{"291641":{"#nid":"291641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Faculty Members Selected for Summer Program at JPL","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour Georgia Tech faculty members will spend part of their summer working alongside researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, collaborating on projects that include icy moon science and deep-space systems. This is the first summer program since Georgia Tech was recognized by JPL as one of its strategic university research partners. The Institute\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cstar.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Space Technology and Research\u003C\/a\u003E (C-STAR) selected the participants and is sponsoring the program to build collaborative research opportunities between JPL and Georgia Tech personnel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese competitively awarded research grants build on the strengths of both JPL and Georgia Tech,\u201d said Georgia Tech Professor and C-STAR Director Robert Braun. \u201cThey are designed to foster future research collaborations between these two institutions, and are well aligned with our nation\u2019s future needs in space science and space technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four faculty members and their projects are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Gunter (Assistant Professor, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering) \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUtilizing nano-satellite technology for improved monitoring of Earth\u2019s time-variable gravity\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Spencer (Professor of the Practice, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDeveloping Mars technology demonstration missions in lower Earth orbit and deep space micro-spacecraft\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPanagiotis Tsiotras (Professor, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering) \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAutonomous energy-projecting systems for robotic exploration of extreme environments\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Wray (Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003EIcy satellite surface compositions from infrared spectroscopy\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach faculty member will partner with relevant JPL researchers during the summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The C-STAR summer faculty program provides an excellent opportunity to connect leading Georgia Tech faculty with researchers at JPL,\u201d said JPL Chief Scientist Daniel McCleese. \u201cThe exciting projects chosen this year will open up new collaborations, and enhance both JPL and Georgia Tech\u0027s space science efforts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJPL will also fund a summer experience for Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering graduate student Peter Ngo to study low-cost, higher-risk flight projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EC-STAR is an interdisciplinary research center that serves to organize, integrate and facilitate the impact of Georgia Tech\u0027s space science and space technology research activities. C-STAR brings together a wide range of Georgia Tech faculty, active in space science and space technology research, and functions as the Georgia Tech focal point for growth of the space industry in the state of Georgia. Braun serves as the director. \u0026nbsp;Professor Thomas Orlando is the associate director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2012, Georgia Tech and JPL, a division of Caltech, formally entered into a strategic partnership designed to promote and encourage collaboration between the institutions, with a focus on research collaborations and personnel exchanges in science and engineering fields of mutual interest. C-STAR serves as the Georgia Tech focal point for this newly established partnership with JPL.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Meghan Feeney, Institute Communications Student Assistant\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour Georgia Tech faculty members will spend part of their summer working alongside researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, collaborating on projects that include icy moon science and deep-space systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Four faculty members are chosen to work with JPL researchers this summer."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2014-04-17 14:18:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:15","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cstar.gatech.edu\/","title":"CSTAR Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/150451","title":"Georgia Tech-JPL Partnership"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1325","name":"aerospace"},{"id":"91821","name":"C-STAR"},{"id":"6316","name":"JPL"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}