College of Engineering
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 0808-1701
Course Coordinator: Anthony Marchese

This project, inspired by the NASA Mars Reference Mission, asks students to design a manned mission to Mars.  The faculty team provided a catalog of components and design options, such as power generators, propulsion systems, laboratory equipment, robots etc., that are available for this mission.  The students, working in teams of 3-4, are designing what they consider the optimal Mars mission, given a price limit of $1 billion.  To do this, the student teams must examine many questions.  These include technical matters such as, how much power is required, and which generation system provides it for the lowest cost?  There are also philosophical and social questions to be answered, such as: What exactly do we wish to accomplish by exploring Mars?  Do we have the right to exploit Martian resources however we wish, or the responsibility to study without interfering?

Each clinic team is also required to produce a technical process description, in which they examine one engineering process related to the mission in greater detail, and each individual student in Sophomore Clinic is required to write a research paper on issues of professional, ethical and/or social responsibility.  The teams will incorporate their findings from these projects into their mission design.

Faculty Supervisors
Dr. Kevin Dahm
Dr. Ravi Ramachandran
 

Mars Student Team Web Sites

Thursday  Lab

    Chris Foster, Michael McCarthy, William McCorkle, Brian Moore

    Benjamin Fratto, Stephen Gomba, Jessica Pointin, Shaun Rendall

    Japhet Delicana, Phillip Kulick, Brian Tobin, Kenneth Whelan

    Brian Cleary, Michael Lewitt, Laura Sorrentino, Jeremy Tyers

    Stephen Cauaretta, Jason Friedberg, Dennis Swiedo, Jason Wollenberg

    Jesse Condon, Ronald Galarza, Jeremy Stevenson, Paul Stokes
 

 Monday Lab

    Joe Cugino, Tom Kurzeja, Eric Rolf, Dheuvkumar Vyas

    Nick Pekula, Tom Rodriguez, Surafel Teferra, Brianne Wissel

    Michael Firth, Margaret Jacques, Lisa Lapinski, John Rotter

    Frank Brown, Aditya Chaubal, Jason Hearre, Leonard Rodriguez

    Jack Gamble, Mark Ghose, Matt Smith, Paul Terruso

    Michael DeGraff, David Kozdron, Michael Sterner, Jeff Tieman