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that many reported working non­
stop until sunrise," said Gregg
Meyer, a PCC civil and me­
chanical engineering instructor.
Erica Lipski, 18, is an incom­
ing PCC student from Sunset
High School in Beaverton who
counts herself as one of those
excited students. Lipski is in that
demographic that Intel wants to
encourage to keep going with
of engineers hinders innovation
and competitiveness in the glo­
bal economy and threatens the
ability to create and keep high-
tech jobs in the U.S. The Intel
Ultimate Engineering Experience
is part of the com pany's ex­
panded engineering internship
program to reach that 40 per­
cent before they decide to leave
the engineering field of study.
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It's giving me a broad spectrum
o f what to expect fo r the different
fields that I want to pursue.
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-- Erica Lipski
STEM-focused studies. She is
testing the waters o f various
engineering fields and her inter­
ests rest in robotics. When she
was in the seventh grade she
was on the first all-girl team that
won Intel's state robotics cham ­
pionship and advanced to the
world competition.
"It's giving me a broad spec­
trum of what to expect for the
different fields that I want to
pursue," Lipski said. "I want to
pursue robotics, but these past
two weeks when we did pro­
gramming; it's gotten me into
gaming."
According to Intel, 40 percent
of U.S. students leave engineer­
ing or change majors after the
first year of college. A shortage
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second-year computer science
m ajor at the Sylvania Campus.
"(The Experience) gives you
skills and a metric to decide what
to work on and see where you
are in the process. It's giving me
a focus, a boost and a lot of
different perspectives."
PCC's partnering with Intel is
nothing new. The two have a
longstanding partnership that has
developed the college's Micro­
electronics Technology Program,
which was bom 20 years ago out
of Intel's need for highly trained
manufacturing technicians that
could be educated and hired lo­
cally. To date, hundreds of PCC
graduates, produced by many of
the college's technical programs,
are filling that need for Intel.
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