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The Wpi/Goddard Space Flight Center Projects Program, Fred J. Looft, William W. Durgin

Office of the Provost Scholarship

The WP/IGSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) Projects Program is an off-campus, multi-disciplinary opportunity for students to complete their capstone design project requirement during 10 weeks of on-site project work. Students accepted into this program are required to spend one term in a project preparation course where they carry out background research, interact with their project mentor(s) at the space center, and write a detailed project proposal. At the completion of the preparation course and several weeks before the start of the following academic year, the students relocate to the Washington area and work full time for ten weeks on their …

Educating Engineering Students In Entrepreneurship, William W. Durgin, Donald N. Zwiep

Office of the Provost Scholarship

Since it’s founding in 1865, the faculty, students, and alumni of Worcester Polytechnic Institute have been responsible for the establishment of nearly all the manufacturing industry in the region. Beginning with the Norton Company, a world-wide abrasives manufacturer now owned by Saint Gobain, to recent biotechnology companies, they have combined confidence, innovation, and resourcefulness to continuously accomplish what is now referred to as technology transfer to form start-up companies. By following the historical development of these firms, we seek to determine some of the traits and environmental factors that have fostered the continual entrepreneurial success of the founders.

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Stability And Heat Transfer Characteristics Of Condensing Films, James C. Hermanson, Peder C. Pedersen, Jeffrey S. Allen, M. A. Shear, Z. Q. Chen, Andreas N. Alexandrou, William W. Durgin

Office of the Provost Scholarship

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