CPU2AL consortium internship connects top students with Alabama industry

A Low Temperature Plasma (LTP) internship program led by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that connects undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields from nine Alabama partner universities with Alabama-based industries is preparing for its third round of internships in January.

The Corporate Internship Program on Plasma Technology Applications (CIPPTA) is one of four different summer internship programs under a $20 million, five-year grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) known as Connecting the Plasma Universe to Plasma Technology in Alabama: The Science and Technology of Low-Temperature Plasma (CPU2AL).

"We set out to build a unique internship program that ties academia, particularly plasma physics in an academic setting, and bright students directly with industry."

The CPU2AL principal investigator is UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank, director of the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), the Aerojet Rocketdyne chair of the university’s Department of Space Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. CPU2AL is an integrated, statewide collaborative effort that seeks to understand, predict and control the transfer of power from electromagnetic fields to electrons, ions, atoms, molecules and surfaces, and chemical reactions in plasma and on surfaces in LTP environments.

Read the full article from UAH here.