Students Explore Research Opportunities at New Mexico Tech
Feb. 20, 2023
Research@Tech Day offers high school students a preview of academic life
![katie-neal Anita Montoya, Katie Neal, Livia De Viterbo](/news/2023/katie-neal.jpg)
SOCORRO, N.M. – Prospective students hoping to turn college experience into a career in industry, government, a lab, or continue their education in graduate school explored their abundant options at a showcase of student research on the New Mexico Tech campus. More than 250 students and over 200 of their parents and guardians attended Research@Tech Day Feb. 20, 2023, to learn more about the university’s hands-on research projects in science, technology, engineering, math, and other fields.
![physics-lab Physics lab tour](/news/2023/physics-lab.jpg)
Students and their guests began the day hearing from a panel of students who described how they landed on-campus jobs, summer internships, and job offers from tech companies, national labs, and research organizations with the assistance of New Mexico Tech faculty, staff, and alumni.
![electrical-engineering Electrical Engineering demonstration](/news/2023/electrical-engineering.jpg)
Katie Neal, a senior pursuing a civil engineering degree, described her capstone assignment – a research and design project building a concrete canoe her team will race against other universities in April.
“There’s lots of opportunities for hands-on experience,” she said.
![Gloria and Angelica Serrano](/news/2023/gloria-angelica.jpg)
Neal told the audience she landed an internship at PNM electric utility last summer after attending NMT’s job fair, which featured practice interviews, resume advice, and a clothes closet. She also advised future students to join a club to meet others who share interests and can provide mentoring.
“Clubs were my really good way of meeting people outside classes,” she said.
![loren-chase Loren Chase and Tia Howard](/news/2023/loren-chase.jpg)
High school students toured NMT’s departments, learning about cutting-edge research projects from both undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members. They watched demonstrations, checked out lab equipment, and viewed research presentation posters. Students and their guests also toured a drone room and on-campus housing, watched a robotics demonstration, learned about clubs and organizations, and got their admissions and financial aid questions answered.
More information about admissions is available on the New Mexico Tech website: zyjhmm.com/admission