WPI’s Army ROTC program has earned the prestigious 2021 MacArthur Leadership Award for the Top Army ROTC program in the Northeast, one of eight Army ROTC programs from across the country that will receive this award at Fort Knox this spring.
Twenty-two newly minted military officers were advised to remain humble, listen to their subordinates, and adhere to their core values as they embark on their military careers, during WPI’s Joint Commissioning Ceremony held May 21.
ROTC Cadet Part of Team Earning Technology Transfer Innovation Award
Operationalizing Science for Transformational Products Serving the U.S. Military
May 25, 2021
This past summer, WPI mechanical engineering student and
ROTC Cadet Spencer Tess ’21 opted for an internship over a traditional summer break. With his scheduled ROTC stint at Fort Knox cancelled due to the pandemic, he decided to pursue an internship with the Department of Defense.
Leveraging
from Higher Education, Government, Private Industry Partnerships
Tess was part of a team co-led by DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and Soldier Center, commonly referred to as Natick Labs, industry partners Sherpa 6 and Creative Engineering, and WPI’s Army ROTC Bay State Battalion. Together they spent eight weeks developing and demonstrating a process dubbed Very Early Product Realization (VEPR T2), a suite of tools that accelerates the development of products from new discoveries.