Sustainability in the Worcester Arts Workshop

The Worcester Arts Workshop has served the community since 1974, but like other arts organizations struggles to maintain funding and support. The goal of this project was to assess how to Workshop could improve its social, economic, and environmental sustainability, especially by enhancing revenues and reducing expenditures. We solicited a wide range of stakeholder perspectives, assessed the current use of the building, and conducted an energy audit. We recommend several short term improvements, such as changing light bulbs, insulating lofts, streamlining the website, and increasing marketing and outreach, as well as long term improvements, such as replacing the boiler, increasing class offerings, adding new types of events, extending opening times, and diversifying its audience

Design and Analysis for the Sphinx-NG CubeSat

This project presents the mechanical, orbital, structural design and analysis for a three-unit Cube Satellite (CubeSat) with the SphinX-NG instrument as payload. The goal of the mission is to place the CubeSat on a near-polar, sun synchronous orbit where it will perform X-ray spectroscopy. The design complies with the Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer (P-POD) and mission requirements. The mechanical design is performed using SolidWorks. Orbital decay analysis using the Systems Tool Kit shows that a 600 km altitude provides a compliant lifetime. Random vibration analysis performed with ANSYS under the maximum expected loads shows compliance. COMSOL analysis of the magnetic fields induced by the onboard magnetic torquers indicates the need for shielding of the onboard magnetometer