Welcome to CPInterSEP.org!
CPInterSEP, which stands for Cal Poly Interdisciplinary Satellite Engineering Project, is an organization that will facilitate the largest, multi-disciplinary, student-run project by any university in this nation, and possibly the world.
Our objective: to design, manufacture, assemble, and integrate flight-ready spacecraft through a collaborative effort, not only between the Colleges of Engineering, Business, and Science and Mathematics at Cal Poly, but also with other reputable universities, research organizations, and industry contacts.
Students will have the opportunity to work with every aspect of satellite development, as well as the business perspectives of running such an organization:
The main advisor of CPInterSEP is Professor David Esposto, a retired Boeing Structural Engineer and Program Manager. Through Boeing’s donations to Professor Esposto is any of this possible: enough flight hardware and tooling to reconstruct two Boeing 376 Satellite Buses, in addition to two fully populated solar panels that are capable of producing 16 kw of power. He is working closely with his two students, Sean Stavropoulos and Joun Kim, in order to establish CPInterSEP, as well as a Board of Directors consisting of faculty, industry contacts, and students.
Our objective: to design, manufacture, assemble, and integrate flight-ready spacecraft through a collaborative effort, not only between the Colleges of Engineering, Business, and Science and Mathematics at Cal Poly, but also with other reputable universities, research organizations, and industry contacts.
Students will have the opportunity to work with every aspect of satellite development, as well as the business perspectives of running such an organization:
- Systems Engineers will work to derive mission requirements, design a system architecture, and flow down requirements to the different subsystems of the satellite, respective to the payload that will need to be accommodated.
- Structural Engineers will need to discover the load paths and survivability requirements of launch, performing a full structural analysis utilizing Finite Element Analysis software to validate their calculations.
- Computer Science majors will contribute their programming knowledge, creating their own algorithms for each respective payload, and collaborate with Electrical Engineers to develop, integrate, and test fully functional space-qualified computers and electronic interfaces.
- Control theory, power systems, material selection, and propulsion systems will also need to be accommodated for.
The main advisor of CPInterSEP is Professor David Esposto, a retired Boeing Structural Engineer and Program Manager. Through Boeing’s donations to Professor Esposto is any of this possible: enough flight hardware and tooling to reconstruct two Boeing 376 Satellite Buses, in addition to two fully populated solar panels that are capable of producing 16 kw of power. He is working closely with his two students, Sean Stavropoulos and Joun Kim, in order to establish CPInterSEP, as well as a Board of Directors consisting of faculty, industry contacts, and students.