Students Tour Engineering Labs

Students Eddie Bowie of Hughesville, center, and Christopher Simmons of Marbury, left, learned about the the flight simulator from Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division program analyst Kenneth Abell during a tour of the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center engineering labs in California, MD.

Students at the College of Southern Maryland who are majoring in engineering took a tour of the class and lab facilities at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center in California recently, earning a first-hand look at where they can spend their junior and senior years as University of Maryland students.

CSM students get a number of benefits from a partnership with the A. James Clark School of Engineering at UMD, the Navy and SMHEC, including possible scholarships, summer internships, and employment with the Navy after earning their bachelor’s degrees.

“During the tour, current CSM students were able to see former CSM students hard at work, and former students gave advice on studying hard when they get accepted in the program,” Shadei Jones, CSM pre-engineering program coordinator, said. “It was refreshing to witness the students’ excitement in connecting what they were learning in the classroom to practical applications.”

For information on engineering partnership program, visit here.

SMHEC is at 44219 Airport Road in California, MD 20619; www.smhec.org; 301-737-2500.

CSM Students Earn Academic Team Honors

Four CSM students have achieved great things in academics, and will be recognized for that by earning team honors for All-Maryland Community College Academic. Mallory Haselberger of Waldorf, Stephanie Hayes of Marbury, Joseph Turner of Chaptico, and Robert Wilson of Hollywood were nominated by CSM President Dr. Brad M. Gottfried and Phi Theta Kappa advisers to the All-USA Academic Teams and recognized by the Maryland Council of Community College Presidents and the Maryland Association of Community Colleges.

These four students will attend the recognition ceremony at the Turf Valley Country Club in Ellicott City on May 4 and will be recognized at the CSM Honors Convocation reception May 18 at the La Plata campus.

For more information about CSM, visit www.csmd.edu.

To learn more about the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, visit their Leader Member page.