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Dr. Lembeck and Dr. Putnam are engineering professors in the University of Illinois Aerospace program. They both have experience in the private sector and spoke to me about the program at Illinois. We discussed the strengths of the program as well as partnerships with other schools, businesses, and government partners. We also discussed what it takes to get into the school’s graduate program.
0:32 – The professors highlight the strengths of the University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering program.
3:40 – The professors talk about some of the more interesting paths to take to graduate school.
5:39 – They discuss student interest in working for governments versus private companies.
6:33 – They discuss interesting projects that students have done before or during graduate school.
8:21 – They discuss other programs they’ve partnered with on engineering projects especially on cubesat programs.
10:45 – They talk about the businesses they’ve worked closely with.
11:50 – They discuss how the connections are made between the university and companies.
13:22 – They discuss useful conferences for networking.
14:26 – They talk government initiatives supporting university space engineering programs.
15:44 – They talk about state support for their work.
16:34 – They talk about some of the educational resources the program has.
19:53 – They talk about what the University has in place to process the data they get from their satellites.
20:45 – They talk about challenges in the development of space technology and in STEM.
24:08 – They talk about how many US students they have versus non US.
25:34 – They talk about what excites them most about space.
28:04 – They talk about whether we should go to the Moon or Mars first and they
address the aging space workforce and space debris.
31:12 – They discuss space debris and the ethics of launching huge constellations.
33:17 – The professors discuss the strengths of their school’s program.
Links of interest
https://aerospace.illinois.edu/
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Guests: Dr. Michael Lembeck and Dr. Zachary Putnam
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: space, exploration, commercialization, science, aerospace, boeing, space, graduate students, spacex, commercial cargo, blue origin, cubesat, payload, freezethaw, northwestern, bradley university, northrup grumman, nano, artemis, clean room, operations room, NASA, US Air force, ITAR
