A Team of Caltech Undergraduates Win 3rd Place AIAA Best Paper Award
05-11-23
Alongside Soon-Jo Chung, Bren Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, a team of Caltech EAS undergraduates have received the 3rd place AIAA Region VI Best Team Paper Award. The title of the paper is "SPAMMM – Solar Powered Array for Melting Materials on the Moon." Team members include Caltech undergraduates Parul Singh, Nathan Ng, Avi Patel, Camilo Garrido, Hazel Carey, Saren Daghlian, Kemal Pulungan, Sophie Polidoro, and Catherine Zheng; as well as research intern, Rasool Ray.
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AIAA International Student Conference Winners
01-25-22
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced the undergraduate, team, and graduate winners of the 2022 International Student Conference. Luis Pabon Madrid, Polina Verkhovodova, Malcom Tisdale, Isabella Dula, Kaila Coimbra, Tanmay Gupta, Leah Soldner, Rithvik Musuku, and Soon-Jo Chung, Bren Professor of Aerospace and Control and Dynamical Systems; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, received 1st place in the Team Category for "Design of a Modular and Orientable Electrodynamic Shield for Lunar Dust Mitigation." The International Student Conference is an invitation-only student conference where first-place winners from each of the previous year’s AIAA Regional Student Conferences present their winning papers. [AIAA story]
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Soon-Jo Chung
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Rithvik Musuku
Leah Soldner
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Kaila Coimbra
Isabella Dula
Malcom Tisdale
Polina Verkhovodova