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812 (Special Edition) |  Listen to the show! | | Aired on October 16th, 2007 | | Guests: Dr. Paul Mueller, Brian Van Roy, James Kendall Villarreal |
| Dr. Paul Mueller, James Kendall Villarreal, and Brian Van Roy were the guest for this special program to discuss the Intercollegiate Rocket Launch Competition. You can find out more about this exciting competition by visiting http://spacegrant.usu.edu/esra. Dr. Mueller started out with an explanation of the program and then both James and Brian talked about their teams, membership, funding, rockets, and technical issues. Listeners asked several questions ranging from the application of what they learn in these rocket programs on the academic level to what they might do in a career at NASA, ULA, or even a company such as Space-X. Listen to their answers to hear just how good these experiences are for future careers for students. One listener asked them about university and peer acceptance of their work and programs throughout the university setting, including students, administration, and other professors. You will find their responses to this question most interesting. All three talked about the various competitions, how they do their rockets and motors, fuel, and much more. This is an excellent program about college level student rocketry, educational outreach and it clearly makes the case to expand these activities to other schools and even into the upper grade levels of high school. From learning appropriate safety measures to team work, to the engineering and science needed to do this substantial rockets, these are outstanding programs with outstanding students as you will hear. The Space Show looks forward to doing more programming with these guests and other university rocket program. If you want to follow up with comments or questions for our guests, you can reach Dr. Mueller at pmueller@engineering.usu.edu; James Villarreal at 'james.villarreal@asu.edu; and Bran Van Roy at vanroyb@msoe.edu. |
| About our guests... |
Dr. Paul Mueller
Dr. Paul Mueller is the Chief Engineer for the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, the organizer of this event. He holds his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University. He was an engineer on the Space Shuttle program and has 95 hours flying backseat in F-16s. He is an adjunct assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at Utah State, and has been the advisor to their hybrid rocket project for the past ten years. Brian Van Roy
Brian Van Roy is the Laboratory Manager of the Fluid Power Institute at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He is currently a graduate student with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MSOE. Brian has been involved in the sounding rocket program competitions held by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium for the last three years and also competed in the national level competition in Utah. His teams have taken three fist place awards and one second.
James Kendall Villarreal
James Kendall Villarreal is a graduate student at Arizona State University working towards the completion of his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering. His current research focuses on electric propulsion and his future research topic will extend into hypersonics. James is a licensed private pilot and maintains a strong presence in his school as an officer of the ASU student chapter of AIAA, as well as project director for the past five years of Daedalus Astronautics, the sole rocket group on campus. James hopes to continue with his education after completion of his PhD with an MBA focusing on entrepreneurship, and he hopes to one day own or work for a small innovative space launch company.
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