John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences

Course evaluations for online courses are now available. Please take a moment to critique your professor’s teaching for the current semester courses. You will find the link to the course evaluation in red in your eZ control center. These evaluations will be available from April 20th through May 13th only.

A flood fight Flight- April 20, 2011 Rural Oslo, Minn. – the aircraft with the 10-foot wingspan was launched from a slingshot-like apparatus, using pressurized air. Within 12.5 feet, it was traveling at 60miles per hour. And, within seconds, it was producing video of Red River flooding. The prime mission of the ScanEagle, an unmanned […]

Summer Internship – X PRIZE Online Fundraising Research Our Alliances group is looking for a social media savvy summer intern to help develop X PRIZE Foundation’s Online and Mobile Fundraising strategy.  The project will research and review top companies in the social media, online and mobile fundraising space.  We are looking for an intern that […]

The Spring 2011 Space Studies Colloquium Series focuses on the general theme “Providing Space-Based Services to Remote Areas” and will feature several leading experts in the field. The fourth and final presentation in this series will feature Dr. Douglas McLennan, Project Manager of the ICESAT-2 Mission at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Topic:  […]

Svetlana Shkolyar, online space studies master’s student, will defend her thesis: When: Thursday, April 21st at 12:30 pm Where: Ryan Hall, Room 111 Title:  Intrinsic Sunspot Rotations and Their Potential Association with Solar Energetic Events Sunspots provide insight into the thermal and dynamic interaction between convection and magnetic fields, and their rotation rates provide important […]

L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) have signed agreements with UND to jointly establish an unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) training center at Grand Forks Air Force Base. UND and L-3 Link UAS Training Center, which is expected to begin operations in June 2011, will offer MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper UAS training opportunities to […]

Space Studies will be offering its annual “Orientation Week” prior to fall semester. This conference provides an opportunity to visit the UND campus, meet professors and on-campus students, participate in the official Graduate School orientation session, and tour the UND Campus, Space Studies labs, and the School of Aerospace facilities. There will also be sessions […]

On the heels of Rex Ginder being awarded the CFI of the Year for the State of Arizona (no small achievement), Rex Ginder was just called by the President of Chandler Gilbert College and informed that he was nominated and will be receiving the The Chandler-Gilbert Community College Teal & Silver Award as a business […]

LAKELAND, Fla., March 30, 2011 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today at the Sun ’n Fun International Fly-In & Expo in Lakeland, Fla., the University of North Dakota has ordered five new 172 Skyhawks to add to its training fleet. The Skyhawks are scheduled for delivery in July and […]

Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., voted Friday in favor of a bill that would create four new test sites for unmanned aircraft, a vital step for research and development of the industry. Berg, a member of the Unmanned Systems Caucus, voted in favor of the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011, which passed the house […]