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¾«¶«Ó°ÒµDigital Engineering & Design Center for Space Applications (DEDC Space@Kent) provides digital engineering lifecycle education and research opportunities to undergraduate students with year-long internships in the center. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµinternship entails learning about the digital engineering integrated development environment while designing, developing, testing, and implementing Aerospace Systems with a desired cybersecurity posture. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµsystems engineering lifecycle management integrates cyber-informed engineering principles as laid out in the Department of Energy initiative.

¾«¶«Ó°ÒµDEDC Space@Kent is composed of ten intern students from Aerospace Engineering, Cybersecurity Engineering, Computer Engineering Technology, and Mechatronics Engineering programs. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµfaculty advisors are:

• Joycelyn Harrison (Director)
• Benjamin Kwasa (Lead Faculty)
• Jeff Balcerski (Lead Faculty)
• Deniz Gurkan (Cybersecurity Lead)
• Syed A. M. Shihab
• Rui Liu

¾«¶«Ó°Òµcurriculum is covered through weekly meetings with the faculty members while the students work on the projects using resources in a collaboration with University of Texas El Paso (UTEP).