Tecnológico de Monterrey to develop new measuring instrument for NASA

Tansania León/Tec de Monterrey/DICYT The Tecnológico de Monterrey's Guadalajara Campus is working on a new measuring instrument for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It is a tool similar to the solar Photometer that it developed for the agency, but that this time will measure the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.

Gloria Faus, professor of the Guadalajara Campus School of Engineering, Architecture and Health's Basic Science Department and Director for Mexico and Latin America of NASA's Education Group, broke the news.

The project will be carried out in coordination with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Netherlands' Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. At NASA, the scientists responsible for the measuring instrument will be Edward Celarier and Gloria Faus.

The electrical aspect will be overseen by José Luis Ponce, PhD., professor of the Tecnológico de Monterrey's Engineering Division, who will be working out of the Electronic Development Center of the Campus.

The professors will be aided by 12 students, who are majoring in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Electronic Technology Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Industrial Design, and Architecture.

The students that will take part in the project were chosen by Prof. Faus. They are a mix of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and they must work on the project until graduation.