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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:27.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">OBSERVING OUR CHANGING PLANET</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">Learn to Build Spacecraft and Related Ground Based Experiments in NASA designed Undergraduate Student Instrument Project</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black">Colleges of NSM, Engineering, and Technology Are Accepting Enrollment in Two Year Project to Study the Aurora Borealis
and Upper Atmosphere</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:black"><img alt="Balloon Launch" style="width:868px; max-width:100%" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:b46949bb-50f7-4401-b1aa-6d59563519eb"></span></b></p>
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<span>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.
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<span>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 equi</span><span>p</span><span>ment 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.</span></p>
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<span>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.</span></p>
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<span>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)</span></p>
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<span>Additional information or questions can be obtained by sending email to one of the contacts below:</span></p>
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<span>Prof. Edgar Bering, <a href="mailto:eabering@uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">eabering@uh.edu
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<span>Prof. Robert Talbot, <a href="mailto:rtalbot@Central.UH.EDU" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">rtalbot@Central.UH.EDU</span></a></span></p>
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<span>Prof. Shuhab Khan, <a href="mailto:sdkhan@Central.UH.EDU" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">sdkhan@Central.UH.EDU</span></a></span></p>
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<span>A student blog from the 2017 and 2018 campaigns can be found <a href="https://usip-uh.weebly.com/" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">here</span></a>.</span></p>
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<span>Project alumni have volunteered to provide student perspective. Ask questions by email to any of the following:</span></p>
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<span>Arian Ehteshami <a href="mailto:ffehteshami@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">ffehteshami@yahoo.com</span></a>; Rachel Gamblin
<a href="mailto:rbgamblin@live.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">rbgamblin@live.com</span></a>; Bryan Gunawan
<a href="mailto:bryan.gunawan95@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">bryan.gunawan95@gmail.com</span></a>; Michelle Nowling
<a href="mailto:micnowling@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">micnowling@gmail.com</span></a>; Itay Porat
<a href="mailto:itaygp@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">itaygp@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Apply Now!</span></b></p>
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<span>To apply to be a member of the proposal team, please download and fill out <a href="http://nsmn1.uh.edu/ebering/USIP%20UH%20Application.pdf" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">this form</span></a>. Return it by e-mail to Prof. Edgar Bering,
<a href="mailto:eabering@uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#cc0000">eabering@uh.edu
</span></a>by November 8, 2019.</span></p>
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<span>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.</span></p>
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