Transcript UFRO ONLINE - National Space Grant Foundation

SE Regional Space Grant Meeting
Lexington
Nov. 11, 2006
FLORIDA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS
Florida Space Grant Consortium
FUNSAT
Student Satellite Design Competition
FLORIDA UNIVERSITIES SATELLITE
Design Experience of a Satellite In an
Academic Environment
• Interdisciplinary System Experience
– Integrate individual expertise
• Engineering & Science
– Systems Engineering & Team effort
– Hands-on project
• Career & Advanced Study in
aerospace field
• Development of a New Technology
FUNSAT
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Standard Specification & Interface
– 1 Kg
– 10 x 10 x 10 cm Cube
– I/F with Launch Vehicle
Many on-going programs
– Cal Poly / Stanford Univ.  Int’l
Tech. Society & Regular Meeting
Tech Support: Design DB
FUNSAT
• Senior Design Class
– Hands-on project Required
– Space system experience
– Interdisciplinary project - ABET
• Current Approach
– 1st Semester: Conceptual Design
– 2nd Semester: Detailed Design & an Engineering
Model
– Winner: Fight Model within a year
•  Master Thesis
• Future: one year turnaround
Our K-20 Challenge
• Funding: NASA HQ’s Workforce Training
Program
• 1st Competition: 2004 - 2005
• 7 NOIs  3 schools, actual participation
• Two Workshops at KSC
• ERAU: Winner
• 2nd Competition: 2005 - 2006
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4 schools: ERAU, FIT, UCF, and UF
The Detailed Design due May 1st, 2006
Workshop at FSA: May 15, 2006
ERAU: Winner
• 3rd Competition: 2006 – 2007 (UF,UCF,FIT)
RESULTS
• ERAU
– Complete FM and ready to launch
• UF
– AIAA Small Satellite Student Paper
Competition  4th Place ($3,000)
– Boost students’ interest in space
engineering  Class & Satellite Team
– Development of a de-orbiting technology
• UCF
– Interdisciplinary Sr. Design Class: EE, CE,
ME, and AE
– Air Force Nano-satellite program
Tech CD
Tech CD
Competition
Information
FUNSAT
Specifications
Mission
Examples
FUNSAT
Rules
CubeSat
Examples
Supplementary
Database
CONTACTS
• Dr. Chan Ham
• Email: [email protected]
• Tel # 407-882-3575
FLORIDA SPACE ACADEMY
• Design, build & launch meteorological
balloon
• Launch high-powered rockets with
payloads
• Design, build and display an autonomous
Robot
• Redesign RC aircraft with inherent flight
flaws
• Site visits – NASA Space Physics, Boeing
LC 37, SSPF
• Panel Discussion on ‘working at KSC’
opportunities
Space Academy -Hands-On!
Contractors
Contractors participating in the program
included
• Boeing Corporation
• Lockheed Martin
• United Space Alliance
• SAIC Safety Office
• Space Gateway Services
• Brevard Tomorrow
Panel
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Harold Donald, SAIC
Les Leckron, USA
Kathy McLemore, Boeing
Jim Pratten, SGS,
Geo Ropert, Brevard Tomorrow
Eduardo Lopez Del Castillo, NASA
KSC
Florida Space Academy
Contact info:
Tony Gannon
Space Florida
Mail Stop: SPFL
Building M6-306, Room 9030
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
[email protected]
www.spaceflorida.gov
321.730.5301 x 230
Educators Resource Center
• At the Educator Resource Center (ERC), educators
can access a wide variety of NASA resources to
develop their own educational programs. The facilities
and staff at the
• center will assist teachers in gathering ideas, doing
• research, and duplicating selections from an
outstanding
• collection of audiovisual and printed materials.
• Technological Services
• Teacher Workshops
• Resources (Videos, Slides, Lesson Plans, etc)
Exploration Station
• Adventures in Learning: Science, Technology, and
MATH through SEEING, TOUCHING and DOING
• Students participate in a variety of hands-on activities
utilizing aerospace hardware that compliments the
teaching of rocketry, spaceflight and exploration.
• FREE
CONTACT
• Ms. Sreela Mallick
• Email: [email protected]
• Tel # 321-452-4301 Ext 3
Florida High School/High Tech
• Florida High School/High Tech (HS/HT) is designed to
provide high school students with all types of
disabilities the opportunity to explore jobs or
postsecondary education leading to technologyrelated careers.
• HS/HT links youth to a broad range of academic,
career development and experiential resources and
experiences that will enable them to meet the
demands of the 21st century workforce.
• HS/HT is an initiative of the US Department of Labor
Office of Disability Employment Policy. In Florida, it is a
program of The Able Trust, also known as the Florida
Governor's Alliance for the Employment of Citizens
with Disabilities.
FL HIGH SCHOOL/HIGH TECH
There are currently
29 High
School/High
Tech (HS/HT)
project sites
located across
Florida
FL HIGH SCHOOL/HIGH TECH
• 2005 Florida Statistics:
• Nearly 90 percent of HS/HT graduates have enrolled in
postsecondary education or training
• 86 Florida high schools participated in HS/HT
• Out of 118 HS/HT graduates:
– 40 percent chose to attend community college
– 31 percent chose employment
– 10 percent chose to attend a four year
college/university
– 8 percent were undecided at the time of the survey
– 6 percent chose to attend a technical school
– 4 percent chose other options
– 1 percent enlisted in the military
CONTACT
• Ms. Sreela Mallick
• Email: [email protected]
• Tel # 321-452-4301 Ext 3