[379] AG, AEROSPACE STUDENTS AWAIT CAREER FAIRS

Release date: March 20, 2009


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
Career Development Center contact: Nicole Green, 615-494-8797 kngreen@mtsu.edu


AG, AEROSPACE STUDENTS AWAIT CAREER FAIRS
First agribusiness/agriscience fair will be March 25; aerospace fair is April 1

(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU aerospace and agribusiness and agriscience students are being encouraged to attend both departments’ upcoming career fairs.
The first-ever School of Agribusiness and Agriscience Career Fair will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, on the first floor of the Stark Ag Building.
The annual Aerospace Career Fair, one of the nation’s premier collegiate aviation career fairs, will be held from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in the aerospace lobby in Business and Aerospace Building.
Both career fairs are only for MTSU students, and professional attire is strongly encouraged, said Nicole Green, career coordinator for the College of Basic and Applied Sciences.
The Student Agriculture Council, agribusiness and agriscience faculty and staff and Career Development Center are serving as hosts of the ABAS Career Fair.
“Employers will be recruiting from all majors and concentrations for full-time, internship positions and graduate-school opportunities,” Green said, adding that employers and universities will be discussing graduate-degree programs as well as jobs.
Students should bring updated copies of their resume “and be ready to impress our visitors,” Green said.
Morning refreshments will be served, and pizza available for lunch.
The MTSU ag program has nearly 400 students in three majors: animal science, including horse science; plant science; and agribusiness.
Employers from across the aviation and aerospace industries will meet and greet students from the five aerospace concentrations — professional pilot, maintenance management, technology, administration and flight dispatch and scheduling.
“Our aerospace students eagerly anticipate this event and are rewarded by visits from air taxi operators; aviation maintenance providers; commercial-service and general aviation airports; mainline and regional airlines; corporate flight departments; manufacturers; fixed-base operators; local, state and federal agencies; and more,” Green said.
MTSU’s Department of Aerospace has more than 800 students enrolled in the five concentrations.
MTSU Future Airport Executives, a student chapter of the American Association of Airport Executives, is sponsoring the event with the MTSU Department of Aerospace.
All aerospace students are encouraged to attend and learn more about positions in the industry, Green said.
For more information, visit http://career.web.mtsu.edu/.


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