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SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FLIGHT TEAM COMPOSITION
Flight teams will consist of 5-6 individuals from their university:
- 1 Undergraduate Senior
- 1 Faculty Member
- 3 Other Undergraduates (any undergraduate level)
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Students must be enrolled full-time as undergraduate students in the semester in which teams apply to this program. All team members (students and faculty) - MUST be U.S. Citizens and 18 years-of-age PRIOR to arrival in Houston.
In addition, teams may include the following OPTIONAL members:
- one full-time undergraduate alternate flight-crew member
- a ground-based crew of no more than 2 members. More than 2 members must be approved by the program coordinator after selection.
- Once your team is selected, you may invite one professional journalist as a team member. If interested, contact Jenna Maddix, Public Affairs Officer at Johnson Space Center, at (281) 244-0185 or jenna.c.maddix@nasa.gov for more details. DO NOT contact a journalist until you have spoken to Jenna Maddix, as journalists must by approved before being named to your team.
Flight crew must pass a modified FAA - Air Force Class III Flight Physical. This includes being within a specific weight guideline (see "Medical Examination Packet" - Height and Weight Table/Page 4). A medically disqualified flight-crew member may still serve as a ground crew member.
STUDENT TEAM APPLICATION WILL INCLUDE:
- Cover Sheet
- Team Composition (see above) - what are the qualifications of the members of the flight teams (mini-resume). Include research experience, focused academic disciplines, majors, etc. We strongly encourage the team to be made up of individuals with varying technical majors (ie. electrical, mechanical, aerospace engineers, etc.). Think - systems engineering.
- Essay on Systems Engineering (3-4 pages) - what is your understanding of SE and how it would apply in the technical workplace (like NASA). Give examples.
- Funding Sources (1-2 pages) - how do you plan on covering program related costs? Students will need cover travel, hotel, food, etc., and some experiment build-up costs.
- Outreach (2-3 pages) - how will you share what they learn in this experience with your local communities, university, grade schools, etc.
- Application will also ask the following information:
a. Videoconferencing - do you have access to videoconferencing equipment (necessary for participating in this program)? If so, provide contact information for using this equipment?
b. Have University/Faculty members participated in the Reduced Gravity program in the past?
c. List top 5 Systems Engineering experiments (see available projects) that you would like to be associated with in preference order. Note: we may assign you to a project that was not listed if we feel your team would be a good fit.
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Selection Process: Teams will be ranked based on tn their communicated understanding of system engineering in the technical workforce and their team makeup as it matches to identified NASA projects.
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Usual academic standards regarding original work apply to all materials submitted for review to this competitive program. In all cases, proper credit should be given for referenced work and, where applicable, copies of permissions granted for use of copyrighted or patented materials included. Any evidence of copying/plagiarism in teams' proposals will result in disqualification. To be safe, please do not copy any textual part of a previous proposal, even if your proposal was not selected last year and your ideas are basically the same, find a new way to say it.
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