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Case Studies
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| Title | Description | Resource type | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIAA CanSat project – University of Manchester | The Manchester CanSat Project was developed by a team of mainly 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate engineers. They took part in the 2017/18 AIAA & AAS CanSat competition held in Texas, USA, which… |
Blended learning | Program development |
| Drop your Thesis (Land 3U) | The Drop your Thesis competition gives University students from bachelor to PhD level the opportunity to perform scientific or technological research in microgravity conditions. Students are… |
Blended learning | Orbits and Trajectories |
| Project SunrIde - University of Sheffield Nova Rocket Innovation Design Engineering | Project SunrIde was the first student-led rocket design engineering team from the U.K. to compete in the Spaceport America Cup (SAC) 2018, the 2nd annual rocket engineering conference… |
Classroom practice and Student Engagement | Rocket Propulsion |
| Sheffield Cube Satellite – forming tomorrow’s Space Engineers, today | Along with the Sheffield Space Initiative (SSI) and the growing space interest at the University of Sheffield, students are developing the university’s very first satellite. Using NASA open source… |
Classroom practice and Student Engagement | Mechanical |
| Micrometeoroid Impact, Damage and Shielding Activity – The Open University | The Open University run a curricular activity on the impact, damage and shielding of micrometeoroids using a remotely operated optical microscope. The Damage Equations are used to… |
Curriculum and Content | Program development |
| Lunar Rover - The University of Surrey | The University of Surrey ‘Electronics and Amateur Radio Society’ (EARS) sent a team to compete in the UKSEDS Lunar Rover competition to design and build a rover to achieve an objective set by the… |
Classroom practice and Student Engagement | Payloads |
| Water Rockets - Bristol University | Based on a suggestion by Kingston University London, who run this as a curricular competition, Bristol SEDS ran a water rocket competition in October 2017 with the aim to have multiple teams… |
Classroom practice and Student Engagement | Rocket Propulsion |
| Space Missions Currently in Development/Operation Research Activity – UCL | University College London have run a curricular 2-week research project into space missions that are currently in development/operation for their MSc Space Science and Engineering students. The… |
Curriculum and Content | Program development |
| Extra-Curricular CanSat competition in 3 weeks - Bristol University | The University of Bristol have run an extra-curricular competition to design a satellite in a sodacan, or “CanSat” using a predesigned kit over a few weeks. 5 groups of 5 students entered,… |
Classroom practice and Student Engagement | Program development |
| Astrodynamics Mission Simulation – University of Leicester | The University of Leicester have run an Astrodynamics Mission Simulation 10-credit module over 8 weeks (2 full afternoon computer lab sessions per week) using NASA’s General Mission Analysis Tool… |
Blended learning | Orbits and Trajectories |