HIGH POINT, N.C., July 18, 2011 – Naomi Ehrens, a rising sophomore at High Point University, is gaining practical business experience by spending her summer interning for Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) in Needham, Mass.
Ehrens, a business administration major, is assisting PTC customers with understanding and utilizing PTC’s software. Ehrens’ responsibilities include establishing accounts for clients, such as John Deere, Motorola, Raytheon and Sony, which use PTC’s software. In the past month Ehrens has created 500 customer accounts for a corporate event held in Las Vegas that brought in more than 2,000 customers and PTC employees from across the globe.
Ehrens also views and edits tutorials that are designed to assist the customers using and operating PTC’s software. She performs testing of the LearningExchange site, where the tutorials are shown, to assure that everything is fully accessible to the customers.
“I am primarily looking to gain as much exposure into a real-world global company as possible,” Ehrens says. “In addition, I know this experience will prepare me for a full-time-career after graduation.”
Ehrens says her classes at HPU have challenged and enabled her to think outside the box and her professors have taught her a great deal about the communication and hard work it takes to perform at a high level.
At High Point University, every student receives an extraordinary education in an inspiring environment with caring people.℠ HPU, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a liberal arts institution with over 4,200 undergraduate and graduate students from 51 countries and 46 states at campuses in High Point and Winston-Salem. It is ranked by US News and World Report at No. 3 among Regional Colleges in the South. Forbes.com ranks HPU in the top 7 percent among “America’s Best Colleges.” Parade Magazine lists HPU in the top 25 private schools in the nation. The university offers 50 undergraduate majors, 43 undergraduate minors and 14 graduate degree programs. It is accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and is a member of the NCAA, Division I and the Big South Conference. Visit High Point University on the Web at highpoint.edu.
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Pam Haynes
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