Kettering 10th, noting that Kettering's students graduated with skills employers were looking for.
An article in the 2014 issue of Automobile magazine listed Kettering University among five top universities for students aiming to enter the auto industry. The article noted Kettering University's unique program, which prepares students for work and immerses them in it—alternating three months of school with three months of on-the-job experience, repeated until graduation.
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National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grants have allowed Kettering to add equipment that includes an X-Ray diffractometer, an X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) instrument, a motion capture system, a High-Throughput and High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Tissue Scanner with Internet-Connected 3D Virtual Microscope for Large-Scale Automated Histology, and - at the time - the only 4G LTE Wireless system on a college campus in the country.
Kettering University partners with the federal government's …