Earth and Space Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences

Projects

Design Projects

2012

  • Sanitizing Airlock for ISS Intelligent Lighting Control System

2011

  • Electric Propulsion Systems
  • Remote Image System Acquisition (RISA) – Space Camera 4 (SC4) Development

2010

  • Design of a Highly Efficient Horizontal-Axis Washing Machine for Lunar Habitat

2009

  • Design of a Crew Elevation Device for Lunar Lander
  • RISA Multispectral, Optical System Development

2007

  • Cardinal B.E.A.S.T. Advanced Robotic Technology
  • Cardinal Direction Advanced Robotic Technology
  • Cardinal D.E.E.P. Mars Drill Automation

2006

  • LUC [Lamar University Crew] Heat Pump for Thermal Control of Space Vehicles
  • Red Rover Advanced Robotics Technology – Object Avoidance
  • Heat Q12 Multi-Environment Evaporative Heat Sink
  • M.A.R.S. Advanced Robotics Technology

Reduced Gravity Projects

2012

  • Wave Dispersion on a Torsion Wave Machine in Accelerated Reference Frames

2011

  • Collection of Water Droplets and Mist by Electrostatic Fields

2008

  • Study of Vibrational Damping Effects of Grass-like Crops in a Microgravity Environment
  • Bounded Meniscus Geometry in Reduced Gravity

2007

  • Disturbances of Lunar Soil Simulant under Vacuum and Lunar Gravity Conditions

2005-2006

  • Electromagnetic Response of Magnetized and Non-magnetized Particles to Accelerations Between
  • Microgravity and 1.8 g’s

2003

  • Behavior of a System of Amall, Magnetized Particles in Reduced Gravity

2001

  • Advanced Pollination of Seeds in Microgravity

2000

  • ASTOR Space Tether Recoil Mitigation Test, Phase II

1999

  • ASTOR Space Tether Recoil Mitigation Test
  • Acceleration of a Tethered Mass in Microgravity

1996

  • A Gravity Simulation Experiment