Alan Levin Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

The strong showing marks the club's best finish at the international contest in more than 25 years of competing at the organization's largest and most important competition of the year.

Classroom to the cosmos: Interdisciplinary Wildcat Space Program to launch real-world satellite space mission
At Kansas State University, students in the Wildcat Space Program are learning exactly what it takes to leave their own mark on the sky — in part by building a satellite themselves. In Paul Snider’s CubeSat class in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, K-State students are getting hands-on experience with the various complexities of satellite design, fabrication, research and launch.