Reeve Ingle:
2007 CED Student of the Year
Richard “Reeve” Ingle, a Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice (DoPP) co-op student, was recently named 2007 Student of the Year by the Cooperative Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (CED – ASEE). Reeve is a senior electrical engineering major with a minor in Spanish, and has a 4.0 cumulative GPA. He has completed four co-op work terms with the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and an internship with the U.S. Department of Defense in Ft. Meade, Maryland.
As a co-op student at NASA, Reeve worked on a variety of projects, including the designing a dashboard display unit, developing an RF spectrum map for the SCOUT Project (NASA’s “moon-buggy” robot rover), developing electrical systems drawings for the International Space Station Japanese Experiment Module, and investigating methods of cleaning clothing in space. He also trained to be a back-room flight controller in Mission Control Center, wrote a technical report on space exploration research which he presented at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Banquet in Spring 2005, and was the only co-op student selected to support NASA robotics field testing at Meteor Crater, Arizona in Fall 2006.
Reeve has been a strong and consistent supporter of both Georgia Tech and NASA’s cooperative education programs. He spoke at on-campus NASA information sessions during Spring 2006 and 2007 and designed a web-based co-op housing guide that is still used on NASA’s co-op website. As a Co-op Ambassador for the Georgia Tech Division of Professional Practice, Reeve spoke about his co-op experience and the benefits of cooperative education at the Academics Beyond the Classroom Expo at the President’s Scholarship Reception in Spring 2007 and the ECE Co-op Information Session in Fall 2007.
Reeve possesses a unique combination of communications, people, and technical skills as exemplified by the diversity of his engineering studies, community service and leadership activities in which he participates. It is this breadth of interests, activities and skills that makes him such a strong and well-rounded student and co-op. He studied in Mexico City and Madrid during the Summer of 2004, and worked as a Teaching Assistant in Mexico City in Summer 2006. He has done undergraduate research in the Georgia Tech Optics Lab and also worked as a Georgia Tech Mathematics Department Teaching Assistant. Reeve has been actively involved with Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, IEEE, Christian Campus Fellowship, and intramural sports. Additionally, he has volunteered as a host for Connect with Tech, a weekend for prospective students.
In addition to participating in several on-campus activities, Reeve is also actively involved in the community. He was a mentor for the NASA Explorer Schools Reduced Gravity Program and a Texas Aerospace Scholars Volunteer Leader for a rover design program for college students. He has served as a Committee Chair for Tech Beautification Day and the TeamBUZZ Volunteer Service Organization, and has tutored students with disabilities through the Georgia Tech ADAPTS program. He received the 2003 Outstanding Service in Historical Preservation Award from the Carroll County Historical Society for design of Carrollton Main Street Association Web site: http://historic.carrolltongeorgia.com.
Among the awards Reeve has received are the NASA-JSC Outstanding Co-op Award; Georgia Tech Outstanding ECE Sophomore; Georgia Governor's Honors Program; and Valedictorian of his high school class. He earned the Eagle Scout rank and received a state Boy Scout award for rescuing a person with a broken leg in the Smoky Mountains.
As one of Reeve’s supervisors at NASA noted, “I cannot overemphasize how exemplary Reeve was in every facet of his tour with us. We give him our unqualified strongest recommendation as a result of his work here. Reeve truly was one of the most outstanding co-ops I have ever worked with, and I am glad to have had that opportunity.”
Reeve will start a PhD program in electrical engineering in Fall, 2008, but has not yet decided upon a school. He plans to work at the NASA Johnson Space Center Electronic Systems Test Lab during Summer, 2008.
