Welcome to the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Capstone Student Projects Site
Courses: ASEN 4018 and ASEN 4028
This site presents select Deliverables from the Capstone Senior Design Projects
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NEWS:
Aerospace Engineering Industry Symposium
April 20, 2012, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Download Program and see what our senior and graduate students can design!
Congressman Polis' District Director Andy Schultheiss presented a message from the Congressman at 8:30 am.
Senator Bennet's Senior Advisor Monisha Merchant presented a message from the Senator at 12:30 pm.
Attendance was great! 70 visitors from industry (some flying in from out-of-State) including 16 parents. With faculty and ~80 students attending, each team had an audience of well beyond 100 people.
Companies represented at our Symposium (random order):
United Launch Alliance
SEAKR Engineering
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation
Northrop-Grumman
Pikes Peak Community College
The Boeing Company
eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
James Fox Research
Sierra Nevada Corporation
Southwest Research Institute
Thank you for attending and helping us to make a statement of academic excellence.
AIAA Region V Student Paper Conference, April 4-6, 2012
In the Team category there were 17 papers/presentations from four universities.
We are proud that our AES teams did sweep, for the 3rd year in a row, the first 3 prizes!
1st and going to AIAA-ASM in January 2013
Title: DayStar - Modeling the Daytime Performace of a Star Tracker for High Altitude Balloons
University: University of Colorado at Boulder Type: Technical Paper - Team
Presenters: Truesdale, Nick;
Dinkel, Kevin;
Skeen, Michael
2nd
Title: FENIX - Fluid Extraction for Nozzle Injection eXperiement
University: University of Colorado at Boulder
Presenters: Bonnici, Michael;
Penmetsa, Naveen;
Shaw-Cortez, Wenceslao
3rd
Title: SPEAR - Sounding Payload Ejection And Recovery
University: University of Colorado at Boulder
Presenters: Helfenbein, Carol;
Schlatter, Nicholas
Congratulations to all our students and presenters for a great effort and fabulous job. This includes all those who participated in the competition, which is the entire class.
Thank you to Dr. Gerren for leading the local AIAA competition program and our teams to great success.
Thanks to all PAB advisers who assured highest quality in all the papers that got submitted.
To those teams that did not receive accolades I want to say: your learning experience in participating is well beyond the value of a prize.
Updated: 04/08/2012