Abstract

The Space Engineering Research Center at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California is driving to deliver its second spacecraft vehicle for launch in June of 2012. It marks the next level of achievement for a center that uses a teaching hospital model that combines industry professionals and research professors and their students to execute six projects in as many years and propel the academic and professional careers of nearly one-hundred undergraduate, master’s and graduate students. This paper describes the implementation of this approach, some student’s eye views of the process and an overview of past and current projects.

Date

September 22, 2025

Authors

David Barnhart, Joseph Kunc, Daniel Erwin, Tim Barrett, Rahul Karkhanis, Emin Vartania, Maria Guzman, Siamak Hesar

Book

AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference & Exposition

Pages

7226