SPEAK FLUENT OCEAN ENGINEERING
URI’s International Engineering Program has inspired Mike Smith ’15 to explore his passions. He’s double majoring in ocean engineering and Spanish, completed a semester of study in Spain, and spent a month aboard the E/V Nautilus learning to control a remotely
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operated vehicle near the Cayman Islands. Now he’s deep into a six-month internship with the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, a non-profit consortium dedicated to cutting-edge research and advanced ocean technology. “These are experiences few ever get the chance to have,” Mike says. That’s just engineering at URI for you.
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