Familiarizes students with factors affecting living organisms in the reduced-gravity environment of space flight. The topics covered will introduce students to current goals and challenges associated with the human exploration and development of space, as well as provide unique engineering insight into the physiological requirements governing the design of life support systems for space habitats. Emphasis is placed on journal article and grant proposal writing and the peer-review process. Refer to the class web site www.colorado.edu/ASEN/asen5016 for more information.

Course will provide engineers with knowledge pertaining to human space flight and offer insight into gravity-dependent experimental design criteria in the context of conducting biological and physical research in space.

Understand life support requirements based on human physiological needs. Knowledgeable of physiological changes that occur to people in space Aware of biomedical countermeasures needed to maintain crew health Discuss gravity-dependent physical mechanisms at the cellular level

Graduate standing in engineering/physical sciences.

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