NASA signed a memorandum of understanding this week with the National Science Foundation (NSF) “to collaborate on an initiative to open new avenues to engineering careers for communities underserved and underrepresented in STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math].” The collaboration will tap Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) in recruiting and educating the engineers it cites as “essential to America’s goals to send humans back to the Moon and, eventually, on to Mars.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/nasa-co-ops-with-national-science-foundation-on-stem-initiative