A Summer at NASA Goddard & elsewhere

Mini sabbaticals can invigorate your career, help students and colleagues,

and yield unexpected benefits.

• Last summer I found myself at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center outside of Washington, DC doing research on carbon nanotubes for magnetometers with a Dr. Stephanie Getty and two BYU students. I will talk about our experiences: how it was that we came to be there, what we did, our results and long-term consequences. I will also address the summer opportunities for students and faculty at national labs and defense laboratories. I will talk about unexpected results, what we wished we had known before we went and we can do at BYU to support one another in such activities.

outline

• Opportunities

• ESMD faculty-Studetn Teams– History of our involvemetn.– logistics

• Lab

Faculty

• http://www.asee.org/fellowships/index.cfm

Student

• NSF http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&from=fund

• DOE labs: http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/scied/erulf/choose.html

• NIST: http://www.surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm

• NASA

NIST: http://www.surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm

• Jacque Jackson 2006

NASA has various

• Space Grant consortia– Rocky Mountain http://spacegrant.usu.edu/

• Goddard http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/

• Academy http://academy.nasa.gov/

NASA Academy http://academy.nasa.gov/ :

• Cody Short2006

Hi,We are pleased to offer you and a student of your choice an

ESMD student- faculty fellowship for the summer of 2006. You would be doing research at Goddard Space Flight Center with Stephanie Getty whose EMail address is Stephanie.A.Getty@nasa.gov and telephone number is 301 286-9760.

The benefits of the Fellowship are:• -A stipend of $1400/week for 10 weeks for you• -A relocation payment of $1500 for you• -Travel to and from Goddard BEFORE the start of the

program to discuss• the summer research with your NASA colleagues.• -Travel to an from Goddard during the summer ($0.40/per

mile mileage).

We strongly recommend bringing your car.

The student will receive• -A stipend of $4000.00• -Housing at the University of Maryland• -Three dinners per week• -Daily transport to and from Goddard

(about 2 miles away)• The most important benefit, of course, will

be the opportunities for mutual enrichment between Goddard engineers and your university. We hope to be able to sponsor an early fall trip by your Goddard colleague to your university.

• The program period should extend over ten weeks (more or less continuous) during the summer. If you take a week to go to a conference, then you should anticipate extending your stay at GSFC for another week. Student housing can only be offered between May 30 and August 13. We would work with you to make arrangements outside that period, but cannot provide extra funding.

• You and your student MUST be either US Citizens or holders of immigrant (green card) status. We would be interested in discussing the possibility of your bringing more students during the summer, either for the complete period or some portion thereof.

• Please let me know by return Email whether you intend to accept this offer.

• I remain,

• Very truly yours,

• Richard P. Fahey

Andrew Ning

• Graduate Aug 2006• Now at Stanford • Looking for summer

work• Tried NASA • One required faculty-

student teams• He called me in late

Jan.

Name First College Student Colleague Co Research

             

Abrahntes Miguel Hope College Luke WentCynthia

Cheung 695

Tetrahedral Walking Robot

      Aaron Silver      

Allred David BYUJohnathon

GoodsellStephanie

Getty 541

Carbon Nanotube magnetometer

      Jon Brame      

Barton OscarUS Naval

AcademyJoseph Navarre

(1/3) John Vranish 500

Analysis of Gear-     Miguel Recalde

(1/3)    

     Brandon Bonton

(1/3)       bearing Epicyclic

     Zerbin Singleton

(1/3)     Gear Trains 

Brown James Catholic Univ. Kevin Milsted Jeffrey Didion 545

Micro-scale Thermal Control

Hollerman William

Louisiana/Lafayette Robert Moore

Gunther Kletetschka 691

Gas Gun for Lunar Exploration

      Noah Bergeron  (1/2)    

      Charles Malespin(1/2)     

Lookadoo James Pittsburg

StateDonavan

Wheeler Dave Israel 567

advanced technical communications

     Cassandra

Stuckey      

Olivier Phillip Mercer, GA Bryan Solomon Cynthia Cheung 695 Tetrahedral Robot

      Lauren Jarrelle      

Ramirez-Angulo Jaime

New Mexico State

Paul Mark Vizcaino Mike Johnson 560

Reconfigurable Integrated Circuits

• Feb• March

– Scott Sommerfeldt – Your are one of 12 for 8 slots

• April – Who will go– How does it work out

• May – Johnathan Goodsell, Jon Brame and Me

logistics

• 1. I had a meeting in DC

• 2. We arrange for program to start right away

• 3. we arrange who comes when

• 4. stay? Dynamic

• 5. Eat?

• 6. Car?

Goddard

home page http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Space_Flight_Center

Map http://klabs.org/richcontent/MAPLDCon98/NASAGSFCAreaMap.htm

The lab

Results

• Papers

• Presentations

You might not have guessed results

• I saw some very important people in the east. Relatives and friends

• I went to a conference for $200 which otherwise would have cost $1200+

Some observations

• Bring your own computer.

• Have accounts at gmail

What didn’t happen

• I never met some of the people at Goddard I meant to meet

• I didn’t tour some of the places at goddard I meant to see

• I only once wnet down to tha Mall

• I never went to see the NSF, DOE project monitors.

Discussion