The MESA family has lost a pioneer in the engineering education space with the passing of Raymond B Landis. In the early 1970s while a California State University, Northridge professor, Landis began developing the framework for an academic support program targeting minority engineering undergraduate students. His Minority Engineering Program became the model for MESA’s undergraduate […]
Month: August 2018
Stars Align for MESA Alum
Things keep looking up (way up) for MESA alumnus Victor Glover. NASA announced this month Glover is one of the crew set to fly on SpaceX and Boeing spaceships. These will be the first major flights on commercial craft by NASA astronauts and the first time astronauts have traveled to space from American ground since […]
Oracle Opens Door to Computer Science Careers
Oracle continues to expose students to computer science skills and careers through its longtime relationship with MESA. This summer MESA conducted 4 JAVA programming camps at UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Imperial Valley thanks to a generous grant from Oracle. Students learned the basics of JAVA and put their newfound knowledge to use […]