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What’s in a name?

Posted on January 10, 2014 by sara

All great project start somewhere and all great projects have a name. Some names are abbreviations of their true meaning and some are just for fun. After our team had Continue Reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged CATE, CATE Winslet, Kate Winslet, NASA, SLOTH, Space, space things, UCF Physics, USIP

Meet the Team: Chris Tiller

Posted on January 7, 2014 by sara

Name: Christopher Tiller DOB: May 23rd, 1993 Major: Physics Class Standing: Junior Chris is a third year Physics major at the University of Central Florida. In high school he was Continue Reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged Astrophysics, CATE, Chris Tiller, hawk, Liam Neeson, NASA, parabolic flights, Physics, UCF Physics

3D Printing

Posted on December 18, 2013 by sara

BY| Sara Lane I have heard of 3D printing before, but I had never actually seen it happen before. I was oddly excited to see this little machine in action Continue Reading →

Posted in Videos | Tagged 3D printing, CATE, NASA, UCF, UCF research

Electrical versus Mechanical

Posted on December 17, 2013 by sara

BY| Kelly Lai and Brad Hoover The electrical prototype will utilize muscle wire, which is a shape-memory alloy, and various torsion springs to achieve the requested results. First, the launching Continue Reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged Brad Hoover, CATE, Electrical, human interaction, Kelly Lai, Mechanical, Microgravity, Muscle Wire, NASA, prototypes, UCF Physics, UCF research, USIP

Prototype Presentations

Gallery

Posted on December 15, 2013 by sara
A person is working on an electrical device, adjusting components on top of a gray box, in a room with various equipment and tools.

This gallery contains 1 photo.

In this meeting, Kelly and Brad presented the prototypes they built to Dr. Colwell and Addie. If you want to know more about the prototypes, read our meeting recap from Continue Reading →

Posted in Galleries, Uncategorized | Tagged CATE, Kelly Lai, Microgravity, NASA, Prototype, UCF, UCF NASA, UCF research

Meet the Team: Sam Benjamin

Posted on November 19, 2013 by sara

Name: Samuel Benjamin Age: 19 Major: Photonic Sciences and Engineering Class Standing: Junior   Sam was born and raised in Orlando. Science has always captured his interest and playing music Continue Reading →

Posted in Blog | Tagged CATE, Sam Ben, Sam Benjamin, UCF, UCF Physics, Undergraduate Research

Nerd Club Presentation

Posted on November 6, 2013 by sara
A group of 14 people standing in a room, posing for a photo. Behind them, a projector displays a slide titled "Center for Micro Research." A laptop and a drink bottle are on a table in front.

Brad and Kelly presented to the Nerd Club at UCF. The presentation was opened by Brad with a general overview of experiments that are taking place in the lab with Continue Reading →

Posted in Videos | Tagged CATE, Microgravity, NASA, Nerd Club, parabolic flights, PRIME, UCF, UCF Nerd Club, undergraduate presentation

CATE Proposal Video

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Posted on October 27, 2013 by sara

By: Sara Lane Back in April when we were preparing the proposal to send to NASA for the USIP funding, we created a video to capture what each student was Continue Reading →

Posted in Videos | Tagged CATE, CATE Winslet, Collisional Accretion, NASA, Saturn, Space, UCF, Undergraduate Research, USIP

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