Sac State engineering students tops in U.S.
By Laurel Rosenhall
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Published: Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 11:37 am
A team of four Sacramento State students has won a national engineering competition, beating out teams from UC Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA.
Ariana Castillo, Manuel Ramirez, Felix Ortiz and Phillip Booker, all juniors at California State University, Sacramento, won first place in an academic competition held last week at the national gathering of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The first round of the competition involved a 50-question written test and had student chapters of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers compete with other chapters from their region. The Sac State team scored first place, beating teams from Stanford and UC Berkeley.
The second round involved a Jeopardy-style competition among the top teams from each region around the country. Sac State won that round, too, beating UCLA, University of Texas, Austin and University of Illinois, Chicago.
"It's awesome," said Joshua Iniguez, a Sac State student who is president of the school's chapter of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers. "It was a great boost in self esteem and pride in our school."
The team's advisor is Emir José Macari, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
By Laurel Rosenhall
[email protected]
Published: Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 - 11:37 am
A team of four Sacramento State students has won a national engineering competition, beating out teams from UC Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA.
Ariana Castillo, Manuel Ramirez, Felix Ortiz and Phillip Booker, all juniors at California State University, Sacramento, won first place in an academic competition held last week at the national gathering of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The first round of the competition involved a 50-question written test and had student chapters of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers compete with other chapters from their region. The Sac State team scored first place, beating teams from Stanford and UC Berkeley.
The second round involved a Jeopardy-style competition among the top teams from each region around the country. Sac State won that round, too, beating UCLA, University of Texas, Austin and University of Illinois, Chicago.
"It's awesome," said Joshua Iniguez, a Sac State student who is president of the school's chapter of the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers. "It was a great boost in self esteem and pride in our school."
The team's advisor is Emir José Macari, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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