Senior Design Projects 2014-2015

Course Coordinator:ÌýDale Lawrence
Course Assistant:ÌýRyan Slabaugh
Professional Advisory Board (PAB):ÌýDale Lawrence, Jelliffe Jackson, Trudy Schwartz, Matt Rhode

10 Teams:

  • Surrey Satellite Technology US: ETHOS Earth Horizon Sensor
    • Objective: Low cost imaging horizon sensor for small spacecraft
  • Northrop Grumman: BLISS Boundary Layer In-Situ Sensor System
    • Objective:ÌýWind sensing UAV for validating local atmospheric model s
  • Air Force Research Laboratory/CU: MEDUSA Methane Engine Design for Unmanned Small Aircraft
    • Objective: Engine control and fuel delivery for methane conversion of a small gas turbine engine
  • South West Research Institute: ASTERIA Aloft Stratospheric Testbed for Experimental Research on Infrasonic Activity
    • Objective: High altitude balloon infrasound sensor for meteorite detection
  • CU AES: MODEFLIER Mode-Demonstrating Flying Laboratory: Instruction and Experiment in Real-time
    • Objective: UAV for demonstrating aircraft dynamic modes in undergraduate flight dynamics courses
  • NASA Langley: SPECTRE Solar-sail Pitch Enabling Controller through Root Excitation
    • Objective: Solar sail blade damping control for a cubesat-scale heliogyro propulsion system
  • Ball Aerospace: STATIS Systematic Testbed Apparatus for Thermal Infrared Sensors
    • Objective: Non-contact temperature sensor testbed for spacecraft applications
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): RACER RAppelling Cave Exploration Rover
    • Objective: Child rover with vertical descent capabilities for planetary exploration
  • Lockheed Martin: PHOENIX Cubesat Infrared Camera
    • Objective: MWIR camera, optics, and thermal control system for asteroid spin sensing
  • RECUV: ANACONDA ANtenna with Autonomous, CONtinuous, Data trAnsfer
    • Objective: Stand-alone, autonomous tracking antenna for communicating with a UAV