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NASSCO. "It's amazing how much I already knew when I got there because of the projects I worked on in class," he said. "It was a real asset to have that valuable experience.

In addition to the opportunity that stu- dents get to spend at the yards, they also gather a taste of the real world from the classroom through the program's final

Capstone Project, which must be com- pleted by the end of their senior year.

The project, which is designed to give students a view of the "big picture" of just what goes into the design, construc- tion and repair of a ship, is a valuable learning tool. This year's construction class projects are a design of a shipyard overhaul of a ship and an oceanographic

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In fact, a pro- ject report schedule with due dates is distributed to each student from the very first day, so that each group can organize its tasks in an orderly fash- ion.

But perhaps the most desir- able function of the Cap-

Jeff Benton from Indi- anapolis, Ind., completed his internship at Baltimore

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Marine Industries in Taco- ma, Wash, where she had the opportunity to work on the new JAWS ride for Uni- versal Studios Japan. 26 stone Project is just who gets to see the finished project. Of course, the students present their finished wares to their classmates and professors, but the great- est audience are the various shipyard executives and port engineers who are invited by Butman to witness possible future engineers at their respective yards, first-hand.

The projects are usually presented to the executives during late-winter, and according to Butman, many of his stu- dents had not one, but two or three job offers by the end of March-early April. "A big advantage of this program,"

Butman said, "Is the positive feedback that students receive from companies."

According to the Academy, out of the 29 members of the Class of 1999, most did indeed have job offers by the pre- dicted time, and moving back to 1998, approximately 50 percent of that group went on to work for various U.S. ship- yards. As impressive as these figures may seem, they are not foreign to the

Academy in terms of job availability/offers. According to a report of employment statistics dated July 15, 1999 by the Academy's Office of Pro- fessional Development, at press time 163 students out of this year's class of 180, were currently employed within some aspect of the maritime industry.

MR/EN observed two classes offered

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