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