Midshipmen having fun with Aerospace Engineering

The laboratory facilities, electronic classroom, and satellite station provide an educational experience beyond comparison to nearly any other under-graduate institution. The department provides students with hands-on learning above and beyond what could take place in the traditional classroom setting. These photos provide insight into those opportunities.

A Midshipman built satellite orbits the earth!  The Kodiak Launch Facility is where PCSAT was placed aboard the launch vehicle, a Lockheed Martin Athena I solid fuel rocket.

Midshipmen during a field trip to the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School

Midshipmen conducting an aerodynamics lab with one of the subsonic wind tunnels.

Here some midshipmen are on a field trip to Patuxent Naval Air Warfare Center to watch some preliminary testing of a Super Hornet prototype.

These midshipmen are in the astronautics track of Aerospace Engineering and are learning about the Satellite Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). The astronautics track's recent addition is the Space Systems Laboratory, located in the Electronic Classroom where these midshipmen are working on the terminals.