CanSat Pico-satellite Building Workshop as an Effective Tool for STEAM Education, A Case Study

Abstract

in Paraguay, where he got his BS in Electromechanical Engineering. After graduation, he spent some time in academia working as faculty. During this tenure he taught courses on heat transfer, fluid mechanics and physics. In 2004 Dr. Kurita was granted the Fulbright scholarship to attend a graduate program on Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He has finished his MS and then continued with a doctorate program. His doctorate research was funded by NASA and the NSF. Dr. Kurita's contribution to his field was well published in several papers from high impact journals. From 2011 Dr. Kurita worked as a development engineer II, in the competitive automotive industry, Filtran LLC, located in Des Plaines Illinois. His experience as an experimental researcher helped Filtran to develop special testing techniques never implemented before on filtration systems. In addition, Dr. Kurita worked in the CAE group, contributing to develop simulation techniques to help develop state of the art filtration systems. From 2016 Dr. Kurita is back to his alma mater as an assistant professor in Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. Later the same year, he is appointed to lead the research department of the School of Engineering. From 2017 he is appointed to be the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. He is currently working as the director of the Planning Directorate of the Paraguayan Space Agency. For his contributions to the Paraguayan society in the field of science and engineering, he was acknowledged as the "Exceptional Protagonist of 2017" by the Ultimahora news, a major newspaper in Paraguay. Another distinction, the "Outstanding Citizen Award," was granted by the city council of the city of Asuncion in 2017.

Workshop evaluating the systems integration of a CubeSat as an effective tool for STEAM education, a case study of work in progress.

“…Previous research was carried out in Paraguay, such as a CanSat project (Kurita et al, 2020), where high school instructors were involved in the challenge of building a "very small and simple satellite" (a picosatellite). This satellite contained characteristics similar to those of larger satellites.…”