Smead Aerospace Student News - July 21

Smead Aerospace students had a stellar performance in the student poster competition at the 2025 CEDAR workshop held in Des Moines, Iowa.

• 1st Place - James Monaco "Monte Carlo Simulation to Estimate Meteor Radar Performance",
• 2nd Place - Yingfei Chen“Lidar Discovery of AO and SAO of TINa Layers from the First Na Climatology of 75-150 km: Connections to Metallic Ions, Wave and Eddy Transport, and Meteoric Influx."
• 3rd Place - Brenna Royersmith“Integrating New GNSS Methods into 3D Ionospheric Imaging: A Simulation Study"

Aerospace undergraduate Alex Pfankuch has been awarded a Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) scholarship for the next academic year. The program supports talented individuals with a passion for geospatial intelligence, geospatial sciences, and related disciplines.

Please join the upcoming AGU25 Meeting for our "A090 - Spaceflight and Earth’s Atmosphere: How the Coming Era of Larger and More Frequent Rocket Launches and Space Debris Reentries Could Affect Global Climate, Ozone, High-Altitude Clouds, and Upper Atmosphere."

The conference will run in-person and virtually this year from Monday to Friday, 15-19 December 2025 in New Orleans, LA, USA, 8:30 am-7:30 pm Eastern Standard Time.

The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC.

Instructions and abstract submissions.

Nov. 18-20, 2025
Bremen, Germany

Space Tech Expo Europe 2025 is free-to-attend, you simply need to complete the registration form with the requested details.

The CEAE department is hiring a new lab manager for our large-scale structures and centrifuge testing facilities. We conduct research and service projects for infrastructure, energy, and space companies and agencies in our CIEST facility. This is a staff position requiring leadership skills, industry connections, and some technical understanding.