{"id":69365,"date":"2006-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-engineering-partnership-with-raytheon-advances-students-employees-research\/"},"modified":"2006-01-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-engineering-partnership-with-raytheon-advances-students-employees-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/01\/uri-engineering-partnership-with-raytheon-advances-students-employees-research\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 engineering partnership with Raytheon advances students, employees, research"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tInternships, tours, exchanges help both institutions grow and compete<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — January 4, 2006 — A long-time partnership between the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering and Raytheon Co. in Portsmouth has blossomed in recent years and is helping both institutions succeed in an increasingly competitive marketplace for students and employees.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur partnership with 溏心vlog免费B站 is an important part of our effort to promote math and science education, \u201csaid Mark Ferguson, Raytheon\u2019s manager of strategic development.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cIt\u2019s getting more and more difficult for us to compete with China and other countries that are graduating many more engineers than we are in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cOur relationship with Raytheon is something we showcase to prospective students and faculty members as an exciting and unique opportunity where they can gain hands-on experience and learn real-world applications for their research,\u201d said Bahram Nassersharif, dean of the College of Engineering.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe centerpiece of the partnership is an internship program that has allowed students to link classroom theory with practical engineering applications. Eight 溏心vlog免费B站 students interned at the Raytheon Integrated Defense System Maritime Mission Center in Portsmouth last summer, the most of any university, and each was given a special engineering project to work on in collaboration with a Raytheon mentor. Raytheon has already hired one of the interns full-time, four part-time and offered jobs to two others when they graduate in May.<\/p>\n


\n\tOne unique aspect of these internships is their focus on the importance of communication. \u201cWe want the students to have technical success during the internship, but we also want them to meet with social success and to interact and share with their peers,\u201d Ferguson said. \u201cThe internships are much more than just about cranking out technical solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tRaytheon\u2019s emphasis on the importance of communication has even inspired the company to offer to help 溏心vlog免费B站 establish a chapter of Toastmasters, the national public speaking organization, to help students further develop their communication skills.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe partners are working on creating an \u201cexchange\u201d program between 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and Raytheon engineers. Faculty will be invited to present lunchtime seminars on their research to Raytheon staff, and they may even have the opportunity to spend as long as six months working on applied research projects at Raytheon. In exchange, Raytheon engineers are invited to serve as guest lecturers in engineering classes, and some may serve as adjunct faculty members and teach entire 溏心vlog免费B站 courses.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThese exchanges are a cross pollination that we both can learn from,\u201d Ferguson said.<\/p>\n


\nRaytheon also regularly opens its laboratories for tours for 溏心vlog免费B站 students and faculty. Last summer, ocean engineering faculty toured Raytheon\u2019s underwater acoustics lab, while in October, 29 students and faculty visited Raytheon\u2019s Systems Engineering Integration facilities. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cTours like these are mutually beneficial in many ways,\u201d said Jyh-Hone Wang, associate professor and chair of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. \u201cIt encourages information exchange in specific research and technology areas; it helps identify intern opportunities for 溏心vlog免费B站 students; and it provides an opportunity to exchange expertise between 溏心vlog免费B站 faculty and Raytheon engineers. Feedback from everyone involved has been very positive.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThrough the partnership, Raytheon employees seeking to further their educations can do so without even leaving their offices. 溏心vlog免费B站 offers an on-site MBA program to interested Raytheon employees, and six earned the degree in 2005. In addition, other on-site short courses are regularly offered, like the one-week course on the computer networking application CORBA, which was offered to Raytheon\u2019s software engineering group last fall and taught by 溏心vlog免费B站 Computer Science Professor Victor Fay-Wolfe. Other short courses are also offered as necessary.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis partnership was born out of our mutual goal of promoting math and science education,\u201d concluded Ferguson. \u201cIt\u2019s important for our employees, and it\u2019s important for 溏心vlog免费B站 students so they\u2019re ready to come into our workforce. The partnership has allowed both of us to tap into each other\u2019s resources for mutual benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students and faculty gather with Raytheon staff members following a tour of Raytheon’s System Engineering Integration facilities in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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