Students from the Tec’s Cuernavaca campus have won first place in space design competition the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
Mexican students have won the International Space Settlement Design Tournament (ISSDT), a competition for designing space habitats.
Luis Welbanks, a PrepaTec State of Mexico graduate, has received a fellowship from the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.
Students from the Tec’s Cuernavaca Campus have won Overall Winner 2nd place and the STEM Engagement Award at NASA’s 2021 Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
KIA Motors has donated a car to the Tec so that Tec de Monterrey engineers can turn it into a “rover” capable of changing into humanoid form to carry out tasks in space.
Fernando Mier-Hicks, an engineering graduate from the Tec, assisted in testing the Perseverance rover systems for NASA’s MARS 2020 mission.
Carlos Olascoaga is a Mexican engineer who could join an aerospace mission from NASA and the Russian space agency.
Summary: For the third year, Tec students in Cuernavaca have obtained the AIAA Telemetry/Electronics Award in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
Fernando Mier-Hicks, a mechatronics graduate from the Tec de Monterrey School of Engineering and Sciences, is responsible for the simulators that test NASA’s Perseverance rover.