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ACADEMICStrip continued to push students andtake them out of their comfort zones.Several students were even hired towork in China as a direct result ofour visit to these firms.” (See story,next page).Students met executives, managersand workers while visitingthe offices and factories of a numberof small, medium and multinationalfirms, including Adora Jewelers,Cinevistaas Studios, Genpact,Google, Hip Fung Electronics,Indian Institute of Packaging,Lenovo, Nokia, Ogilvy and Mather,Parsvanath Developers, Plantronics,Portola Packaging Company, PositecMachinery, Subway, Inc., SuzhouIndustrial Park, Times of India,United Family Hospitals of Beijing,United Foundation for ChineseOrphans, Wockhardt Hospitals, andYangshan Deep Water Port.During their travels, whichincluded visits to Shanghai, Beijing,Suzhou, New Delhi, Agra andMumbai, the group also met with adocumentary filmmaker whoselatest release is a film on theBeijing Olympics, a graphic communicationand marketing entrepreneur,several sustainable tourism entrepreneurs,and an expatriate running anonprofit organization in China thatassists rural schools in developingtheir libraries.“Through these visits to firms,coupled with our off time, we wereable to touch on virtually every facetof our M.S. in Industrial Technologyprogram,” said M.S. in IndustrialTechnology student Steve Munio,now a supply chain agent at ViaSatInc. in Carlsbad. “The MBA studentsfelt the same way with respect totheir curriculum.”MBA student William Jenckssaid the trip and course offered anincredibly valuable experience.“They provided both insightsinto the global economy and strategicnetworking opportunities that Iwill be able to utilize for the rest ofmy career,” said Jencks, now anarchitectural designer in San Diego.“It was a truly one-of-a-kind journeythat was made possible by theremarkable network and logisticscontrol and planning of the Orfaleaadministration, and our host companiesin Asia.”At the Taj Mahal,Agra, India (above,from left): BrandiEng-Rohrbach,Robyn Bowie,Naomi Guy, AshleyDrum, Tai Massion,Dena Malloy andAndrea GreenleeTaking in the sightson a side trip toYuYuan Gardensand Temple inChina (left)Students posted a day-by-dayaccount of their MBA “Chindia” tripon the trip blog that Professor Carrutilizes for the course and trip. Thejournal entries – postings starting inmid-June 2008 and continuingthrough early July 2008 – can beviewed at www.calpolymbatrip.com.ORFALEA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ❚ 27