New Brunswick Community College (NBCC)

Chris Toews, NBCC (left), Alex DiTommaso, UNB (centre), and Sarah Siddiqua, UNB (right), attended the Canadian CubeSat Development workshop at the Canadian Space Agency Headquarters, May 2019. Image credit: Yocoyani Badillo-Amberg

Reaching for the stars is a real possibility in New Brunswick Community College's Electronics Engineering Technology program. Students in this program have opportunities to work on applied research with CubeSat NB, a first-of-its-kind partnership among NBCC, the Université de Moncton and the University of New Brunswick.

CubeSat NB provides learners an opportunity to participate in the design, building and testing of New Brunswick’s first cube satellite, named VIOLET after our provincial flower. So far, with the guidance of faculty members Saadmaan Rahman and Réjean Barriault, NBCC students have used their senior technical projects to develop a UHF helical antenna for the CubeSat NB ground station, a software-defined radio also for the ground station and a second revision of one of VIOLET’s printed circuit boards.

Université de Moncton

The Université de Moncton has complementary information; some information will be in French and some will be in English; there might be some duplication of information between their web sites and the UNB web sites.