[CCoE Notice] Restarting USIP

[Knudsen, Rachel W]

Please email Dr. Bering  (eabering at uh.edu<mailto:eabering at uh.edu>) if you are interested in having him visit your class.
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STUDENT OPPORTUNITY:
OBSERVING OUR CHANGING PLANET
Learn to Build Spacecraft and Related Ground Based Experiments in NASA designed Undergraduate Student Instrument Project
Colleges of NSM, Engineering, and Technology Are Accepting Enrollment in Two Year Project to Study the Aurora Borealis and Upper Atmosphere
[Balloon Launch]
This course is an outcome of the 2015 The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) Student Flight Research Opportunity competition that encouraged U.S. universities to offer undergraduate courses or clubs that build an Earth or space science payload that could fly on a suborbital vehicle, such as a sounding rocket, balloon, aircraft, or commercial suborbital reusable launch vehicles or provide related ground based observations.
The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Cullen College of Engineering, the College of Technology, and The Honors College at UH will be offering a two year program for credit to design and build ground instruments or balloon borne spacecraft to study the aurora borealis and the upper atmosphere using ground based equipment or multiple payloads and hand launched balloons. A select number of students will be able to travel to Alaska to launch or deploy the experiments. Experiments will also be conducted in Texas.
Students interested in participating should attend an information session that will be held on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 5:30 PM in room 634 of S&R I. There will be another identical session in Engineering N61 D at 7 pm on Wednesday, Nov 6.
The student team will be multidisciplinary and include undergraduate students from all disciplines including engineering, science, humanities, business, art, and other fields. Students will be asked to register for a 3 hour special problems class in either Physics, EAS, COSC, or ECE. (More listings pending)
Additional information or questions can be obtained by sending email to one of the contacts below:
Prof. Edgar Bering, eabering at uh.edu <mailto:eabering at uh.edu>
Prof. Robert Talbot, rtalbot at Central.UH.EDU<mailto:rtalbot at Central.UH.EDU>
Prof. Shuhab Khan, sdkhan at Central.UH.EDU<mailto:sdkhan at Central.UH.EDU>
A student blog from the 2017 and 2018 campaigns can be found here<https://usip-uh.weebly.com/>.
Project alumni have volunteered to provide student perspective. Ask questions by email to any of the following:
Arian Ehteshami ffehteshami at yahoo.com<mailto:ffehteshami at yahoo.com>; Rachel Gamblin rbgamblin at live.com<mailto:rbgamblin at live.com>; Bryan Gunawan bryan.gunawan95 at gmail.com<mailto:bryan.gunawan95 at gmail.com>; Michelle Nowling micnowling at gmail.com<mailto:micnowling at gmail.com>; Itay Porat itaygp at gmail.com<mailto:itaygp at gmail.com>
Apply Now!
To apply to be a member of the proposal team, please download and fill out this form<http://nsmn1.uh.edu/ebering/USIP%20UH%20Application.pdf>. Return it by e-mail to Prof. Edgar Bering, eabering at uh.edu <mailto:eabering at uh.edu> by November 8, 2019.
There will be an organizational meeting for the students who have already applied on Wednesday, November 13 in Room 634 SR I at 5:30pm. The topics to be covered will include interactive instructions and details of how to enroll in the required Engineering and NSM courses for next semester. If you have applied, you should come to this meeting.
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