Senior Wins Big Helping Build Cable for NASA
April 4, 2017
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Systems engineering senior Kyel Powell can now add "award-winning author" to his resume.
He co-authored a paper, "Space-Rated Fiber Optic Cable Design for NASA's Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield Spectrometer," with his interdisciplinary capstone design team, and their work just took second place in the Technical Paper division at the 2017 AIAA Region VI Student Conference.
The team's NASA-sponsored project is a custom fiber optic cable assembly for the upcoming Exploration Mission 1, which will test the Orion spacecraft's reentry capabilities.