The Draper Scholars Program emphasizes empowering students in 14 key research areas to make the greatest impact. We encourage applicants to align their research with these topics.
Emerging, Potential Disruptive Technology
Draper mission includes providing technical advice and advanced technical solutions for our customer’s most challenging problems and needs. While we are very mission application focused, we are also always looking to incorporate new technology to improve and at times with disruptive new solutions.
Technical Point of Contact
Dr. Brent Appleby
appleby@draper.com
appleby@draper.com
Research Interests
Emerging Technologies
Draper is interested in identifying and characterizing the potential benefits of basic research technologies that show great promise and that are at a maturity for consideration for more advanced R&D to be applied for solutions to important application needs.
Disruptive Technology
Draper is interested in R&D for potentially disruptive new technology vectors. Technologies that disruptive current practices and broaden the potential solution space. For example biotechnology is rapidly advancing and providing new sensing, information management, and manufacturing options that show great promise.
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