Engineering school creating tools for the next generation of warfare

USF's Institute of Applied Engineering works to find solutions for the military while training students for the real world.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 12:00 p.m. July 1, 2021
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MARK WEMPLE: Dean of USF'S School of Engineering and president and CEO of The Institute of Applied Engineering
MARK WEMPLE: Dean of USF'S School of Engineering and president and CEO of The Institute of Applied Engineering
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When you think of a satellite, what comes to mind? Some sort of spaceship with panels beaming information back and forth from Earth? Or, maybe, a dish on a neighbor’s roof or behind a house off some country road?

You’d be right in both cases. But the satellite sitting on a worktable at the Institute of Applied Engineering in Tampa is different.

 

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