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ESMD Space Grant Faculty ReportThe strength of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate ESMD Faculty Project lies in its ability to meet National Aeronautics Space Administration NASA's Strategic Educational Outcome 1 by developing a sustainable and long-term integration of student involvement at academic institutions with all NASA Centers. This outcome is achieved by a three-fold approach: 1) by collecting Senior Design projects pertaining to Constellation work performed at each of the ten NASA Centers, 2) by engaging students at Minority Serving Institutions in the art of systems engineering and systems design of technologies required for space exploration, and 3) by identifying potential internships at each Center relative to exploration that provide students who are supported by their institutional Space Grant to engage in on-going mission-level and explorative systems designs. The objectives of the ESMD Faculty Project are to: 1. Aid the Centers (both Education Offices and associated technical organizations) in providing relevant opportunities for the ESMD Space Grant Program to support student and faculty in Senior Design projects 2. Enable better matches between the ESMD work required and what the Space Grant Consortia can do to effectively contribute to NASA programs 3. Provide the Space Grant Consortia an opportunity to strengthen relations with the NASA Centers 4. Develop better collective understanding of the U.S. Space Exploration Policy by the Center, Space Grant, faculty, Education Office, and students 5. Enable Space Grant institution faculty to better prepare their students to meet current and future NASA needs 6. Enable the Center Education Offices to strengthen their ties to their technical organizations and Space Grant Consortia 7. Aid KSC in gaining a greater and more detailed understanding of each of the Center activities Senior Design projects are intended to stimulate undergraduate students on current NASA activities related to lunar, Mars, and other planetary missions and to bring out innovative and novel ideas that can be used to complement those currently under development at respective NASA Centers. Additionally, such academic involvement would better the prospects for graduating seniors to pursue graduate studies and to seek careers in the space industry with a strong sense for systems engineering and understanding of design concepts. Internships, on the other hand, are intended to provide hands-on experience to students by engaging them in diverse state-of-the-art technology development, prototype bread-boarding, computer modeling and simulations, hardware and software testing, and other activities that provide students a strong perspective of NASA's vision and mission in enhancing the knowledge of Earth and space planetary sciences. Ten faculty members, each from a Space Grant Consortium-affiliated university, worked at ten NASA Centers for five weeks between June 2 and July 3, 2008. The project objectives listed above were achieved. In addition to collecting data on Senior Design ideas and identifying possible internships that would benefit NASA/ESMD, the faculty fellows promoted and collected data when required for other ESMD-funded programs and helped the Center's Education Office, as,needed. 4
Document ID
20130010057
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Other
Authors
Guo, Jiang
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Whitmore, Stephen
(NASA Dryden Flight Research Center Edwards, CA, United States)
Radcliff, Roger
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Misra, Prabhakar
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Prasad, Nadipuram
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Conrad, James
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Lackey, Ellen
(NASA Kennedy Space Center Cocoa Beach, FL, United States)
Selby, Gregory
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Wersinger, Jean-Marie
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Lambright, Jonathan
(NASA Stennis Space Center Stennis Space Center, MS, United States)
Date Acquired
August 27, 2013
Publication Date
August 14, 2008
Subject Category
Social And Information Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
KSC-2008-172
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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