ED050
Student/Educator Undergraduate Research Programs Promoting Authentic Scientific Experience

Session ID#: 76637

Session Description:
We invite presentations of experiences, models, and outcomes of successful initiatives that provide authentic research experiences for students and educators at the undergraduate level. In particular, this year’s session seeks papers from NASA’s Undergraduate Student Instrumentation Program (USIP). We hope to get papers that emphasize the lessons learned from the amazing variety of undergraduate student USIP projects, and the programmatic ‘lessons learned’ as well. We invite the undergraduates and recent alumni to describe their experiences in student-led research project. Presentations can address the roles of scientists and education experts in bringing research experiences to the classroom. We welcome presentations from educators, scientists, and students as well as those who design, facilitate, evaluate or fund programs. Other topics may include recruitment strategies, program sustainability,  mentoring, student outcomes, evaluation results, and lessons learned from past efforts. Presentations are welcome from all scientific disciplines.
Index Terms:

0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]

Primary Convener:  Edgar A Bering III, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, Brenda Dingwall, NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops, VA, United States and Constance E Walker, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Constance E Walker, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
An inquiry based approach to learning how to build spacecraft for undergraduate students and how we have benefited from the experience. (499795)
Elizabeth Hernandez1, Edgar Bering III1, Nicole Molders2, Robert W Talbot3, Rachel Gamblin1, Michael Greer1, Bryan Gunawan4 and Jamie Nicole Lehnen1, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Manchester, NH, United States
 
Design and Implementation of Cherenkov Radiator Payload for NASA’s USIP and Lessons Learned (509230)
Wookwon Lee and Nicholas B Conklin, Gannon University, Erie, PA, United States
 
JAGSAT I: A NASA USIP CubeSat to Perform Measurements Of Plasma Density Irregularities In The Ionosphere For Scintillation Studies (513550)
Edmund A Spencer, Samuel Russ, Saeed Latif and Carlos Montalvo, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, United States
 
Results from the Space Physics Experiments on West Virginia’s STF-1 Cubesat Mission (561935)
Dimitris Vassiliadis1, Justin R. Morris2, Matthew D. Grubb3, Scott Zemerick4, John Lucas5, Majid Jaridi6, Earl S. Scime7, Gregory D. Lusk7, Timothy Cameron8, Mark D. Suder9, Matthew Lazo7, Michael E. Moran7 and Ollie M. Lehki7, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, IV&V, Fairmont, WV, United States, (3)Reliable Systems, Inc., Fairmont, United States, (4)TMC Technologies, Fairmont, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)West Virginia University, Industrial Engineering, Morgantown, WV, United States, (7)West Virginia University, Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, WV, United States, (8)ADNET Systems, Inc., Reston, VA, United States, (9)TMC Technologies, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
Lessons Learned from Early Opportunities Authentic Research Experiences for Underrepresented Minorities in Earth and Space Sciences (563112)
Prabhakar Misra, Howard University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Washington, DC, United States, William M. Farrell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Blanche W Meeson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Higher Education NASA GSFC Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Susan Hoban, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), Baltimore, MD, United States, Belay Demoz, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics & JCET, Baltimore, United States and Ricardo Sakai, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States
 
CatSat: Real Time Imaging and Ionospheric Sounding from a CubeSat (Invited) (567282)
Christopher Walker and Ewan S Douglas, University of Arizona, Department of Astronomy, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
SASSI2: Lessons Learned from a University-class Science-Driven Spaceflight Project (567886)
Zachary Putnam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aerospace Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Nicholas Zuiker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Aerospace Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
New Mexico Tech Student Satellite (NMTSat) (572945)
Anders Moller Jorgensen1, James Z Harris2, Aaron P Zucherman3, Sawyer Gill4, Alejandra Mayorg-Del Valle4, William Myers4, Skyler Fennell4, An Nguyen5, Olivia Schmelzel4, Matthew Landavazo4, Jordan A Klepper4, Daniel S Guillette4, Hien Bich Vo6, David Palmer7, Rebecca M Holmes7, Erik Stromberg8 and Adam Reynolds9, (1)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Elec, Socorro, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, United States, (5)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (8)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, United States, (9)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates LLC, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Impact of a High School Research Course on Participants at the Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-Graduate Levels (602238)
James M Danch, Woodbridge Township School District, Science, Woobridge, NJ, United States
 
Intern Experience in the Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) Program. (623579)
Heather A Fischer1, Dann Garcia2, Sheri Klug Boonstra3, Sanlyn Buxner4 and Martin Storksdieck1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Mars Space Flight Facility, ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Signal of Opportunity CubeSat for Ranging and Timing Experiments (SOCRATES) (627524)
Jenna Burgett1, Megan Birch2, Joel Runnels2, Trevor Knuth1, Athanasios Pantazides2, Kail Laughlin2, Abigail Valero2, Kyle Houser2, Aaron Nightingale2, Guarav Manda3, Andrew Mosin2, Ricardo Saborio2, Runsheng Ma2, Jeffrey Michael Chaffin4, Maxwell Yurs1, Kaj Erickson2, Amanda Gatto Llamas2, Demoz Gebre Egziabher1, Lindsay Glesener5 and University of Minnesota Small Satellite Research Lab, (1)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, United States
 
Trace Gas and Ozone Profile measurement in The Arctic Winter (629810)
Elizabeth Hernandez1, Edgar Bering III1, Robert W Talbot2, Nicole Molders3, Barry Leffer1, Gary A Morris4 and Megan Pina1, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)St. Edward's University, Austin, TX, United States
 
Lessons Learned from SPACE HAUC: An undergraduate CubeSat mission to demonstrate high bandwidth communication using a X-Band phased-array system (630931)
Supriya Chakrabarti1, Susanna C Finn1, Timothy Cook1 and Sanjeev Mehta2, (1)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
 
Using a Student Developed CubeSat to Study Electrodynamic Tether Propulsion (633990)
Brian E. Gilchrist1, Omar Leon2, Grant Miars1, Sven Gunnar Bilen3, Geoffrey Jenkins1, Declan Winship4, Wesley Faistenhammer4, David Yoon4, Derek Cheyne5, Ryan Barnhart6, Cade Wright6, Hao Tang6, Joeseph Lafayette6 and Yuchen Liu6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Applied Physics, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arborio, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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