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A few times a year, Human Connections organizes GETs (Global Engagement Trips) for student groups, tourists, and other visitors eager to gain a better understanding of the local culture in Nayarit, Mexico. This particular GET group, from Northern Illinois University, participated in a week long program centered around social entrepreneurship, NGO management, and sustainable development.
Learn more about HC and our GET programs:
This is for one of the stories in the Five in a Row series. The cookbook had a variety of recipes to bring the book to live through food.
A large group of workshop participants build a new addition to our Botanic Garden, an Herb Spiral, under the guidance of local Permaculture expert, Barb Hazenveld in this half day workshop. Talk about "hands-on" and a "group" project! Everyone did their part - way to go guys!
This is for one of the stories in the Five in a Row series. The cookbook had a variety of recipes to bring the book to live through food.
University of Michigan students smile as their team’s heavily wrapped cubesat is launched as part of Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. This was the final of four student-designed cubesats, each carried into the stratosphere by a large helium-filled balloon. After launch, the students began getting data from their cubesats and began following them from the ground expecting them to land somewhere between Tecumseh and Saline, Michigan later that afternoon.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
This is an ATC that I made for an ABC/alphabet book for my daughter, Olivia.
On each of the pages, there are 2 ATCs - one that I made and one that I collected from another person.
This ATC is the standard size (2 1/2" x 3 1/2"). The 16 beads are hand-sewn on. The decorative trim along the neckline and hemline are hand-embroidered using the back stitch.
The dress is blanket-stitched onto the front of the card, and then the front of the card is blanket-stitched onto a felt backing.
Another version of this card (without the letter "D") is available in my shop. Please see my Flickr profile for the link to my shop.
Principia, academics, art, ceramics, classroom, experiential learning, hands on learning, pottery, school, students, upper school
Student participate in professor Chad Kraus Dirt Works studio class, working on a SOLAR DECATHLON BUILD CHALLENGE.
2023 Solar Decathlon Build Challenge Participant: providing net-zero energy housing while pushing the boundaries of natural materials
From left, Ryan Feng, Emily Keller, and Ruichang Chen speak with Graduate Student Instructor Stanley Lewis in Peter Gaskell’s ROB 550, Robotic Systems Laboratory in the Ford Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
The course is a multidisciplinary laboratory course with exposures to sensing, reasoning, and acting for physically-embodied systems. Intro to kinematics, localization and mapping, planning, control, user interfaces. Design, build, integration, and test of mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Final view of the final cubesat from Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes to be launched from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022. After launch, the students began getting data from their cubesats and began following them from the ground expecting them to land somewhere between Tecumseh and Saline, Michigan later that afternoon.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
The Mozingo Outdoor Education Recreation Area (MOERA) is a 320-acre parcel of land situated on beautiful Mozingo Lake. MOERA is operated by the Department of Health and Human Services and provides a variety of outdoor education and recreation opportunities, including a ropes challenge course. (Photo by Darren Whitley/Northwest Missouri State University)
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View of University of Michigan students and their final cubesat launch, which was part of Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Levi Hutmacher/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Gabriela Chia, left, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, and Graduate Student Instructor Jillian Haas, a masters student in aerospace engineering, make final preparations as they and other teams prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Cearra Mihal, a senior anthropology major, inspects a tooth as part of a longterm project identifying human remains.
Ryan Feng, a graduate student in Robotics, opens Probabilistic Robotics on his laptop in Peter Gaskell’s ROB 550, Robotic Systems Laboratory in the Ford Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
The course is a multidisciplinary laboratory course with exposures to sensing, reasoning, and acting for physically-embodied systems. Intro to kinematics, localization and mapping, planning, control, user interfaces. Design, build, integration, and test of mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
From left, Gabriela Chia, and Madeline Purvis, both undergraduates in aerospace engineering, and Associate Professor James Cutler, as students prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Four teams of students in Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes, along with graduate student instructors and other assistants gather for a group photo at the base of their helium-filled ballons as they prepare to launch four student-designed cubesats into the stratosphere from the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Engineer Tran Anh Nguyen, right, and Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler, center, examine a helium canister as teams of students prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Soonhyeong Choi, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working in Peter Gaskell’s ROB 550, Robotic Systems Laboratory in the Ford Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
The course is a multidisciplinary laboratory course with exposures to sensing, reasoning, and acting for physically-embodied systems. Intro to kinematics, localization and mapping, planning, control, user interfaces. Design, build, integration, and test of mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Bark Carving Creations – Wood Spirit Faces, a group of beginner carvers set out with hand tools and lovely pieces of bark to carve a wood spirit face in this full day workshop (July 2011)under the guidance of area artisan, Linda Shantz. Don't miss this year's 2 carving workshops: Celtic Love Spoons ( T • Jul 17 • 1–5pm) and Lighthouses (W • Jul 18 • 9am–4pm)!
Gabriela Chia, left, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, and Graduate Student Instructor Jillian Haas, a masters student in aerospace engineering, make final preparations as they and other teams prepare to launch four cubesats as part of AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Nick Bayer, a senior graphic design major, works with other students in a printmaking lab in the renovated Coover Hall
Tim Galmiche, left to right, a masters student in space engineering, Rohan Chandratre, Rohan Madathil, both masters students in aerospace engineering, and Shun-Yu Yang, a masters student in space engineering, make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Jeremy Punch, a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering program, right, and Rohan Chandy, an undergraduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program working on their robot for Peter Gaskell’s ROB 550, Robotic Systems Laboratory in the Ford Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
The course is a multidisciplinary laboratory course with exposures to sensing, reasoning, and acting for physically-embodied systems. Intro to kinematics, localization and mapping, planning, control, user interfaces. Design, build, integration, and test of mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Shun-Yu Yang, left, a masters student in space engineering, and Rohan Chandratre, center, a maters student in aerospace engineering, make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
A few times a year, Human Connections organizes GETs (Global Engagement Trips) for student groups, tourists, and other visitors eager to gain a better understanding of the local culture in Nayarit, Mexico. This particular GET group, from Northern Illinois University, participated in a week long program centered around social entrepreneurship, NGO management, and sustainable development.
Learn more about HC and our GET programs:
University of Michigan students beginning to launch four helium-filled balloons and the student designed cubesats they carry as part of Associate Professor James Cutler s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Engineer Tran Anh Nguyen, center, with Noah Eckert, left, and Christian Henderson, right, both undergraduates in aerospace engineering, begin to inflate a balloon with helium to carry four cubesats designed by students in Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes into the stratosphere when they launch from the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Kavan Shah, a graduate student in the Robotics program, working in Peter Gaskell’s ROB 550, Robotic Systems Laboratory in the Ford Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
The course is a multidisciplinary laboratory course with exposures to sensing, reasoning, and acting for physically-embodied systems. Intro to kinematics, localization and mapping, planning, control, user interfaces. Design, build, integration, and test of mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Minori Higashiyama, center to right, Erin Levesque, Kian Molani, all masters student in aerospace engineering, prepare to launch their team’s student-designed cubesat as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Soonhyeong Choi, a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working in Peter Gaskell’s ROB 550, Robotic Systems Laboratory in the Ford Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Tuesday, February 1, 2022.
The course is a multidisciplinary laboratory course with exposures to sensing, reasoning, and acting for physically-embodied systems. Intro to kinematics, localization and mapping, planning, control, user interfaces. Design, build, integration, and test of mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
A few times a year, Human Connections organizes GETs (Global Engagement Trips) for student groups, tourists, and other visitors eager to gain a better understanding of the local culture in Nayarit, Mexico. This particular GET group, from Northern Illinois University, participated in a week long program centered around social entrepreneurship, NGO management, and sustainable development.
Learn more about HC and our GET programs:
Cole Helsel, left, an undergraduates in aerospace engineering, and other University of Michigan students beginning to launch four helium-filled balloons and the student designed cubesats they carry as part of Associate Professor James Cutler s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes from Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
From left, Tim Galmiche, and Will Moll, both masters student in space engineering, Rohan Chandratre, a masters student in aerospace engineering, Rohan Madathil, a masters student in aerospace engineering, Shun-Yu Yang, a masters student in space engineering, make last minute adjustments to their team cubesat before launch as part of James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes at the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022. In the background are Will Moll, left, and Rohan Chandratre, both maters student in aerospace engineering.
After final adjustments Cutler and his students drove to Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis to launch the cubesats, which would then be carried in the stratosphere eastward to approximate just east of Tecumseh.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Madeline Purvis, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, and others inflate a helium balloon, one of four, to carry cubesats designed by students in Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes into the stratosphere when they launch from the Plumb Lake County Park near Sturgis, Michigan on Tuesday morning, December 6, 2022.
The goal of the courses is to give students the opportunity to design and build complex satellite-like flight vehicles. The high-altitude balloons, which are filled with helium, rise into the stratosphere emulating some key aspects of spaceflight. According to Graduate Student Instructor Gage Bergman, "The stratosphere is an extreme environment, it experiences vast temperature differences, and also requires students to develop robust and reliable systems because once a balloon is released, there is no way to retrieve it - just like actual spaceflight.” Bergman is a masters student in aerospace engineering.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing