Info Session |Tuesday, April 17th
1:00pm – 2:30pm |Pierce 209
***Food will be provided***

SpaceX is looking for talented Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Engineers to design, build, test and fly our next generation of rocket launch vehicles. We are hiring interns, co-ops and full-time new graduate employees for positions across the company and at all academic levels. On December 8, 2010, SpaceX made history by bringing our Dragon capsule safely back to Earth after two orbits around the planet. This feat marks the first timeever a commercial company has successfully recovered a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit. Please join us for an information session discussing the tremendous technical challenges involved with spacecraft re-entry, recovery and reusability.

All interested students are invited; seating is first-come-first-served.

**FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED**

SPACEX HISTORY & RECRUITING OVERVIEW

Presented by Meagan Karagias – Outreach Representative

TECHNICAL OVERVIEW: The Business of Revolutionizing Rockets

Presented by Jamie Hadden – Mission Integrator

SpaceX is a US based rocket company founded by Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. Musk is currently the residing CEO and CTO at SpaceX and also the Chief Product Architect and CEO of Tesla Motors.

SpaceX builds rockets from the ground up; including electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engines. At SpaceX we cut through the noise and believe in the essentials of hands-on, hardcore engineering.

We build it, test it, and fly it.

Jamie Hadden studied Physics at Harvey Mudd College, and subsequently worked at Northrop Grumman designing and operating space systems. He has been with SpaceX for two years. Jamie is a Mission Manager at SpaceX, responsible for the programmatic, technical and financial success of SpaceX’s first two geosynchronous telecommunications satellite launches, planned for early 2013.

The year-long class, required for engineering sciences bachelors of science concentrators, challenged students to identify and respond to real-world engineering challenges, according Robert J. Wood, ES100 lecturer and an associate professor of electrical engineering.

“For the engineering students, it’s a direct application of the knowledge they have accrued over their time here,” Wood said. “They’re able to take the theory and put it into practice to make optimal design choices.”

For more information, check out the Crimson!

We have some great news: last fall, 80 sophomores declared engineering as their concentration!

There’s a need for upperclassmen (juniors and seniors) to act as peer advisers (a.k.a. engineering Big Sibs) for the new engineering students. Help them avoid the pitfalls and difficulties of getting an engineering degree at Harvard without experiencing the same learning curve that you did. Your experience is invaluable, and if you take the time to pass it on to the new students it will strongly improve their undergraduate experience. Please sign up using the application form!

Note: to those who signed up for the big sib/little sib program last fall (all 21 of you), thank you so much for your response! If you remember filling out the form, you do not need to do it again; we already have your info!

Love,
HCES Board

Cambridge, Mass. – January 27, 2012 – When the “next big thing” is invented in a dorm room, ruminated over in a late-night café, or discovered in a laboratory, it will now find more support in—and its inventors will have better reasons to stay connected to—the Cambridge area.

 Getting ready for Survival Kit delivery!

On Thursday, January 26 2012, HCES delivered 81 Engineering Survival Kits to incoming Engineering Sciences (and Bioengineering) Concentrators.

Now, one might ask, “what IS an Engineering Survival Kit?” See below for the complete kit description:

 The Complete Engineering Science Kit

• 1 granola bar (Do engineers have time for breakfast? Not always. But hopefully this will give you enough energy to get through that 9 AM class.)
• 1 package Fruit Snacks (A healthy dose of Vitamin C will help you stay healthy throughout the cold winter weeks.)
• 1 package instant Top Ramen (Working so hard on that thermo pset that you forgot to eat dinner? Hopefully this will come in handy.)
• 1 pad lined paper (Problem set scratch paper. To-do lists. Ideas for future inventions. Or you may want to make mini yellow paper airplanes. Go ahead; it’s yours to use.)
• 1 Sharpie marker (a.k.a. multi-purpose permanent marking tool. Use only for good, not evil.)
• 4 AAA batteries (Because your TI-89 is probably low on power right at this very moment.)
• 1 can Red Bull (Batteries for you. Trust us. You’ll need it.)

Also, each concentrator received a personalized, laser-cut acrylic placard with their name and graduating year engraved on the surface — our way of saying welcome to SEAS.

Again, congratulations to all the new ES concentrators, and welcome to Harvard Engineering!

-HCES Execs

Egg Drop Contest / Pumpkin Drop

and the Harvard College Engineering Society

Sponsored by the Society of Physics Students

Friday, 10/28 @ 4:30 PM
in front of Jefferson Hall
(Refreshments served in Jefferson 251)

SPS and HCES invite you to come witness a smashing spectacle of epic proportions. Watch or participate in an egg drop contest* (prizes will be awarded!), followed by an experiment to determine whether gravity still works… by hurling deep-frozen pumpkins from a four-story building.

And stick around for the refreshments (including pumpkin pie)!

Get ready for the annual pre-Halloween pumpkin-smashing ritual hosted by the SPS and HCES!

The Details:

• What: Egg drop competition + pumpkin smashing + HCES/SPS social event
• When: Friday afternoon, 10/28
• Where: Jefferson (or somewhere thereabouts)
• Food?: refreshments provided by SPS

Normally, the event consists of hurling pumpkins of different temperatures (warm, cold, really cold, frozen solid) from the fourth floor of Jefferson, enjoying the smashing spectacle below as the pumpkins meet their untimely end, then enjoying some tasty refreshments (including, of course, pumpkin pie).

This year, we thought it would be fun to stoke the fires of the engineering-physics rivalry by incorporating an egg drop competition at the beginning of the event: hurl an egg (+ protection) from the fourth floor, so that the egg survives and lands as close to a target as possible. The plan is to get several teams from both departments to participate; laser-machined trophies will be given to top point winners (we’ve outlined a rough grading rubric) and the most creative design. And, of course, whichever club (HCES or SPS) has the best overall performance gets bragging rights.

Be on the lookout for more information to come!

Thank you to everyone for coming out to the study break. See some snapshots of the evening below:

]]> http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hces/?feed=rss2&p=368 0 http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hces/?p=340 http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hces/?p=340#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:15:01 +0000 admin http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hces/?p=340 Check out the Elections 2011 tab to see who is running to be the next board of the Harvard College Engineering Society.  Elections are Tuesday, Mar 22nd 8pm in the Kates Room of Quincy House.  All members are invited to attend and cast your vote!