One of the main reasons I chose UMD was its amazing aerospace program. UMD has so many amazing opportunities offered within its engineering department, and there are so many ways to get involved and meet new people!

 

The best experience I have had for a class project was in my ENAE100 class where my group got to collaborate with the UMD Nearspace Balloon Payload Program. It was such a bonding experience having to wake up at 2 am and pile into a freezing van on launch day!

 

ENAE 283 – Introduction to Aerospace Systems

 

ASTR120 Introductory Astrophysics - Solar System

 

AstroTerps
Terrapin Rocket Team
Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics (WIAA)
FIRE The First-Year Innovation & Research Experience

 

My favorite on-campus event is the farmers markets that take place at Tawes Plaza on Wednesdays! They always have such amazing local goods to check out featured from producer-only local vendors from within 250 miles of College Park. Every farmer and producer selling at the market grows or makes what they sell themselves!

 

I haven’t gone abroad yet, but I am headed to Madrid for a semester abroad soon and I’m super excited about it!

 

A cool engineering experience I have had was being able to connect all the skills I have learned from my engineering classes and apply them to my research project for my Project Greenhouse FIRE class to build a methane sensor and detect emissions across different buildings on campus.