Smead Aerospace Faculty/Staff News - Mar. 18
Honors and Recognition
The art of radio telescope maintenance
Dennis Akos (left) and two students in his lab, Jacob Spagnolli and Thomas Zapel, recently assisted in maintenance of a 60 ft. dish antenna in Haswell, Colorado, about 90 miles southeast of Colorado Springs. The facility is owned by the Deep Space Exploration Society (DSES). They are working to conduct RF radio reflection off Venus.
Advancing real-time data compression for supercomputer research
Alireza Doostan is leading a major effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research. Doostan is the principal investigator on a $1.2 million...
Adding AI in the aerospace classroom
Bobby Hodgkinson is exploring the pluses – and minuses – of generative AI in academia. An associate teaching professor, Hodgkinson is working to steer positive AI adoption in education. “People are starting to feel the effects of...
Aerospace undergrads teaching high school students about rocketry
Sebastian Grabowski and a team of aerospace undergrads are taking on their toughest challenge yet: going back to high school. A sophomore, Grabowski is an active member of the Sounding Rocket Laboratory, a student club that boasts more than...
Palo interviewed on satellite constellations
Scott Palo is highlighted in a new article discussing Amazon's Kuiper satellite internet service. The IEEE Spectrum article outlines the company's effort to build out a competitor to SpaceX's Starlink and concerns about the rapidly expanding number of satellites in low earth orbit.Palo, a professor...
