UH Small-Sat HS Internship (Summer 2010)

The University of Hawaii's Small-Sat Summer Internship, supported by the College of Engineering and UH Small-Satellite Program, is intended to provide high school students with an interest in engineering by introducing them to spacecraft systems engineering. The internship encompasses a variety of activities, including PueoSat, a course that is offered to engineering students at UH, which serves as the Walk stage in the program's Crawl > Walk > Run > Fly teaching philosophy. Students who successfully complete this course are encouraged to participate in the Program's Run and Fly stages as upper-division undergraduate and graduate students.

This summer, the course is led by UH Small-Satellite Program students Alex Gao, James Ah Heong, and Monica Umeda.

The course will utilize the EyasSat, a fully functional nanosatellite designed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado Satellite Services, and a modified version of its accompanied curriculum. EyasSat demonstrates six traditional satellite subsystems of a satellite bus: Structural, Electrical Power (EPS), Data Handling (DH), Communications (Comm), Attitude Determination and Control (ADCS), and Thermal subsystems.

This SIP group is intended as an online classroom and meeting place for course instructors, participating students and affiliated faculty to post course material, homework assignments, related discussion topics, and relevant photos and videos.