Oklahoma State University student interns with NASA

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

(November 10, 2009  Stillwater, OK) -- An Oklahoma State University junior from Tulsa, Nicole Weidman, is spending this fall as an intern at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., with the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program.

Weidman, who is in the NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program, works with a NASA mentor in the Mission Planning Lab on a Satellite Tool Kit, a powerful computer program that helps to plan out sounding rocket missions. 

NASA USRP has placed 18 aerospace and aeronautical undergraduate engineering majors during the current Fall 2009 internship session on-site at NASA Centers across the U.S.

“The work that I do here is very valuable to the facility and it is great to know what I am doing is of worth,” said Weidman. “I feel like I have learned so much and I have only been here three weeks. It is a great program and I am honored to be a part of it. Flight interests me, and when you are interested in something, studying does not feel like something you have to do, but rather something you want to do.”  

Weidman is the daughter of John and Marcia Weidman of Tulsa, and is a 2007 graduate of Tulsa Memorial High School. She expects to receive a double major in aerospace and mechanical engineering in May 2011 from OSU.

“We are very pleased that Nicole has had the opportunity to get this professional growth experience in a cutting-edge aerospace facility as an undergraduate student,” said Dr. Ron Delahoussaye, undergraduate director of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.