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Advanced Space Design Program

William W. Durgin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Francis C. Lutz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Copyright 1990 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Publisher website: http://store.asme.org/

Note: At the time of publication, the author William W. Durgin was affiliated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Currently, February 2008, he is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.

Abstract

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Advanced Space Design (ASD) Program provides project-based design experiences that combine a highly motivating, need-to-know experience with an integrative capstone design that draws on the know-how of practitioners in the profession. Mechanical engineering students work with their counterparts in electrical, chemical, and civil engineering to develop integrated packages of experiments to be conducted in the micro-gravity environment of space.

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William W. Durgin and Francis C. Lutz. "Advanced Space Design Program" Innovations for Mechanical Engineering Curricula for the 1990's (1990): 19-21.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wdurgin/29

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