{"id":185383,"date":"2023-10-20T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T01:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=185383"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T01:52:35","slug":"mechanical-engineering-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/20\/mechanical-engineering-pathway\/","title":{"rendered":"New mechanical engineering pathway benefits shipyards on O\u02bbahu, Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Professor Marvin Young meeting with University of Guam engineering students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa mechanical engineering<\/a> students who are originally from Guam are thriving in a new collaborative program that will set them on a career pathway in the shipyard industry in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Guam.<\/p>\n

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Darryl Dela Cruz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Introduced a year ago, the partnership between UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, University of Guam and the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNSY<\/abbr>) was created to address a mechanical engineering shortfall at maintenance facilities in Guam and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. It provides a pathway for University of Guam students who successfully complete their first two years in engineering in Guam to transfer to UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa and enroll in the mechanical engineering program. Upon graduation, these students can be hired by PHNSY<\/abbr>, and after 2–3 years of gaining shipyard knowledge\/experience, either remain at PHNSY<\/abbr> or transfer back home to the Guam maintenance facility.<\/p>\n

Darryl Dela Cruz, a UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa junior from Guam, was the program\u2019s first participant. He said he was excited to study mechanical engineering as the University of Guam does not offer a mechanical engineering program.<\/p>\n

“The program has introduced me to a few of the representatives at the shipyard, and I’ve had great pleasure in meeting with them. I hope to be a part of their co-op and\/or internship next year,” Dela Cruz said. “After graduation, I ultimately intend to go back home and be with my family. But before I can work in Guam, I would spend a few more years here working at the PHNSY<\/abbr> and learning enough to be serviceable when I go back. In the end, I’d like to see myself in a stable position encouraging others who have an intrinsic curiosity for math and science to seek similar opportunities.”<\/p>\n

Continuing partnership<\/h2>\n
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Young and Cliff Imamura meet with University of Guam President Anita Borja Enriquez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The program is led by UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Engineering Professor Marvin Young. He and Cliff Imamura, PHNSY<\/abbr> engineering manager, recently conducted several informational meetings with University of Guam engineering students to highlight the collaboration opportunity. They also met with Guam Lt<\/abbr>. Gov<\/abbr>. Josh Tenorio, University of Guam President Anita Borja Enriquez and Guam Community College President Mary A.Y. Okada to further strengthen the program.<\/p>\n

“UH<\/abbr> Guam students on the shipyard pathway are on track to graduate this coming spring and next fall with a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa,” Young said. “We expect several UH<\/abbr> and University of Guam transfer students to enter the shipyard pathway in the very near future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The program was created to address a mechanical engineering shortfall at maintenance facilities in Guam and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[179,182,1466,1496,9],"class_list":["post-185383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185393,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185383\/revisions\/185393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}