{"id":964,"date":"2008-03-27T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2008-03-27T00:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T05:05:18","slug":"more-news-from-the-queens-space-engineering-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"More news from the Queen’s Space Engineering Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Boulanger, President of the Queen’s Space Engineering Team<\/a>, has graciously consented to answer some questions I emailed him:<\/p>\n

[Space Elevator Blog – SEB] – What got you and your team interested in the idea of a Space Elevator and the competition itself?
\n[Jonathan Boulanger – JB] – I first became interested in the idea of a Space Elevator through a project in my second year applied physics class. \u00a0I personally took a unique interest as carbon nanotubes fascinated me (and they still do). Just over a year ago I stumbled upon the Elevator2010 website. \u00a0After telling a few people about the competition support for creating a team was huge and before you knew it, here we are. Moral of the story, cutting edge ideas sell.<\/p>\n

[SEB] – Is your team comprised of all University students or do you plan on partnering with anyone outside of the University (outside of TRUMPF)?
\n[JB] – The Queen’s Space Engineering Team (QSET) is primarily composed of university students; however, we are no stranger to outside consultation. \u00a0Several Queen\u2019s Alumni have contributed time, experience, and funding to our project. Presently, QSET has begun a partnership with TRUMPF. Our partnership with TRUMPF will go a long way towards bridging the gap between our relatively new team and more founded teams, such as USST or LaserMotive. \u00a0We hope to give everyone a run for their (or rather, NASA\u2019s) money.<\/p>\n

[SEB] – How many members – what kind of skill sets do you have on your team?
\n[JB] – QSET consists of almost 25 members. \u00a0These members belong to seven different engineering disciplines, commerce, as well as arts and science programs. \u00a0I\u2019m sure you can imagine the bulk of our members belong in the first group. \u00a0The skill sets that these people bring to the team are quiet diverse. \u00a0We have people specializing in robotics, mechanical design, physics, etc.<\/p>\n

[SEB] – What are your team\u2019s goals for this year?
\n[JB] – Our team\u2019s primary goal for this year is to make a run for top spot and make it an enjoyable and educational experience for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

Thank you Jonathan. \u00a0Also of note is their spiffy new logo – shown at the top of this post.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Boulanger, President of the Queen’s Space Engineering Team, has graciously consented to answer some questions I emailed him: [Space Elevator Blog – SEB] – What got you and your team interested in the idea of a Space Elevator and the competition itself? [Jonathan Boulanger – JB] – I first became interested in the idea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}