Career Development at MCAA

Career Development Committee Announces
2009 Student Internship Grants

MCAA's Career Development Committee, which oversees the student chapter program, has announced the availability of Student Internship Grants. Funded by the Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation (MCERF), the grants are designed to encourage MCAA contractor members and Manufacturer/Supplier Council members to hire college students as interns. The grants help defray the cost of the intern's salary. Only one grant can be awarded to a company, and priority will be given to contractors who hire current members of MCAA student chapters. Grant requests are due to MCAA by May 15. For more information, please go to http://www.mcaa.org/careers/grants/.

The MCAA Student Chapter at Northeastern University Wins MCAA’s 2008–2009 Student Chapter Competition

Congratulations to the MCAA Student Chapter at Northeastern University, which took first prize in MCAA’s 2008–2009 Student Chapter Competition. The competition results were revealed during the MCAA Awards of Excellence Breakfast at the MCAA2009 annual convention in Scottsdale, AZ. The University of Washington Mechanical Contractors Student Chapter took second place. During the competition, 28 student chapter teams prepared proposals for a build-and-spec project—a 73,000-square-foot, two-story hospital in northern California owned by the Howard family (owners of the world-famous racehorse Sea Biscuit)—a departure from the design-build projects of previous competitions. Read Press Release

Want to See the 2008-2009 Project?
Here Are the Documents the Students Used in the Competition

All documents are provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Questions? Please contact Ann Mattheis at amattheis@mcaa.org.

Chapter of the Year and Educator of the Year Awarded at MCAA2009

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MCAA Joins ACE Mentor Program

MCAA has become a national board of directors member of the ACE Mentor Program, a national program that introduces and educates high school students about the construction industry and the career opportunities that it offers. Founded in 1994 by Charles H. Thornton, world-renowned structural engineer and co-owner of New York-based Thornton Tomasetti, Inc., ACE Mentor reaches into urban high schools and matches teams of interested students with mentors from the architecture, construction and engineering industries (hence, the name ACE) who expose the students to the building industry through regular after-school meetings, visits to their offices and project sites, and competitions. ACE encourages qualified students to further their education in college or technical schools and offers scholarships to help them. MCAA’s student chapter program is uniquely positioned to further its own and ACE Mentor’s goals by matching mentors from MCAA student chapters with nearby ACE high schools. MCAA and ACE are already making plans to develop and test a model for this program over the next year. For more information about ACE, please contact Dennis Langley at dlangley@mcaa.org, Ann Mattheis at amattheis@mcaa.org or ACE Mentor executive director Pamela Mullender at pmullender@acementor.org.

MCAA's Careers Website Is for YOU!

  • An MCAA/MSCA/PCA contractor . . .
    looking for talented, well-educated college graduates to fill summer internship positions
  • A local MCAA affiliate representative . . .
    trying to interest and involve young people in the specialty trades industry
  • The college professor or instructor . . .
    looking for information and/or ideas to enhance a mechanical engineering course, curriculum, or program

This is where you'll get the latest news about MCAA student chapters across the U.S., information about establishing a new chapter, and great ideas about how to keep an existing program vital, relevant, and exciting. Check our list of contacts for contractors, faculty advisors and students who will share their chapter ideas, experiences, and success stories.

This is where prospective student interns and prospective employers can meet. We've created a special page where MCAA contractors in the mechanical, service, and plumbing business can post their company's available internship opportunities. It's easy for contractors to use and even easier for students to find just the right intern position.

This is where you'll find Career Development tools and resources to help you recruit the most talented, well-educated young people into your business.

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MCAA’s student chapter program gives students the opportunity to learn about the industry by attending regular meetings with their MCAA local affiliate sponsors, taking field trips to a variety of jobsites and facilities, working together on volunteer projects, participating in fundraising events, and more. Start your own student chapter today.



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