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索科罗,N.M. – Four Tech students have been recognized by 美国国家航空航天局 and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium for their 研究项目 and academic excellence.

N.M. Space Grant Consortium recently announced the 26 美国国家航空航天局 fellowships and scholarships awarded to students across New Mexico, including three 威尼斯人app下载 graduate students who will receive $10,000 grants to conduct research. 此外，马克斯·霍利迪和 undergraduate in materials engineering, landed a competitive internship with at the 美国宇航局格伦研究中心.

The Tech graduate awardees are 希瑟Bloemhard, a doctoral student in physics; Daniel Guilette, a master’s student in electrical engineering; and 斯蒂芬•戴维斯, a doctoral 材料工程专业学生.

希瑟Bloemhard

Bloemhard will use her award for her dissertation research project titled, “Ground-Based 系外行星的特征.” Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other than 太阳

他是弗吉尼亚州格洛斯特的本地人., Bloemhard earned her bachelor’s at George Mason University. She is working on two projects related to exoplanets: her fellowship/dissertation research and NESSI, the 威尼斯人app下载 Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument. For her 美国国家航空航天局 fellowship, she is using data from the Infrared Telescope Facility, or IRTF，夏威夷莫纳克亚山顶. 她正在使用光谱数据来分析各种 系外行星的特征. 她还将在两个会议上发表研究成果.

She hopes to have a paper published later this summer about her work. 如果她成功了， 她说 she might apply to get more observing time at the IRTF.

“I have enough data for my dissertation, but with astronomers, more data is better,” 她说. “If I get a publication out, that would be really compelling evidence that my methods work and that would justify getting more time on the IRTF.”

Bloemhard said she was surprised that she received the fellowship – primarily because 她以前两次申请都没有成功.

斯蒂芬•戴维斯

斯蒂芬•戴维斯 will use his fellowship to continue his research into self-igniting 推进剂. His research project is titled, “Nitrous Oxide Hypergolic Propellants.”

与博士合作. Nadir Yilmaz of the Mechanical Engineering department, Davis is pursuing Ph值.D. 材料工程. 他的项目将包括热力学和流体学 mechanics on a nitrous oxide-based fuel that can be used for thrusters on small satellites. His goal is to find a propellant that is less toxic and corrosive that those currently 在使用.

“If you can minimize the hazards, you can ideally reduce the cost as well,” he said.

戴维斯在马里兰州埃奇伍德上的高中.他在新墨西哥大学获得学士学位 Tech in chemical engineering and his master’s in materials engineering.

“I’m excited to have some funding to continue my work and perhaps get a research paper 出版了，”他说.

丹尼尔Guillette

丹尼尔Guillette, a master’s student in electrical engineering, won his fellowship for a project titled, “Making CubeSat Integration Simpler.“与顾问博士合作. Anders Jorgenson, Guillette’s proposal relates to design and construction of “CubeSats,” which are miniature satellites about the size of a loaf of bread that are intended 作为高中生的学习工具.

“CubeSats were developed by Cal Tech to help high schools or others achieve space launch … but you still need a ton of information to achieve it,” Guillette said. “我们 proposing to take the structure of the satellites and try to integrate connects and smart routing data lines and power lines to simplify the process. 我的导师和我 propose building the satellite and space components into something like Lego blocks.”

They aim to be able to use 3-D printers to build the structure, upon which components 然后就可以安装连接器了. 这将允许简化定制.

This project will serve as Guillette’s master’s thesis. 最初来自洛斯阿拉莫斯， Guillette earned his bachelor’s at 威尼斯人app下载, also in electrical engineering. He has completed internships at the Air Force 研究 实验室 at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and hopes to pursue a career in space electronics or a similar space-related 合资企业.

马克斯·霍利迪

A rising senior 材料工程, 马克斯·霍利迪 is looking forward to his 10-week internship at the 美国宇航局格伦研究中心 in Cleveland, Ohio.

He said he was the top candidate chosen for his position out of more than 2,000 applicants 全国各地.

“I will be working on an individual project that has to do with nickel superalloys, 也是一个小组项目。”他说. “高温合金主要用于喷气工程师 和涡轮. You need strong alloys that can take a beating and withstand high temperatures 而且不会被腐蚀或氧化。”

He said his project is likely to include imaging, testing, stress-testing and microscopy 超级合金的. After the 10 week assignment, he will present my research at the 位于华盛顿特区的美国国家航空航天局总部.C.

霍利迪说他年轻时经常搬家. 他以圣达菲为家，但毕业了 从阿尔伯克基的高中毕业.

New Mexico Space Grant Consortium is a member of the congressionally funded National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program which is administered by the National Aeronautics 以及美国宇航局(美国国家航空航天局). 财团奖学金和奖学金 are competitively awarded based on application information, faculty recommendation, GPA, the research project, and its alignment to 美国国家航空航天局’s mission.