CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Most of Tennessee’s players currently are enjoying a break before the start of summer workouts, while a portion of the team decided to stay on campus and enroll in May mini-session courses.

Vols junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs is spending his free time working on something else.

Dobbs, who’s majoring in aerospace engineering, is completing an internship in West Palm Beach, Fla., with Pratt & Whitney, the global aerospace manufacturer.

It’s not the way most SEC starting quarterbacks would be spending their time during the offseason, but Tennesssee coach Butch Jones said Wednesday he’s not worried that Dobbs’ off-field pursuits will hinder his preparations for the upcoming season.

“Not when you talk Josh Dobbs,” Jones said during the Vols’ Big Orange Caravan stop Wednesday at The Chattanoogan Hotel in downtown Chattanooga.

“Josh Dobbs can handle that. He’s proven that he can handle that, and not many people can balance academics and being a starting quarterback with that curriculum. Josh Dobbs has been able to do that, but he’s also been able to do exceptionally well, both athletically and academically, so that won’t interfere at all.

“What we’ve done is we have a couple of different lift groups and workout groups, so Josh Dobbs will be a part of every team event that we have, every team workout. He won’t miss any time with his teammates at all.”

Dobbs, who started Tennessee’s final five games last season, will be testing and collecting data from aircraft engines —Â both commercial and military — as part of the internship, according to a report last month by Mike Strange of the Knoxville News Sentinel, a GoVols247 partner.

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