An engineering program at a liberal arts college can benefit students by allowing personal interaction with faculty and by including non-technical aspects of education needed in the working world. However, students and faculty from such teaching institutions may lack the equipment, techniques and experienced personnel employed by a larger research entity. The Summer Fellowship Program (SFP) provides the opportunity to form a type of temporary partnership. Under management of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) annually offers the SFP to full-time engineering and science educators in the United States, as an opportunity to participate in NASA's current research efforts. 1 Over the years, both NASA and participating faculty have benefitted from the SFP by realizing some of NASA's primary objectives for the program, such as: ... to increase the quality and quantity of research collaborations between NASA and the academic community that contribute to NASA's research objectives; ...to provide research opportunities for college and university faculty that serve to enrich their knowledge base; ...to involve students in cutting-edge science and engineering challenges related to NASA's strategic enterprises, while providing exposure to the methods and practices of real-world research; ...to enhance faculty pedagogy and facilitate interdisciplinary networking.... 1

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