JANUARY 2017
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ISSUE 95

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Student engineers at Capitol have seen their satellite project rise to ever-greater heights. First came balloon launches. Then the payload was flown on a sounding rocket as part of NASA's RockSat-X program. Now comes the phase everyone has been waiting for: an orbital mission planned for December. Two student projects, TRAPSat and Project Hermes, will be flown into space. It's a major milestone for Capitol students -- and with several team members only in their sophomore year, the accomplishment is doubly impressive.

Also in this month's Connector: the management and decision sciences PhD program welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Robert Leonard, and Capitol's cybersecurity program chair, Dr. Bill Butler, assesses the Mirai IoT bot attacks, which wrought havoc on the internet last fall.

From all of us at your alma mater, happy 2017. Have a Capitol year!

 HermesCactus-1 Project Anticipates December Launch 

Celebrate the success of student teams at Capitol as they prepare for an orbital mission expected at the end of this year.

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 CircuitDoctoral Program Welcomes Robert Leonard, PhD  

With thirty years of professional experience in addition to his academic credentials, Leonard aims to tap insights from both for the benefit of his students.

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Cybersecurity experts have long known that the IoT presents new and worrisome attack vectors. In recent months, those concerns have materialized in a big way.

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