Past Student Opportunities
Undergrad Advanced Lab
Students learn physics through new or advanced experiments.
Space Instrument Design Class
Students worked in small groups to develop, build, and test a small instrument that was flown to a 20-mile altitude on a meteorological balloon provided by Iowa State University.
Sounding Rocket Field School
Josh Larson and fellow undergraduate Hannah Gulick traveled to Norway in February 2018 as the first UI students—and the first Americans—to participate in an intensive, four-and-a-half-day international program to design, build, and fly a sounding rocket toward the atmosphere’s outer boundaries.
Undergraduate Research
Jason Homann
Dr. Miles was a faculty mentor for Jason Homann, an undergraduate Physics and Astronomy student. Homan's undergraduate research projects included:
- Sensing Oxygen and Nitrogen Composition (SONiC), a proposed mission to fabricate an experimental payload instrument capable of measuring the relative abundances of diatomic nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2) gases within Iowa's atmosphere. Homan and his student colleagues presented a poster on SONiC at the 2022 Fall Undergraduate Research Festival.
- Working Towards Developing Fluxgate Magnetometers to be Used in Constellation Missions, funded by the Iowa Space Grant Consortium