Staff and students are invited to hear Dr. Melora Larson’s talk on Applying a Low Temperature Physics Education to a Space Engineering Career, 18:00 – 20:00, Thursday 22 January 2015, Room 1015, Building 32, Highfield Campus.
One might not expect that studying the fundamental physics of phase transition in liquid helium would lead a person to a successful career in engineering for space missions to probe the outer reaches of the Universe, but Dr. Melora Larson will use her life as an example to show one path from basic science to space systems engineering.
Dr. Melora Larson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, Dr. Melora Larson received her education at Stanford University (BS) and the University of California at Santa Barbara (Ph.D. in experimental low temperature physics). She has been involved with cryogenic engineering for about 30 years starting as an undergraduate with her undergraduate Honors thesis, which focused on an aspect of cryogenic engineering related to the Gravity Probe-B experiment.
Free pizza and drinks will be available. To book your place, please visit our Eventbrite page.