Presentation to Prospective Students GRADUATE PROJECTS Presentation to Prospective Students March 7, 2014 Joe Tanner Course Coordinator

Graduate Projects I and II Two semester course sequence to introduce MS and PhD students to project management and systems engineering while working a team-based complex aerospace engineering project Course details ASEN 5018/6028, two semesters required for AES Available to all engineering majors 3 credit hour per semester One 50 min lecture period with two 1 hr 50 min labs/wk Project Teams Goal is 8 – 15 students per team Teams may contain both 5000 and 6000 level students Projects fall into three general areas: Human Spacecraft, Small Spacecraft, and Aircraft/Rocket Design

Course Objectives Students will be practiced in or at least exposed to the following areas:  Project Management and Systems Engineering Team project work in student groups Detailed requirements definition Design, build, test and verification of an aerospace system Formal presentations and design reviews Entrepreneurial possibilities for starting a company Intellectual property and technology transfer issues

Other Courses Details ASEN 5018 is prerequisite for ASEN 6028 Course sequence satisfies MS graduation requirement ASEN 6028 counts toward PhD course requirements Four pre/co-requisite courses, as applicable to project Space Habitat design (ASEN 5158) Spacecraft Design (ASEN 5148) Aircraft Design (ASEN 4138) Rocket Propulsion (ASEN 5053) Enrollment in Graduate Projects course is by permission of project lab section professor For those interested in learning more, MS degree with Project Management Certificate available through CU Engineering Management Program

Graduate Projects – Spring 2014 Semester Eight project teams this semester with 74 students 51 AES, 17 EE, 2 ME, 4 CS – 7 are PhD students 26 in 1st semester, 42 in 2nd semester of course sequence, 6 independent study students Industry involvement Varies with each team Alumni involvement Several alumni help with lectures Funding Corporate and government sponsorships CU Engineering Excellence Fund

Eight Graduate Project Teams – Spring 14 MinXSS/QB50 – Two CubeSat projects MinXSS - Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer to measure soft x-rays emitted from the Sun – major NSF funding QB50 – Ion mass spectrometer to measure O, O2, N2 and NO in lower atmosphere – launched by ESA GoJett - Supersonic UAV Design Miniature jet engine powered high performance UAV HySoR - Hybrid powered sounding rocket Build and launch sounding rocket prototype to 10 km LifeLAB – Design, build and test atmospheric and vacuum chambers for ECLSS development testing – lab located in AES basement level

Eight Graduate Project Teams – Spring 14 Dream Chaser - Commercial Crew vehicle Detail design of cockpit area, seats, and human factors testing for vertical crew ingress and emergency egress X-Hab - Design, build, and test a robotic plant growing system for a gravity based space environment NASA sponsored Space Grant award CUSP – Design, build and test a microprocessor payload for satellite to be launched by Surrey Satellites – ITAR restricted AREND – Create UAV system to assist South Africa Kruger National Park rangers in fight against rhino poaching – multi- national effort and competition

Questions? Come see me in ECAE 100 I can not advise PhD students nor do I have funding…sorry