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The Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) operates as an "engineering teaching hospital", that has at its core a set of professional engineering staff and faculty, with graduate students as "residents" and undergraduates as "interns". This methodology combines sets of professional and student level skills to support multiple research opportunities and higher education in the area of spacecraft engineering. The Center allows larger and more diverse research projects through use of the broad range of research interests of Astronautics and ISI experts, as well as joint and shared laboratories and physical spaces between the main campus and Marina del Rey locations.