Success In Engineering Education (SEE) Summer Bridge Program
The Success in Engineering Education (SEE) Summer Bridge program included 35 young men and women who are incoming engineering freshman. The program is run by the CEDAR center at ASU and historically inlcudes underrepresented and female minorities. The students live on campus for 5 weeks during the summer, take a 3-credit english class and are given week long review courses in math, physics, computers, and chemistry. Daedalus members spent two weeks with this program, performing a twist on our outreach program using the Estes1463 rocket kits. In addition to just building the rockets, the students were also asked to solve for the center of pressure of the rockets (using the Barrowman equations) and to build a program (most students used Microsoft Excel) to calculate the final altitude of their rocket. In addition, the rockets were designed and built to carry a small altimeter (PerfectFlite Alt15k/WD) so they could compare their target altitude with their predicted altitude. The results came out quite well, and the winners came within 20 feet of their predicted altitude!
Videos:
- MVI_1784.mov (Perfect launch and recovery)
- MVI_1797.mov (Early deployment of parachutes prior to apogee. GREAT example of altimeter reporting)
- MVI_1803.mov (Improper placement of fins, i.e. CP ahead of CG)
- MVI_1813.mov (Good launch, but needed more parachutes for a softer landing. Thomas crushed it whilst trying to catch the rocket)
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