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With us today from the Federal Aviation Administration
is Dr. Carlos Manduley.
He is the senior advisor for educational partnerships.
Carlos.
Good morning, how are you?
My name is Carlos Manduley.
I’m with the FAA.
I’m the only presentation this morning that’s not from the engineering point of view.
However, I work very closely with schools of engineering
and colleges of aviation throughout the country.
As the senior advisor for educational partnerships and the office of civil rights,
we work with all the different schools
and minority serving institutions throughout the
country trying to attract more young people to come into the FAA work force.
And here we have a booth as well, I wanted to let you know, with internships
and mentorship opportunities for students.
So I'll tell you more about that in a moment.
First of all,
what is the significance of national engineers today in our nation’s schools?
Well, it’s important for DOT to do this,
to raise public awareness of the relevance
of engineering and technology in our daily lives
and to encourage young people
and college students to consider careers in engineering and technology.
Students interested in engineering
should get preparation tips and advice from
their counselors and science and technology teachers in their schools and colleges.
They also should select a variety of science,
mathematics and engineering related course work
and participate in engineering programs and
projects you can get an edge in your engineering careers.
Young people in middle school and high schools
as well as college and university students are truly the future of the nation.
Right now at FAA
we have a school working with us together with University of
Maryland at College Park
and this school is from Prince George’s County
and we have four students working with FAA in air traffic organization.
We have mentors working with them and they are there for the last six months.
They are doing a wonderful job.
I’d like to see more schools like your schools
to come out to the FAA and do similar things as well.
In order to promote the vital contribution that engineers make
to our society for the long term,
those young people and technology and the students are crucial to reach.
What is the team that I’m in?
The National EO Outreach Team.
We ensure that all members of society have equal access
to programs and projects
that may lead to future career employment
and advancement opportunities at the FAA.
We achieve this through an emphasis on internal and external outreach.
I was just mentioning to you,
consultation, collaboration and education.
So we reach out
to minority service institutions.
We are working with some high schools, with
senior high schools, technical schools and so forth.
This last January I was
actually took part in an educational assessment program
that we did at El Paso,
Texas whereby the FAA has, instead of school,
what we call Collegiate Training Initiative Schools
and it was a school that is a 2-year community college.
It was very rigorous and it passed all the different qualifications.
And that college was the Western Technical College in El Paso.
Passed with flying colors, and we now have a new
Collegiate Training Initiative school passed from that part of Texas
so I’m very please that I was a part of that evaluation as well.
So, that's one thing.
Going to the FAA right now. What is our mission?
You’ve been hearing about safety for all the different operating administrations.
Yes we’re also, we like to provide the safest,
most efficient aerospace system in the world.
What is our mission?
We continue to improve the safety and efficiency of flight.
We are responsive to our customers
and are accountable to the taxpayer and the flying public.
The FAA operates the world’s largest aviation system.
The FAA is a 49,000-person government agency
that runs the largest air traffic network in the world.
So what are some of our FAA careers so-called?
Some of them include the air traffic control,
aviation safety, electronics, engineering,
information technology and many, many
other professional opportunities that we offer.
>From there I should mention a little bit
about our national aerospace system and what does that do in terms of our work.
The daily demand in our national aerospace system
exceeds 50,000 flights a day.
Peak can approach 6,000 flights during rush hour
and demand for air traffic control services is forecast to increasing.
The FAA is a great workplace for engineers.
We have computer, civil, aerospace, you name it,
we have them and it’s increasing our numbers as well.
Safety and efficiency, that’s one area that we’d like to push more all the time.
You hear it all the time, keeping pace with technology,
we’re doing it through next gen
and we need to do a lot more and we keep on asking Congress
to give us some assistance in this area.
Hopefully after April 8th.
Aside from that, trying to modernize of traffic control system is another area that
we are trying to keep up throughout the years
and all throughout the country as well, so it’s a nation-wide effort.
Working with industry and working with higher education is very important to us.
Education is a very important part of what
we’re doing in terms of the FAA working
with the schools and the outreach that
we do as well.
The other area is fuel-efficient solutions,
environmental stewardships and lastly,
to find out more about the FAA and
outstanding career opportunities and benefits,
we urge you to visit our career website at http://www.faa.gov/jobs.
For students interested to learn more about
aviation and space education programs
which we work very closely with them,
which is called ABSED and ACE,
which is a summer program for air traffic control academy in the summer,
please contact Mr. James Brough in Boston
at that email address, www.jamesbrough@faa.gov
or you can contact me.
Thank you.
Don’t forget to stop in our booth here for FAA and learn more about our career opportunities.
Thank you very much for inviting us.