Joshua Dobbs, a quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee with a degree in aerospace engineering.
For nearly three weeks in February, during the small window of time between the Super Bowl and the widespread outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the fourth-year veteran put his degree into practice. With help from the NFL Players Association, Dobbs participated in an externship program at NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, rubbing shoulders with engineers and receiving a crash course in space travel.
"The fact that in his spare time he had the interest and the ability to come work for NASA, we’re very impressed with him," Colloredo said. "It was pretty unique. But let’s face it: Josh, his approach and the way he’s going about parallel activity between the NFL and becoming an aerospace technologist, that’s pretty unique."
Once engineers heard there was a quarterback on site — especially the pocket of Tennessee graduates — Dobbs began making his way through the facility, dipping into"a mixture of things that made sense," Colloredo said, including a stop at Swamp Works, NASA's innovation lab. Dobbs excelled in STEM curriculum — an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in school, and as he neared college age decided that studying aerospace engineering would be"a major and degree field that I enjoyed, that I was passionate about and would challenge me."
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