ADVANCING ROCKETRY: SCHOOL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING WELCOMES STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF STRALSUND, GERMANY FOR A COLLABORATIVE VISIT

NIBONG TEBAL, 27 November 2024 – A group of students and a professor from the University of Stralsund or Hochschule Stralsund (HOST), Germany, visited the School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), in a joint effort to advance rocketry knowledge and techniques.

The visit is being organized and coordinated by the school's student team under its WAU Rocketry Club, which has proudly represented Malaysia in international rocketry competitions in the USA for two consecutive years.

The primary objective of this visit is for the Stralsund Team Germany rocketry team to exchange knowledge and learn the process of manufacturing composite rocket structures from the WAU rocketry team, led by 2nd year aerospace engineering student, Vymarleena Avriel Pathma Raja.

As part of this visit, WAU Rocketry today, is also hosting an astrophysics seminar by Professor Jan Christian Kuhr of HOST entitled "Hitch-hiking Through the Solar System: How Space Travel Exploits the Laws of Mechanics" in Lecture Hall 8.

According to Associate Professor Dr Ahmad Zulfaa Mohamed Kassim, the School of Aerospace's Deputy Dean for Academic, Career & International, the response to the seminar has been overwhelmingly positive, with nearly 350 students expressing interest.

"They are mainly from USM's physics and mathematics schools, along with participants from as far as Kuala Lumpur," Zulfaa said.

“It is also a remarkable achievement that the German team recognized the skills of the USM students in developing a distinctive and innovative composite rocket structure,” he added.

Text: Siti Faizah Abd Halim / Photo: Muhammad Taufik Abdul Rahman