Jessica Taylor

On the second floor of the Florida Tech Olin Life Sciences Building, tucked away in what looks like an old refrigerator, is the beginning of the next great human journey into the unknown. To look at it, the research seems pretty simple. There’s a chamber – that looks like a refrigerator – fitted with some special lighting and filled with…

Working in the field takes on a whole new meaning with a few Florida Tech psychology students. Through Dr. Sandra Wise’s “Eye of a Horse” program at Forever Florida in St. Cloud, doctoral students have the opportunity to work with a variety of individuals, from humans to horses. This experiential therapy approach to psychology not only gets these students outside,…

Daniel Batcheldor, Head of Physics and Space Sciences at Florida Tech, has a test imaging device successfully installed on the International Space Station as of April 28, 2017. The device, on the international space station, will collect data for the next six months. Data collected will determine the potential of future missions with NASA and possible installation on telescopes collecting images…

This student design ocean engineering project is all about underwater surveillance disguised as trash. “The plan is to dump it so it looks like litter,” said Clayton Esposito, software engineering major. “So if someone comes across it, they just leave it alone.” However, this is more than just a truck tire. It’s a two-year project designed to monitor harbors and…

CROM may look and sound like Iron Man’s distant cousin, but it’s actually a Florida Tech student design project designed to give astronauts the ability to use their muscles and avoid muscle atrophy without shaking up the ISS. “The exercise equipment they use has to be heavily dampened, because it will actually shake the space station,” said Benjamin Cooley, mechanical engineering…

In a far corner of Florida Tech’s Olin Engineering building, is a small lab filled with the future of robotics. Master’s and doctoral students share the space as they work on projects like model solar systems that update the position of planets in real time, autonomous vehicles and six-axis robotic arms designed to 3D print a myriad of shapes. Typical…

You can take the girl out of the Space Coast, but you can’t take the Space Coast out of the girl. When Florida Tech astrophysics alumna Laura Forczyk moved to Georgia in 2016, she wasn’t quite sure what her future would really hold. Her previous employer closed its doors at Kennedy Space Center, and she was in the third trimester…

Florida Tech’s Formula Racing SAE Team is not only a student design project, but also a club that continues every year. This gives undergrads who work on the project a unique opportunity to learn from this year’s seniors who will then pass the torch on to the juniors. Unlike other student design projects, the Formula Team involves all majors and all levels…

It’s not every day that a team of college seniors gets to present an idea to NASA and Buzz Aldrin. “The first day after we presented to Buzz Aldrin, we were freaking out,” mechanical engineering senior Muhammad Shah said. “We started from nothing and we narrowed it down. Today, we have a really cool system.” That really cool system is a…

The NASA JPL 3-D Printing team hit a few roadblocks early on with their senior design project, but through some innovative thinking, they came up with a different idea that may work even better. Three teams set out to develop a 3-D printer that could use Martian regolith soil to build blocks. However, due to time constraints and money, they…