California Space Grant Sponsors Senior Design Rocket Project

  • On June 13, 2011
With California Space Grant support, UCSD Aerospace Engineering Senior design students are able to integrate their coursework with practical hands-on applications, gain real world experience and systems engineering skills by launching individualized rocket experiments. In groups of 4 or 5, the students are responsible for building, testing and flying a 50lb thrust solid rocket or […]
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Student Microgravity Project on The Cephalic Fluid Shift and Intracranial Pressure

  • On June 2, 2011
Sponsored in part by the California Space Grant Consortium under the UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program), UCSD and Grossmont Community College students are studying what happens when blood floods to the head in microgravity. They’ve designed experiments to measure intracranial pressures in microgravity with a machine that mimics fluid flow to the brain. In July […]
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Student Project on Plasma Actuated UAV

  • On June 2, 2011
The California Space Grant is proud to announce updates on a student research project, sponsored in part under the California Space Grant’s UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) in 2009 and 2010. Ved Chirayath’s current research focuses on improving the efficiency of control surfaces on aircraft while reducing their total weight. Prior to his research, the […]
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