Engineering Undergraduate Research Experience: Shantanu Sinha and Nathan Stonitsch
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 2021-06-27

Shantanu Sinha and Nathan Stonitsch were both part of small cohort of 17 students who received a stipend to participate as first-time undergraduate researchers at Purdue University during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Sinha and Stonitsch are part of a NASA-funded research team led by Davide Ziviani, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering, that is working on one of several projects at Purdue associated with the Resilient Extraterrestrial Habitats Institute (RETHi) https://www.purdue.edu/rethi/

The team is working to build a structure that can be cooled to -50 degrees Celsius in order to simulate the temperature that lunar habitat would experience under a layer of regolith insulation. This will ultimately will be a cyber-physical testbed where multiple research groups in RETHi can test habitat systems in a simulated lunar environment, but physically and through simulations. 

Full story:  http://bit.ly/rethi-cooling


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