Transcript CMU Space Grant Program2

CMU Space Grant Program
Summer 2007
Undergraduate Research Program
• Leveraged CMU’s exisiting extensive
summer undergraduate research
programs for
– Advertising and recruiting
– Social programs
• Advisors in housing
• Picnics, ball games, Falling Water
– Seminars
Undergraduate Research Program
• Recruited CMU faculty with NASA
research funding
• Recruited nationally for undergraduates
interested in summer research
– Focused on under-represented applicants
• Sent applications to faculty who selected 3
students
Surfactants in Aerosol Drug
Delivery
• Goal: Fundamental understanding of the
fluid-solid interfacial regions
• Faculty: Stephen Garoff and Robert Tilton
• Laura Drasher
– Study surfacants to modify the interfacial
regions between an aerosol drug and lung
mucus
Project TRESTLE
• Goal: Design a multi-agent team of robots
that cooperate to construct a structure
autonomously via teleoperation
• Faculty: Sanjiv Singh
• Yasin Sobhan
– Telemetry for Roving Eye (camera robot)
• Guadalupe Ramirez
– Algorithms for stereo vision