. The students will visit the Engineering Science laboratories, and get hands-on opportunities with specially designed setups in electronics, networks, lasers and optics.

It is hoped that the lab visits and talks by Saraf on the importance and excitement of engineering as a profession, will stoke the interest of these students to pursue a career in science and technology.

Undergraduates students will also be sharing their perspectives, concerning their motivation for studying engineering and about their experiences in the SSU Engineering Science program.

The university community is encouraged to stop by and take a look at the laboratories and the setups in Salazar Hall.

WORKPLACE


CASE Online Speaker Series Webinar

The CASE Online Speaker Series, hosted by SSU Alumni Relations, presents the "Alumni and Student Career Services: New Ways to Create Institutional Value in Troubled Economic Times" Webinar.

The presenter is Sheila J. Curran, Career Strategy Consultant for Curran Careers Consulting and former Executive Director of the Duke University Career Center. The seminar also includes an interview with Mike Sciola, director of the Career Resource Center at Wesleyan University, and one of the leaders in the alumni and student career services field.

Learn how building a career community can help to brand institutions, promote alumni engagement, and encourage financial support.

The webinar is open to all, and Alumni Relations encourages everyone to attend as a guest on Thurs., March 5 from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m. in Stevenson 1034. Please RSVP to michelle.covington@sonoma.edu.

Effective Assignment Design Workshop

Learn how to improve student writing though designing better assignments. This workshop will cover strategies for creating writing assignments appropriate for the courses and disciplines of the workshop attendees.

Participants will gain a clearer sense of options in assigning writing, ideas for at least one new writing assignment for a course they teach, and resources to continue to develop writing assignments that will engage students as learners and provide them with strategies to succeed as writers.

This workshop is presented by Melinda Milligan, sociology and Center for Teaching and Professional Development (CTPD) Faculty Associate, and Scott Miller, Writing Center Director.

To sign up, register on the CTPD website. Go to the Upcoming Workshops column on the right, look for Effective Assignment Design and click “Register.”

For more information, contact Melinda Milligan at melinda.milligan@sonoma.edu or Scott Miller at millersc@sonoma.edu.

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