The Technology Aviation Research Practicum is a one year course designed to assist aviation technology majors in the AEAT program to complete a research or design and development senior project from a specific internship experience. Requirements include STEM Fair Participation, writing of a 5-chapter thesis-type paper, and participation in the AEAT Research Practicum(RP) Symposium. Steps of the ATRP process include topic selection, research design, implementation of research, statistical data analysis, interpretation of research findings, and presentation of research findings. Course topics are Project Development, Proposal Construction, Technical Writing, Statistics,Ethics, use of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Information Processing, and display of both backboard and poster.
