Photo credits

The CoRtEx pathway uses representative engineering photographs alongside a project image of SMILE training. The representative photographs illustrate the learning pathway and career goal; they do not identify Mines students, capstone teams, program graduates, or industry partners.

• Coursework: Engineers Working in Office, ThisIsEngineering. Used under the Pexels License.
• Hands-on learning: ARCA spin-coating demonstration, SMILE project material.
• Industry capstone: Woman Working on Computer Hardware, ThisIsEngineering. Used under the Pexels License.
• Industry placement: Kenneth Rudolph and John Hojnacki at Intel’s wafer fabrication facility in Chandler, Arizona, Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Library of Congress. Rights advisory: no known restrictions on publication.

Photographs have been cropped to fit the figure.