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Preliminary examinations
Congrats to Collin Whittaker and Tate Gill for successfully passing their preliminary exams and becoming PhD candidates! And congrats to Thomas Marks for passing his preliminary exam in computational fluid dynamics as part of fulfilling the requirements for the...
Best craft – Ethan Dale!
Our seventh quarantine lab meeting had Ethan Dale winning "Best Craft" with his custom made rubber stamps!
Best pitch – Leanne Su
In our sixth remote lab meeting, we presented "pitches" for our research work. Leanne Su, pictured here with her companion for the week, a photo of her Euchre partner, Austin Brenner, won the pitch day with her slide on designing Hall thrusters with Krypton propellant...
Best trinket – Pete Dahl
In our fifth remote lab meeting, Pete Dahl won Best Trinket with his Apollo 11 Medal!
Favorite book – Prof. Benjamin Jorns!
In our fourth lockdown lab meeting, we all shared our favorite books. Professor Ben Jorns's pick left everybody wondering: "Is Ben Team Jacob or Team Edward?". We may never know.
Best outfit – Tate Gill!
Our third lockdown lab meeting had Tate Gill winning "Best outfit" with his Apollo-Era NASA Engineer outfit!
Crazy mug day
More fun during the lockdown: crazy mug/drinking vessel day during our weekly lab meeting. Thomas Marks won with his LEGO space station mug!
Silly hat day in the lab
Having some fun with virtual lab meeting: silly hat day. Our winner for best hat, Matt Byrne! All of the other...
Featured article in Physics of Plasmas
Our newest Physics of Plasmas article on non-classical electron transport in a cathode plume was selected as a featured article!
PSST Publication
Check out our new PSST article on background pressure effects on magnetic nozzles!