Case Study: Texas A&M University achieves ISS-bound student experiment launches with Zoom Video Communications

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Dr. Joseph Morgan’s Mobile Integrated Solutions Lab at Texas A&M mentors middle- and high-school students on hardware and software experiments destined for NASA/CASIS and the International Space Station. Because teams were geographically dispersed (including Denver-area groups and international partners) and the work required clear, close-up views of circuit boards and live demonstrations, audio calls and email alone made collaboration slow and error-prone.

The lab adopted Zoom’s high-quality video and screen/camera sharing to conduct remote mentoring, review designs, and demonstrate hardware in real time. As a result, mentors and students developed several integrated boards and experiments—two of which are now operational aboard the ISS—private firms purchase the boards for ISS research, and international collaborations (for example with the Technical University of Munich) have been executed successfully.

Texas A&M University

Joseph Morgan

Professor in the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology Program