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

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Photographer: Jonathan Heisler, Hofstra University Photographer

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)!

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Shivam Patel, a masters student in computer engineering, hands part of the “train” that precedes the cubesat to Cole Dorman, a PhD student in climate and space sciences and engineering, as they launch one of four helium-filled balloons which carry the cubesats into the stratosphere 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 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

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Residential Landscape Design Studio invited participants to bring in their Real Property Reports and with the professional guidance of Angela Sommers, they were instructed to start to redesign their own property designs! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - Don't miss this year's Acreage Landscape Design workshop on Th • Jul 19 • 9am–5pm!

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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

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

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

This ACEO (Art Cards, Editions and Originals) features a hand-embroidered blue elephant strolling along in a meadow...taking the time to enjoy the flowers along the way.

This orignally-designed card is made with acrylic felt.

Cotton embroidery floss is used for stitching the design to the front of the card. The blanket-stitch attaches the card to a felt backing.

This ACEO is a wonderful, sensory learning tool for children who love art. I am using another version of this card in an ABC/alphabet book for my daughter as she learns her alphabet and how to read.

ACEOs are the perfect size for little hands to play with and enjoy...especially those who love to experience art and learn through the sense of touch.

This ACEO is available in my shop. Please see my Flickr profile for the link to my shop.

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

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

Roei Shlagman, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, making final checks as he and other students in Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes make final preparations for launch from 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, 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

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

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

Rohan Madathil, a masters student in aerospace engineering, left to right in foreground, 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. In the background are Will Moll, left, and Rohan Chandratre, both masters students 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

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

Tim Galmiche, left to right, a masters student in space engineering, and Rohan Madathil, a masters student 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

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

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

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

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Tim Galmiche, left to right, a masters student in space engineering, and Rohan Madathil, a masters student 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

High school students get hands on with Japanese relics from WW-2.

From left, Rajiv Govindjee, a masters student in aerospace engineering, Bennett Lawson, a masters student in space engineering, and Ashwin Anandakumar, a masters 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

Christian Henderson, left, an undergraduate in aerospace engineering, and Emma Esquivel, a masters student in space engineering, 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. In the background left is Jiasheng Tang, left, a masters student in aerospace engineering.

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 engineering students in Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor James Cutler’s AEROSP 495 and 740 classes inflate a balloon with helium to carry one of four cubesats 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

Associate Professor James Cutler, center, speaks with students as they 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. 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

Tooth of C. megalodon - the largest shark that ever lived. Photo by John A Kilmer - University of Florida

University of Michigan students preparing 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

Will Moll, left to right, a masters student in aerospace engineering, Tim Galmiche, a masters student in space engineering, Rohan Madathil, Rohan Chandratre, 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