The Industry Connection Series features interactive panels with mathematical scientists working in industry. The goal is to connect mathematical sciences students directly with industry members who can answer student-generated questions. Students at all levels are welcome and encouraged to attend and ask questions. 
 
The next event is Tuesday, February 20th at 3pm EST. Panelists will be Dakota Morehouse, Quality Control Technician at Pike Industries, and Carlos Petzold, Statistician at RTI International in North Carolina. They will be sharing the most up to date and relevant advice on what working in industry is like and how to search successfully.

Event address: Event is now closed. Thank you to all who attended!

Dakota Morehouse is a Quality Control Technician at Pike Industries, where she performs daily production and stockpile testing. Traveling throughout New Hampshire to various asphalt plants and quarries, sometimes working with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, she ensures that the products leaving each facility meet various specifications. Dakota realized early on that she did not want to work in academia, but did not know what options were available to her. It was only through an internship at Pike Industries that she realized how much fun she could have in the field in this industry. She received her BA in Mathematics and enjoys seeing fellow individuals from the STEM fields migrate towards industry careers.

Carlos Petzold is a Statistician at RTI International in North Carolina, where he performs quality control, code development, and statistical research tasks on multiple government survey projects. He uses SAS and R programming to ensure that the surveys are using the appropriate sampling and measurement techniques, and to also ensure that there are no errors or unexpected values from survey responses. His first introduction to industry was through an internship at the Center for Responsible Lending on their research team, where he worked to identify and investigate discriminatory lending practices by lenders across the US. This exposure to using statistics for research purposes was what led him to RTI, one of the largest non-profit research institutions in the RTP area. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Statistics from NC State University and enjoys tutoring math for K-12 students outside of work.

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The BIG Math Network is grateful for sponsorship by the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).