Dr. Richard Woodcock Rocket Project Student Laboratory Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
San Diego State University Rocket Project celebrates ribbon cutting ceremony for the Dr. Richard Woodcock Rocket Project Student Laboratory on October 28th. This recognition is in appreciation of Dr. Woodcock's more than $1 million in support of several College of Engineering efforts. Dr. Richard W. Woodcock is considered the world's foremost educational test developer and is one of the most prolific and influential figures in the field of applied psychological assessment. He became involved with Rocket Project in 2017. Dr. Woodcock's love of adventure and space travel attracted him to Rocket Project. His first gift to Rocket Project was in 2017 for $50,000. Rocket Project had the goal to set the world record for altitude with a student designed and built liquid fueled rocket. Knowing that goal, Dr. Woodcock kept giving cash gifts that in four short years totaled $1 million. In addition to his financial giving, Dr. Woodcock is a frequent visitor to the Rocket Project lab on campus and to the rocket launch site in the Mojave Desert. With Dr. Woodcock's support, the students set the world record in February 2020 with "Lady Elizabeth”, the student-designed-built rocket named after Dr. Woodcock's late wife, Elizabeth Jackson. "In the Rocket project laboratory we are not only building up reckets, but we also build up future engineers!", quoted by rocket project faculty advisor Prof. Ahmad Bani Younes.
