MURFREESBORO, Tenn. —
Nathan Riggsbee just finished an internship with Jack Daniel’s Distillery. Quite an opportunity — and the job
included quality control … aka taste-testing the whiskey.
Approaching commencement Saturday, Aug. 12, in Murphy
Center, Syed Bukhari more than
finished his internship with the Tennessee
Board of Regents. He did so well in completing his first project early they
presented him a second one he’s in the midst of completing now.
Riggsbee and Bukhari were among 17 MTSU graduate students
making end-of-summer term Master of
Science in Professional Science presentations Thursday (Aug. 10) in the Science Building. Most are hopeful of
landing full-time positions with the respective companies they interned at
these past number of months.
The MSPS is a groundbreaking two-year master’s degree
program that combines business and STEM
(science, technology, engineering and mathematics) curriculums to produce
in-demand, working graduates. Also known nationally as Professional Science Master’s, MTSU degrees equip students for
successful careers in business, nonprofit, government or academia.
Advantages of an MSPS degree from MTSU include:
• 70-plus percent of MSPS students are offered a job at
their place of internship.
• 90-plus percent of these students are employed at
graduation.
• Average salaries for graduating students are between
$60,000 and $70,000.
“It was just fantastic,” Riggsbee, 24, a biotechnology major from Cookeville,
Tennessee, said of the Jack Daniel’s experience, where he and three other
college students worked and lived together in a Lynchburg, Tennessee, home
provided by the company.
“From the day I stepped in the door, everybody was more than
helpful,” he added. “They understood that I was an intern, that I wasn’t going
to be an expert on the first day. … They were really good support.”
Riggsbee recently applied for a microbiology position with
the company.
Bukhari, 46, of Knoxville, Tennessee, a graduate teaching
assistant in the Department of
Engineering Technology and 2016-17 student president of the Experimental Vehicles Program, provided
process maps in engineering and budgeting information for TBR’s Office of
Facilities Development.
“I gained a lot of knowledge about the product — management
and safety and health,” said Bukhari, who oversaw the completion of MTSU’s lunar rover, solar boat and Baja (off-road vehicle) hands-on
student projects.
His second TBR undertaking involves developing educational
training modules for the regents’ staff. Bukhari earned his bachelor’s degree
in electro-mechanical engineering in
2015. He has a 3.51 graduate GPA.
Actuarial science,
biostatistics, health care informatics, geosciences
and engineering management were the
other areas of study for this latest group of MSPS interns.
For more on the program, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/msps/
or call Saeed Foroudastan, program director, at 615-494-7681 or Carey Snowden,
graduate coordinator, at 615-904-8581.
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