But Castillo is slated to graduate in a year, and under TECH’s current structure, there is no guarantee that his program will survive, let alone grow.
Castillo, like other students who work on TECH projects, hold no formal positions within the center, meaning that TECH’s foci could change dramatically from year to year as student body composition changes.
Forward-Thinking
Bottino cited alumni-faculty collaboration as one of TECH’s strongest accomplishments this year.
“I think the best thing I saw was the energy level of the students and the willingness of alumni to give of their time and energy,” he said.
But TECH leaders hope this will all eventually look like small potatoes.
Castillo says he hopes to expand the TMP program to at least three projects next year. He’ll be spending the summer at Harvard working on finding new company partners for the program.
And a project that is underway for the next academic year is the construction of a website that will facilitate connections between students and alumni and industry contacts.
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