Partnership II
Institution:
California State University, Los Angeles.
Goal:
The
goal is to provide interdisciplinary education to enhance the studentsÂ’
knowledge and skills in both engineering and space science.
Faculty: Charles Liu and Jianyu Dong (Dept. of Electrical Engineering), Susan Terebey (dept. of Physics and Astronomy).
Students: Sonny Orellana, Thanh Tran, and Lei Zhao, Michael Wai, Anne Sullivan, Ignacio Sanchez, Jenny Martinez.
Education components
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Field
trip on Friday May 13th,
2005
to NASA Goldstone. We toured radio telescopes of the Deep Space Network.
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Field
trips
to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We toured the Microelectronics Device Lab
and the Mars Sandbox.
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Lecture
entitled “The Search for Extrasolar Planets,” which reviewed the searches
that are currently underway for planets around other stars.
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Seminars
and workshops on various space science topics: students obtained fundamental
knowledge in space science, and were exposed to some widely used
astronomical software package such as IDS, SkyView, and IRAF.
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Training
courses on astronomical image processing.
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Continually
attending the Physics and Astronomy colloquia.
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Attended
regular meetings of the Physics Club, and participated in related activities
such as astronomy workshops at the California Science Center at Zzyxx, CA.
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A
course - EE 454 Real-time Multimedia Systems - is currently being developed
to provide students with knowledge of a client-and-server model of real-time
operations for interdisciplinary applications.
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Other
courses include PHYS 311 Elements of Modern Astronomy and PHYS 412 Lab
Applications of Minicomputers and Microcomputers.
Publications [View all publications]
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S.
Orellana, “Automated Object Detection for Astronomical Images,” Satellite
and Education Conference XVIII NOAA,
Los Angeles, August, 2005.
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A.
Sullivan, “Searching for New Stars,” Satellite and Education Conference
XVIII NOAA, Los Angeles, August,
2005.