May 24, 2005
Three Del Mar College Students Interning This Summer at Zyvex
Corporation as Part of Nanotechnology Workforce Development Initiative
In January, Texas Gov. Rick Perry awarded a $500,000 grant to Texas State Technical
College- Waco (TSTC) to launch the Nanotechnology Workforce Development Initiative
to encourage college students to pursue careers in nanotechnology. Funded through
the federal Wagner-Peyser Act and administered by the Texas Workforce Commission,
the initiative also includes giving students who attend partner institutions
the opportunity to intern with a nanotechnology facility.
Del Mar College is one of those partners.
The partnership also includes Baylor University and the Zyvex Corporation–
the industry’s commercialization leader that focuses on supplying tools,
products and services that enable adaptable, affordable and molecularly precise
manufacturing.
This summer, three Del Mar students are interning with the Zyvex Corporation,
which is based in Richardson, Tx. Jacob Hanson, a chemistry and mathematics
major, James Mejia, a mathematics and mechanical engineering, and Efrain Ramirez,
a chemistry and chemical engineering major, will complete paid internships and
work along side top scientists and inventors as part of the initiative.
In simple terms, nanotechnology allows manufacturers to manipulate and improve
products at the molecular level. The technology, or nanotechnology, lends itself
not only to consumer products but also to areas of aerospace and defense, health
care and medical developments, semiconductors and telecommunications.
For a full copy of the news release announcing the Nanotechnology Workforce
Development Initiative and the College’s partnership with TSTC, Baylor
University and Zyvex, go to www.delmar.edu/news/nanotechnology011905.html.
For further information about the internships or the initiative, contact: Laura
Parr, Coordinator National Science Foundation Computer Science, Engineering
and Mathematics Scholarships, at 361/698-1599 or lparr@delmar.edu
or Dr. Lee Sloan, Dean of the Division of Occupational Education and Technology,
at 361/698-1700 or lsloan@delmar.edu.
-DMC-mce