Aerospace Student Projects Symposium 2016

Aerospace Student Projects Symposium 2016
You are invited to attend the Aerospace Engineering Sciences showcase of Senior and Graduate
student projects for 2016. Teams will present their work in brief talks in the morning, and
demonstrate their projects after lunch in an informal poster session (see the agenda below).
Please help us recognize the excellent work of our students!
When? → Friday, April 15, 2016, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Where? → Discovery Learning Center (DLC), http://engineering.colorado.edu/dlc/ ;
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=DLC
Questions? → [email protected]
Registration form is available through → http://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/seniorgraduate-design-symposiumregistration-form
More information  http://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/current-students/undergraduates/senior-design-projects
Please register by April 11 so we can order enough lunch.
8:00 am
8:30 am ‐
Registration
Welcome by AES Chair Penina Axelrad
Presentations
TEAM
SPONSOR
8:45 am
AESIR
Aurora Flight Sciences
9:00 am
COMPASS
CU AES
9:15 am
ELSA
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
9:30 am
FISH&CHIPS
Surrey Satellite Technologies ‐ US
9:45 am
INFERNO
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:15 am
REAPER
Air Force Research Laboratory
10:30 am
SPAM
Special Aerospace Services
10:45 am
STAR
CU AES
11:00 am
QB50
National Science Foundation
11:15 am
AMARCS
United Launch Alliance
11:30 am
CHAMP
Orbital ATK
11:45 am Lunch, 12:15 pm Keynote Speaker, Dr. Dava Newman, NASA Deputy Administrator
1:15 pm
CU‐E3
Northrop Grumman
1:30 pm
FlyNET
RECUV
1:45 pm
MarsOASIS
US Space Grant Foundation
2‐4:00 pm Poster and Demonstration Session
2016 Student Projects
AESIR
Actuated Electromagnetic
System for Ice Removal
Small‐scale prototype of a deicing system for the Orion
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
University of COlorado Model
Positioning stAtic SyStem
SPAM
Solid Propellant Additive
Manufacturing
4 degree‐of‐freedom model positioning system for the
new CU AES wind tunnel
A self‐contained probe to collect, store, and transmit
magnetometer and Geiger counter data to a ground
station for a 100 hour mission lifetime
Design of a satellite structure which can support up to
100kg of total satellite mass and deploy from the
International Space Station along with a data
acquisition system for vibration testing
Semi‐autonomous quadcopter drone designed to
deliver sensor packages to target locations
Integrating a recuperative heat exchanger into an
existing JetCat P90‐RXi miniature turbojet engine to
decrease thrust specific fuel consumption
Additive manufacturing system for sucrose potassium
nitrate solid rocket propellant
STAR
Satellite Testbed for Attitude
Response
Testbed suite to provide confidence in the attitude
determination and control system of a CubeSat
CubeSat flight program
One of fifty CubeSats sponsored through the
National Science Foundation being used to collect
atmospheric measurements
AMARCS
Additive Manufactured
Aerospike Reaction Control
System
3D‐printed aerospike rocket engine that produces 50‐lbf
thrust and utilizes regenerative cooling
CHAMP
Cygnus HAbitation Module
Project
CU-E3
University of Colorado Earth
Escape Explorer
FlyNET
Autonomous Multi‐rotor
Mapping and Localization
COMPASS
ELSA
FISH&CHIPS
INFERNO
REAPER
QB50
MarsOASIS
Europa Lander for Science
Acquisition
Feathercraft Integrated
Structural Housing & Computer,
Hardware Interface Processing
Suite
INtegrated Flight‐Enabled Rover
For Natural disaster Observation
REcuperating Advanced
Propulsion Engine Redesign
Mars Operational Agricultural
System for In‐Situ Specialization
Design and construct a Super 4‐Segment Cygnus
module and Node mockup to support human factors
testing and analysis
6U CubeSat competing in the NASA CubeQuest
Centennial Challenge to perform a communications
mission from heliocentric orbit
Design a team of autonomous robots to perform a
Search & Rescue mission by mapping and localizing an
unknown environment while searching for targets
Autonomous greenhouse for food production