Posted on Sep 17, 2004

Amy C. Hsiao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, was awarded
a NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship and spent the summer at NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. She worked on the magnetically-actuated microshutters to be
used on the James Webb Space Telescope, to be launched in 2011 as the successor
to the Hubble Space Telescope.