Curtis Lane, a Benedict College alumni (member of the BC Class of 2004) and current graduate student majoring in electrical engineering at University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., has been competitively selected for a 10-week summer internship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD. The intense 10-week internship provides professional development for more than 60 of this country's best and brightest graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of science, engineering, mathematics and political science.
The GFSC program is coordinated through the Equal Opportunity Programs Office summer internship programs. The intent is to encourage high caliber college students to both pursue and earn graduate degrees in administrative and technical disciplines of interest to GSFC and to enhance their interest in careers at GSFC by exposing them to its professional resources and facilities. The ultimate goal, of the distinct programs, is to allow students of color and underrepresented groups in the fields of science, engineering and mathematics an opportunity to become more aware of the possibilities available at aerospace installations.
Lane, a Warner Robins, Ga., native, is working in the GSFC Thermal Engineering Branch as a component of the Summer Institute in Engineering and Computer Applications (SIECA) Program. The SIECA program, in collaboration with GSFC, is designed increase the number of students of color who will pursue graduate degrees and careers in engineering, science, technology and mathematics. Joining Lane at GSFC are fellow SIECA graduate students Daniel Chapman, Lauren Chung, Emily Alicea Munoz, Femi Olumoko, Anderson Prewitt, George Suarez and Kongpop-U-Yen.
The Goddard Space Flight Center, established in 1959 and named after the rocket research pioneer Robert H. Goddard, employs hundreds of premier scientist and engineers who are devoted
to research in Earth Science, Space Science and technology.
Source: Benedict College Office of Public Relations.
