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ESMD Space Grant Systems Engineering Paper Competition

Congrats and thank you to all who participated. Information on the winning teams is posted below.

NASA's System Engineering Handbook:

This handbook is provided to acquaint teams on the guidelines for good systems engineering practices unique to NASA.

Click here to download the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook. (Revised 12/2007)




Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 ESMD Systems Engineering Paper Competition:

Picture of the Team Hokie students

Team Hokie  of  Virginia Tech
with their paper on the topic of
"CANSAT: Design of a Small Autonomous Sounding Rocket Payload"  (PDF Download)

And

Team Taurus students

Team Taurus  of  Rice University
with
their paper on the topic of
"Bone Remodeling Monitor"  (PDF Download)



Congratulations to the winners of the 2008 ESMD Systems Engineering Paper Competition:

Picture of ESMD Space Grant Systems Engineering Paper 1st and 2nd Place Winners from Georgia Tech

First Place:
Team LEXco of Georgia Institute of Technology
with their paper on the topic of
"Yamato - Bringing the Moon to the Earth... Again"  (PDF Download)

Second Place:

Team SALEH "say-lee" of Georgia Institute of Technology
with
their paper on the topic of
"WOLF What's on the Lunar Farside"  (PDF Download)

Third Place:
The Virginia Tech CanSat Team of Virginia Tech
with their paper on the topic of
"CanSat Competition" (PDF Download)


Congratulations to the winners of the 2007 ESMD Systems Engineering Paper Competition:

First Place:
Team Purdue of Purdue University
with their paper on the topic of
"iPhone in NASA Ground Operations" (PDF Download)

Second Place:

BLASST Space Systems of Georgia Institute of Technology

with their paper on the topic of
"PHAROS: Shedding Light on the Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis" (PDF Download)

Third Place:
GT South of Georgia Institute of Technology
with their paper on the topic of
"ESAS-Derived Earth Departure Stage Design for Human Mars Exploration"
(PDF Download)


2007 Competition Winners from Purdue University

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