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College Internships Provide Valuable Clean Tech Experience
Vista, California, August 31, 2009 — The interest in clean technology and environmental sustainability has never been higher, and in an effort to provide insights into professional careers, Assure Controls proactively offered part-time internships to college level students in a various positions. One internship was part of the National Institutes of Health, college summer education programs for biology and engineering career development. Other internships were created via cooperation with student services of local colleges and universities. Three of the internships were via job postings made by Assure Controls. Each internship had a formal application and interview process; and after acceptance, safety training, orientation to internal procedures, and then specific job task assignments. Each intern had an appointed point of contact within the company for coordination of work hours, work flow, task completion, and evaluation of work products.
In exchange for valuable on the job training and corporate experience, each intern committed to over eighty hours of work assignments that were arranged within flexible hours over a two month period. The work assignments and projects included laboratory experiments, laboratory maintenance, cell culture work, biological test kit production procedure improvements, inventory preparations, rapid water quality technologies assessment, marketing research, complimentary technologies assessment, review and catalogue of environmental QAAP procedures, and creation of web-delivered external education and training segments and a library of complimentary references and resources.
The interns were from University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, California State University, San Marcos; Mira Costa Community College. Their fields of studies included biology, chemistry, environmental sustainability practices, and internet technologies.
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