ECE Expeditions visits NASA

For the 2023 ECE Expeditions Texas program, students toured NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Space Center Houston.

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is one of NASA’s largest research and development facilities, and it is the home of mission control and astronaut training. It currently leads the International Space Station operations and missions, as well as the development of the Orion spacecraft and NASA’s Gateway outpost program.

Space Center Houston is a leading science and space exploration learning center and Smithsonian Affiliate museum. It features more than 400 space artifacts, exhibits, and experiences that tell the story of the past and future of NASA’s human space-flight program.

ECE Expeditions is a program at the University of Michigan that takes current undergrad, masters, and PhD students in Electrical and Computer Engineering on tours of different companies to learn about the day-to-day life of working electrical and computer engineers.

Students toured government labs, including an anechoic chamber, and tested new heads up display technology for space suits. They also met with alums Adam Schlesinger, the project lead engineer for the Gateway Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), Ami Killeen (Yang), and Pooja Desai. U-M CSE PhD student Andrew Loveless led a tour of the Space Center Museum.

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