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.