Testing a student project in the real world is one thing. Sending a project out of the world to test it, as these female aerospace students, did is something else.
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UT’s WIALD Women Reach the Edge of Space
By Kendra Harris, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Published: June 12, 2012 -
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This is so cool! What an incredible project to undertake and accomplish! Fantastic work!
Are you intending to see how they fly--in a Hardware in the Loop Lab? You can probably design and perfect some usable flight software, and simulate flight conditions. Are you going to report your test results in some scholarly journal? Which was the best IMU? Would you assign certain gyros or accelerometers to particular axes? Do you have some sisters assigned to develop a WIALD (or something like that) rocket? Do you have some sisters working on