CMU Space Grant Program
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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