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Manuel J. Lujan Jr.
SPACE TELE-ENGINEERING PROGRAM |
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Introduction |
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The Space Tele-Engineering Program was established by New Mexico
State University (NMSU) to develop a nationally-recognized Center
of Excellence in the area of telemetering systems for: |
 Development
of students,
Academic
programs, and
Research
programs |
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Overview |
The Manuel J. Lujan, Jr. Space Tele-Engineering Program at NMSU
coordinates the programmatic aspects of the Center. The program
offices are located within the Klipsch School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering in Thomas & Brown Hall at NMSU in Las
Cruces. The Program can be visited electronically at
http://telemetry.nmsu.edu/ |
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The program is a synthesis of input gathered from many sources
including industry, academe, and government agencies. The program
was developed to meet the needs of these organizations. |
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NMSU was selected to be the Telemetering Center of Excellence
in the United States by the International Foundation for Telemetering
(IFT), a non-profit corporation established to simulate technical
growth in telemetering and its allied arts and sciences. The
IFT and state of New Mexico have provided the Frank Carden Telemetering
and Telecommunications Chair at NMSU. |
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Academic Program |
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The NMSU telemetering, telecommunications and signal processing
academic program was developed in coordination with industry
to meet industry needs. The academic program is designed to provide
qualified undergraduate and graduate engineers for the field. |
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Background |
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The first telemetry graduate course was offered in the fall of
1987. NMSU's telemetering, telecommunications, and signal processing
program currently offers: |
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Undergraduate
design courses |
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Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialty
in telemetering, communications systems, etc. |
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Doctor of Philosophy Degree with specialities in modulation,
coding, synchronization, equalization, etc. |
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Short
Courses in telemetry systems, radio propagation, and optical
communications |
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weekly Seminar Series to discuss current research and applications
topics. |
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Endowed Chair
The Frank Carden Chair in Telemetering and Telecommunications,
occupied by Dr. Stephen Horan, was funded by the International
Telemetering Foundation, industry, and the state of New Mexico. |
Off-campus
NMSU is a member of the National Technological University
courseware and supplies courseware in the areas of satellite
communications and telemetering systems. |
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Research Program |
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Background |
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Research serves as a cornerstone of the Space Tele-Engineering
Program with the overall research laboratory being the Center
for Space Telemetering and Telecommunications Systems within
the NMSU Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The research program:
Is directed towards the study of advanced communications systems
employing advanced modulation, coding, and equalization techniques;
data transport, telemetry systems, processing technology, and
Has received extensive research grant support from the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense,
Sandia National Laboratories, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
the National Science Foundation, and private industry |
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Current research projects include: |
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Analyzing and simulating high-order modulation techniques for
use in satellite communications systems, including effects of
amplifiers and filters
Developing a flight radio system for a cluster of
nanosatellites
Analyzing and simulating bandwidth-efficient coding techniques
for telemetry channels
Developing hardware to simulate the effects of satellite channel
performance on networking protocols when applied to satellite
communications
Developing hardware and software to use real-time digital signal
processing techniques to recover carriers without knowing the
initial Doppler shift
Developing compression techniques for representing map data
Developing signal processing techniques for speech separation |
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Last updated on:03/15/2006 |
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Capabilities |
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Presented below is a listing of capabilities for the Center for
Space Telemetering and Telecommunications Systems by topic area. |
Software
Development |
Hardware
Support |
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In the area of software development, the Center has been involved
in the following activities:
Developed a space channel simulator using LabVIEW to model delay
and error characteristics for protocol testing.
Design of adaptive equalizers, sub-band coders, and spread spectrum
systems using FPGA technology
Development of satellite-to-satellite orbital interactions using
Satellite Tool Kit and high-level-language models
Developed simulation models for a variety of communications systems
using MATLAB software. |
The Center has obtained experience in the area of hardware
installation and support by conducting the following activities:
Testing of flight radio components to pass NASA shuttle safety
requirements
Developing the communications system for a constellation of nanosatellites
Maintained a Ka-Band radio propagation measurement station in
continuous operation for over five years
Development of PC-104 based FPGA support board |
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The Manuel J. Lujan,
Jr. Space Tele-Engineering Program at NMSU coordinates the programmatic aspects
of the Center. The program offices are located within the Klipsch
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Goddard Hall
Annex at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM.The Program
can be visited electronically at http://telemetry.nmsu.edu/. |
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The program is a synthesis of input gathered from
many sources including industry, academic, and government agencies.
The program was developed to meet the needs of these organizations. |
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New Mexico State University was selected to be the
Telemetering Center of Excellence in the United States by the
International Foundation for Telemetering (IFT), a non-profit corporation established
to simulate technical growth in telemetering and its allied arts
and sciences. |
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The IFT and State of New Mexico have provided
a Telemetering and Telecommunications Chair for NMSU. |
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