Contact: Robbie Ward
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State engineering professor is a recent selection for the Boeing Co.'s prestigious Welliver Faculty Fellowship Program.
Aerospace engineer Masoud Rais-Rohani is among 10 international researchers asked to review projects being planned by the world's largest aerospace and defense corporation.
The Seattle, Wash.-based business created the eight-week fellowship program in 1995 and participants spend the first week there working with Boeing mentors. After being updated on current and future projects, they will be given the opportunity to lead a project related to their research interests and Boeing's needs.
By providing access to Boeing's technical and business systems, the teaching and research professionals will be better equipped to prepare students for successful careers in engineering, business, manufacturing, and technology, said company spokesman Lynn Brown.
"This program gives faculty members the opportunity to share their ideas and insights for improvements within Boeing and share how they will use what they have learned in their classrooms," Brown said, adding, "This opportunity is priceless."
During their final week, Rais-Rohani and his colleagues travel to St. Louis, Mo., to make individual and group presentations before company executives at Boeing's Leadership Center.
Along with helping to better prepare students, the fellows program enables the 1991 Virginia Tech University doctoral graduate and his colleagues to develop personal and professional networks with experienced Boeing engineers.
"This is going to offer me a view of Boeing that would be impossible to see or understand from the outside," said Rais-Rohani. "I'll spend time on the inside getting to see their day-to-day operations and then bring some of those experiences back to the classroom."
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact Dr. Rais-Rohani at 662-325-7294 or masoud@ae.msstate.edu.
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