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wednesday december
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2013
Raleigh, North Carolina
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N.C. State starts engineering and business program Sasha Afanasieva Staff Writer
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When Red Hat moved to its downtown location, graduates from N.C. State and other schools in the Triangle helped fill empty positions.
Recruiting of N.C. State graduates up from past years at Triangle businesses Jess Thomas Staff Writer
A number of well-known companies are consistently recruiting students from programs at N.C. State. Leslie Rand-Pickett, a career counselor at N.C. State, said companies from the Triangle area, as well as nationally-recognized companies, are recruiting more students from N.C. State compared with previous years.
“Companies from the West Coast also recruit from N.C. State, such as Microsoft, Google and Intel, even though they aren’t located in the Triangle,” RandPickett said. Rand-Pickett also said companies such as IBM, Cisco and SAS have locations in the Triangle area and have historically recruited from N.C. State. According to Rand-Pickett, after the engineering career fair earlier this semester the N.C. State interview suite
exceeded capacity during almost the entire month of October. “Overall, I would say that it’s not a new concept for high-profile tech companies to come to N.C. State,” RandPickett said. “It’s been a tradition because of the high quality of the technical students our university produces.” However, more companies from the
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The College of Engineering and the Poole College of Management at N.C. State united for the first time to offer a new graduate program hoping to bring business management to engineering. The master of supply chain engineering and management program is a 10-month-long graduate program aimed at students who just graduated or plan to graduate soon. The idea for the program was introduced in 2008 when the former CEO of Caterpillar, James Owens, donated $2.2 million to the College of Management with the intent of expanding the supply chain emphasis at N.C. State. “There are programs that have supply chain concentrations in engineering and management but there was nothing that bridged the gap between the two,” said Russell King, co-director of the program and a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at N.C. State. Supply chain management emphasizes the movements of goods from suppliers to retailers, including storage of raw materials and how goods get from their original point to the hands of the consumer. “That’s kind of where there has been a gap. In the industrial systems, we teach students supply chain man-
agement, but they don’t have the business acumen to see the bigger picture,” King said. “On the businesses side, they have a bigger picture but not the quantitative engineering skills. We want people who have a sense of what it’s all about as well as the technical skills.” Donald Warsing, co-director of the program and an associate professor of operations and supply chain management at N.C. State, said what the new program hopes to accomplish. “We are specifically targeting engineering and science students,” Warsing said. “The idea of the degree is that someone with a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline can then extend their technical training and at the same time develop business skills in that area, specifically supply chain management.” Caterpillar, a machine manufacturer on the Standard and Poor’s 500 list, a stock market index, proposed the idea for the program. “I think anytime that you have industry coming to the University and requesting a degree, it’s always exciting. You know it’s something that they want and that’s kind of exciting to the universities to respond to those needs and deliver the programs that are of value,” King said. Supply chain management is one of the fastest growing fields with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting about
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N.C. State Wind Ensemble changes playlist for the holidays Madeline Safrit Staff Writer
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Paul Garcia, Director of Bands, leads the North Carolina State Wind Ensemble in playing classic winter tunes during the Holiday Concert. The concert, featured classics such as “Greensleeves” and “Sleigh Ride” and was held in Titmus Theatre Tuesday.
The Titmus Theatre resonated with the sounds of N.C. State’s Wind Ensemble as it played several holiday classics and other musical selections Tuesday night. According to director of the ensemble, Paul Garcia, the annual Wind Ensemble’s Holiday Concert was an opportunity for the group of 54 student musicians to display some of the pieces they have worked on over the course of the semester. In its entirety, the Wind Ensemble is comprised of many different sections fea-
turing percussion, f lutes, horns, bassoons, clarinets and trombones, among others. Randall Rehfuss, the concert coordinator, has been working for three years to plan events such as the Wind Ensemble’s Holiday Concert. “When I graduated [from N.C. State] in 2011, this position opened up and I applied,” Rehfuss said. “I was a very active choral student in the music department when I was an undergraduate.” Rehfuss said he has enjoyed coming back to N.C. State as a staff member and
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Search for Hispanic Student Affairs director enters second phase Staff Report Administrators said they have narrowed down the search for a new assistant director of Hispanic Student Affairs after a two-month
search. According to Director of Multicultural Student Affairs Rod Bradley, the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity has entered the second phase of the hiring process where candidates
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can meet with students and faculty members. Students have the opportunity to meet with the candidates everyday through Dec. 5. The open forums will be held from 2-2:45 p.m. and students-only sessions will
take place 2:45-3:15 p.m. Both meetings will take place in Witherspoon Student Center room 356. Students are welcome to attend a portion of these meetings where they can simply “drop-in” as their schedules
allow, Bradley said. Students are invited to hear the candidate presentations, ask questions and provide feedback. Résumés and evaluations for candidates will be available to students prior to each meeting.
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The search began when the former HSA assistant director, Abraham Dones, left N.C. State earlier this semester. University administrators were not legally obligated to
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