Cleveland, OH -- 4 JAN 10
Carnegie Mellon University Student Works with NASA Hands-On USRP Internship
Ohio resident Matthew Bauch is a fall 2009 intern at NASA Glenn Research Center with the Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP). Bauch is working with the “Planar and Conformal Phased Array Antenna Analysis” project during his 15 week internship with NASA USRP.
Bauch is working with a NASA mentor to create software that predicts radiation patterns from antennas. Goals are to use the software in a manner to reverse-engineer the array geometry and antenna element phasing for a desired radiation pattern and antenna gain. This process could be for the phased array antenna as a stand-alone antenna or as a feed to a reflector antenna system. This software will describe the performance of the antennas to reduce time and complexity of the computational radiation pattern synthesis process.
“NASA is a great place to be because there are so many different things going on, but what I enjoy the most is the people. Everyone has their hand in some groundbreaking research. NASA reminds me a lot of a college campus in that everyone brings their own unique skill set and perspective to collaboratively tackle the world’s problems,” states Bauch.
Bauch is a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University from Tallmadge, OH. He expects to graduate with a dual major in electrical and computer engineering in May, 2012.
“I chose electrical and computer engineering as a major because I love to solve problems and I don’t know of another field with as many and as wide a variety of problems to be solved,” added Bauch.
Source: Anthony Zippay of the Universities Space Research Association
