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 [email protected] 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
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