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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

the degree program currently seen related to the content beyond advanced technologies.being developed at TAMU. Further, a brief assessment of The curriculum for the MSET at Wayne State Universitythe potential job market awaiting the graduates from this [4] incorporates problem solving skills with communicationprogram, as well as the expected student demand was and project management. The Purdue University onlinepresented. Future work includes continued refinement of Master of Science in Engineering Technology program [1]the curriculum and other program details by drawing upon emphasizes more general objectives such as “design andthe best attributes of currently offered similar programs. guide

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren

process and see what the process with the customer for changes to the RFP, also something is like in industry. Researching current found in industry. Throughout the entire process, tradeoffs technology and anticipating future trends is were made in the design requiring the student teams to also (a) useful skill to practice” make sound engineering judgements based on available data. Choosing a “winner” also reinforces the nature of “I enjoyed getting to see how companies actually competition in the business world. go through the process to get the engines to work

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Timothy Urban; Margaret Baguio

internship. The residential internship is for two weeks where interns must be on-site at The University of Texas Center for2. Background Space Research. The internship includes daytime research The original program began in 2010 with an education activities, experiential learning activities, evening STEMgrant designed to leverage a set of NASA projects at CSR, activities, and field investigation. Each year, several teachers andusing NASA’s Earth observing satellites as a catalyst for the graduate students are selected as chaperones for the SEES programimplementation of a six-week high school student internship and

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Colby Ryan; Alexis Crandall; Mitch Martinez; David Kennedy; Kristian Ecolango; Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

satellites. The team was also highly successful in using thealliance with the ESET program’s MISL. The partnership project to win a number of contests including: Bestencompasses applied research, educational, and STEM Capstone Project for the TAMU College of Engineeringoutreach activities. Showcase, Best New Business Idea in the TAMU Mays One of the more significant applied research School of Business Ideas Challenge, and First Place inprojects that demonstrates the impact of such a public- Texas Instruments International Innovation Challenge.private-academic partnership was Strata-1. The NASA- Both the Strata-1 applied research project and the