{"id":1024,"date":"2008-08-30T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:32","slug":"capital-markets-lab-offers-unique-ambiance-and-opportunity-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2008\/08\/capital-markets-lab-offers-unique-ambiance-and-opportunity-for-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Markets Lab offers unique ambiance and opportunity for learning."},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2,200 square-foot Capital Markets Lab (CML) in the new College of Business Administration complex hums with action and exudes the aura of a bustling start-up. Since January, 2008, when classes began there, the area\u2014animated by a curving 66-foot long, real-time stock quote ticker like those in brokerage firms years ago and an array of workstations sporting the leading financial software, including a Bloomberg terminal\u2014has provided a high-powered atmosphere for hands-on learning.<\/p>\n

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No one experiences that more than the six students who are earning three elective credits for learning the software, teaching others, and helping maintain the lab twelve hours per week each.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoyce J. Elam<\/strong>, executive dean, suggested using students in the lab and it\u2019s been great,\u201d said the lab\u2019s director, Helen K. Simon<\/strong>, instructor, Department of Finance and Real Estate. \u201cTheir r\u00e9sum\u00e9s will benefit because of their expertise in financial applications. They\u2019re helping others. And this first group is learning how a small business runs because they are getting in at the beginning and their ideas are helping create our policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nFrom left to right: Michael Castell<\/strong>, Miriam Lam,<\/strong> and Jonathan Nejad<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Carefully chosen for their academic strengths, their motivation, and how well they interact with the staff, each intern must gain proficiency in all the software while also learning one or two software programs in depth so they can educate their peers and the staff.<\/p>\n

Interns value experience and Simon hopes to expand it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Three senior finance majors laud their internships.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Nejad<\/strong>, who \u201cloves stocks\u201d and has started his own investment company, is learning Crystal Ball and @Risk, and enjoys answering questions because \u201cI realize I am learning the software,\u201d while Michael Castell<\/strong>, describes the technology in the lab as \u201camazing,\u201d and finds this job \u201cenables me to grow as a person and as a student.\u201d As Miriam Lam<\/strong> masters Salesforce.com, a customer relationship management (CRM) program, she appreciates that \u201cI learn something new every day, meet new people, and get to integrate the knowledge I already have with what I am learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simon hopes the lab, already popular within the business school, also will became a magnet for the local finance community\u2014one of the intended beneficiaries of the students\u2019 expanded knowledge\u2014through business leaders presenting guest lectures, offering internships, or even making donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Miriam Lam<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nJonathan Nejad<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe way we are preparing all our finance students to tie together theories and practice is the difference between a piece of coal and something that\u2019s on its way to becoming a diamond. Like that diamond, they\u2019ll be very valuable,\u201d said Simon, who can be reached at 305-348-1552.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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