Lewis Educational and Research Collaborative Internship Program (LERCIP)
The Ohio Aerospace Internship Program
NASA Academy
Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) Classroom Project
NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program
NASA Glenn Research Center Faculty Fellowship Program (NGFFP)
NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Faculty Project

Faculty Opportunities

NASA Glenn Research Center Faculty Fellowship Program (NGFFP)

Program Description
Ten-week fellowships for science and engineering faculty at accredited United States universities and colleges are available at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), Cleveland, Ohio, during the summer months.

NASA John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is accepting applications from full-time, qualified Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) faculty in accredited U. S. colleges and universities, for the Summer, 2011 NASA Glenn Faculty Fellowship Program (NGFFP). The ten-week Fellowship starts on Monday, June 6, and ends on Friday, August 12. The opportunity is open to U. S. citizens. However, U. S. permanent resident faculty members who are interested in analytical/fundamental research will be considered. Underrepresented faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) are encouraged to apply.

The Aerospace Research and Fellowship Program is intended to provide university and college faculty with research experience to:

1. Enhance their professional knowledge;
2. Stimulate an exchange of ideas between them and employees of NASA GRC;
3. Enrich and refresh the research and teaching at their institutions through infusion of NASA mission-related research and technology content into classroom teaching; and
4. Contribute to the research, technology and engineering objectives of GRC. Fellows work on projects to complement in-house efforts by their GRC professional colleagues.

Research and technology, and engineering developments encompass relevant specialty areas and management of major projects. Among the areas of interest are the following:

• Advanced Microwave Communications
• Acoustics
• Aeronautical and Space Systems Analysis
• Computer Systems and Networks
• Materials and Structures, including Mechanical Components and Lubrication
• Icing and Cryogenic Systems
• Instrumentation, Controls and Electronics
• Fluids, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Turbomachinery
• Electric (Ion) Propulsion for Spacecraft
• Microgravity Fluid Physics, Combustion Phenomena and Bioengineering
• Nanotechnology
• Photovoltaics, Electrochemistry-Physics, and Thermal Energy Conversion
• Propulsion System Aerodynamics
• Space Power Generation, Storage, Distribution and Management
• Systems Engineering
• Advanced Energy (Renewable Wind, Solar and Coal Energy, Alternative Energy)

The deadline for receipt of complete application has been extended to 5:00 PM (EST) on Thursday, February 3, 2011. Application outcomes will be announced by March 31, 2011.

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NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) Faculty Project
NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) is accepting applications for summer 2011 faculty fellowships. The purpose of these fellowship opportunities is to prepare faculty members to enable their students to complete senior design projects with potential contribution to NASA ESMD objectives. The faculty will work for a continuous period of six (6) to twelve (12) weeks at a NASA field center on a selected ESMD project and incorporate the ESMD project into an existing senior design course or capstone course at their university in the 2011/2012 academic year. During the designated weeks at a NASA field center, each faculty fellow will work side-by-side with a NASA technical expert. The faculty will gain extensive knowledge on the ESMD-related project including the associated requirements, interfaces and issues affecting the design and potential solution(s). The faculty will develop course materials for use at their university during the 2011/2012 academic year in support of the completion of senior design project(s) using a systems engineering approach.

Deadline to Apply
December 1, 2010, 5:00 p.m. PST

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Student Opportunities

Internship Opportunities!

OH-SPACE! (Ohio-Space Partnerships Advancing Career Exploration)
OH-SPACE! is a student summer internship program funded through NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate which focuses on research exploration with Ohio industry partners.

Students will be selected for hands-on research experience working with one of the five companies listed below. Ideal candidates will be undergraduate and graduate students pursuing an engineering degree in a STEM-related field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics). Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Chosen applicants will be expected to work full time with an industry partner for 10 weeks during the summer of 2011 (or other arrangements can be made with the individual company). Students will be paid an $8,000 stipend. Note that all intern positions are contingent on funding.

Eligibility

• Must be a United States citizen to participate. Proof of citizenship will be required if selected.
• Age 18 or older.
• Undergraduate (beyond Sophomore year) and graduate students are eligible to apply.
• Minimum of 30 credit hours/45 quarter hours completed.
• Minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0.
• Enrolled full-time in an accredited Ohio university, college, or an Ohio resident attending an accredited university or college in another state.

Company and Position Description
The OSGC is excited to partner with the following five companies during Summer, 2011:

• Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (CRG) - Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (CRG) combines creative science and engineering to design and apply state-of-the-art materials and systems solutions for commercial and military markets. Located in Dayton, Ohio, CRG values teamwork, integrity, and excellence.
  
  CRG offers excellent hands-on lab experience in a fun, innovative, team-oriented R&D environment, where we make our customers' dreams become reality. CRG's corporate culture creates a climate of "accelerated experience" for its Research Associates (co-op/intern students). The co-ops/interns work alongside full-time professional staff in a hands-on laboratory environment on both government and commercial customer projects. This accelerated work experience gives college students graduate-level challenges and real-world work experience while undergraduates.
  
  Candidates will support state-of-the-art research and development in one or more of the following areas:
  
  - Materials science/engineering and chemical engineering
  - Aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and composite engineering
  - Polymer and organic chemistry
  
  Click here for additional information about co-op/internship opportunities with Cornerstone Research Group, Inc.



• Etegent Technologies – located in Cincinnati, conducts research in automatic target recognition utilizing radar, multi-mode LADAR, image, vibrometry and other data types; health monitoring of turbine engines and other assets; mechatronic product development; and other areas. Etegent Technologies seeks physics-based approaches to understand and reveal meaning in measured data and complex systems.
  
  Etegent Technologies is seeking a Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering major to work on remote sensing and control of orbiting satellite systems.



• L-3 Cincinnati Electronics (CE) – located in Cincinnati, is an established pioneer in space exploration and military/defense technology. A leader in high technology and engineering services, CE is world renowned for its expertise in the areas of infrared detection and space & missile electronics. As a first-rank engineering and production company, CE is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of highly-sophisticated electronics equipment that is used in a variety of product areas for government, civil and commercial applications.
  
  CE is seeking an Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering student to participate in the design, development, and test of next generation avionics and spacecraft transmitters. The student will assist the avionics and transmitter design teams and support the hardware, VHDL integration, and test phase of the development. In addition, the student will assist the design team in developing and maintaining a configuration-controlled bill of material which will be used for the production phase of the contract.
  
  Click here for additional information and requirements with L-3.



• Sierra Lobo – Sierra Lobo, located in Milan, OH, offers customers a full range of professional and technical capabilities, including Test and Evaluation, Systems Engineering, and Advanced Technologies. In our corporate Technology Development and Engineering Center (TDEC) in Milan, we also develop products and processes related to Cryogenic Fluid and Thermal Management Systems, Densified Propellant Management Systems, and Prototype Extreme Pressure and Temperature Systems. Our customers include the Department of Defense (DoD), the U. S. Air Force, U. S. Navy, U. S. Army, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
  
  Sierra Lobo is seeking an undergraduate Electrical Engineering major, who will work in the Research and Technology Department. Job responsibilities will include performing analysis and benchtop experiments to determine technical feasibility of candidate technologies. The work will focus on a single technology that is determined by the student and researcher at the beginning of the term based on the status of ongoing research and the student's background and interests. Examples of candidate technologies are propellant management, docking mechanisms, and magnetoaerodynamic de-orbit. If the conclusions of the feasibility study are positive, the student will outline a program for implementing the technology in a CubeSat-scale testbed.



• ZIN Technologies, Inc. – located in Cleveland, provides integrated products and spaceflight hardware development services to NASA and Fortune 500 companies. ZIN-Tech specializes in the seamless and transparent progression between concept, detailed design, engineering, manufacturing, and operations. ZIN-Tech, with its uniquely qualified staff, and a proven track record of award winning work, delivers product development, system prototypes, and space flight hardware on time and under budget. ZIN-Tech has scientists, engineers, and technicians engaged in the development of specialized data acquisition and control systems, power converters, and optical-mechanical systems for aerospace and commercial applications.
  
  ZIN Technologies is seeking an undergraduate Electrical Engineering major, who will work on research and development.

Apply for OH-SPACE!
Click here to download application form in Microsoft Word.

Deadline to submit completed Application Package is: Monday, February 28, 2011. Application package must include: 1) Completed Application; 2) Current Resume; 3) Personal Objective Statement. You can either email your completed application package to: OSGC@oai.org, or mail it to the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Office at the following address:

Ohio Space Grant Consortium
22800 Cedar Point Road
Cleveland, OH 44142

Lewis Educational and Research Collaborative Internship Program (LERCIP)
The Lewis Educational and Research Collaborative Internship Program (LERCIP) provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to work on collaborative research projects with NASA scientists, engineers, and visiting summer faculty.

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The Ohio Aerospace Internship Program
The Ohio Aerospace Internship Program is a new program created in response to Ohio’s Third Frontier Internship Program Opportunity. The Program’s focus is on Ohio. Participating students, therefore, are Ohio residents who attend Ohio academic institutions and meet the required qualifications of the Third Frontier Internship Program. These individuals are matched with Ohio-located internship opportunities. The Program’s focus is also exclusively on aerospace; participating companies providing internship opportunities pursue aerospace-related enterprises in the State of Ohio.

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NASA Academy
The NASA Academy is a unique summer experience at the university level for developing future leaders of the U. S. Space Program. The program is an intensive, resident, 10-week summer experience (June through August) with laboratory research work, a group project, lectures, meetings with experts and administrators, visits to NASA Centers and space-related industries, technical writing, and presentations. Students discover how NASA and its Centers operate, gain experience in world-class laboratories, participate in a team environment and build professional bonds. Upon graduation, Academy participants are inducted into the NASA Academy Alumni Association (NAAA) whose goal is to promote NASA, the NASA Academy, research, and space education. The NASA Academy is co-sponsored by the participating NASA Centers and the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.

The Academies are intensive educational programs emphasizing group activities, teamwork, research, and creativity. The curriculum balances direct contact with science and engineering R & D with an awareness of the managerial, political, financial, social and human issues faced by aerospace professionals. Included are seminars, informal discussions, evening lectures, supervised research, visits to other NASA Centers and facilities, group project/s, tours, posters/presentations, and assessment. Additionally, most weekends are filled with group activities, team building and off-site trips. One free weekend is scheduled.

The Academy is not a 9-5 summer research internship program. It is a rigorous, immersive experience that will challenge you. It offers participants an intense learning experience that is either space or aeronautics based. All academy students will be immersed in a NASA environment where they will experience the agency from both inside and outside perspectives. Additionally, added interaction with NASA collaborators in industry and academia will provide unique, exciting and unforgettable summer experience.

The Academies have separate focus areas of leadership (NASA Academy), robotics, aeronautics, space and planetary science, and propulsion.

• NASA Academy at Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA)
• NASA Academy at Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, OH)
• NASA Academy at Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL)
• NASA Aeronautics Academy at Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, OH)
• NASA Aeronautics Academy at Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA)
• NASA Lunar and Planetary Science Academy at Goddard Space Flight (Greenbelt, MD)
• NASA Propulsion Academy at Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL)
• NASA Robotics Academy at Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA)
• NASA Robotics Academy at Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL)

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NASA Glenn Academy for Space Exploration and
New NASA Glenn Aeronautics Academy

The NASA Space Academy at Ames, Glenn, Goddard and Marshall, as well as the NASA Aeronautics Academy at Glenn and Langley, offer immersive and integrated multi-disciplinary exposure and training for students with various backgrounds and career aspirations of critical importance to the national space and aeronautics, and related disciplines program. The goal is to prepare the requisite workforce of young professionals for employment in space and aeronautics careers.

The curricula of the various components of the Space and Aeronautics Academies balance opportunities for direct experience in advanced science and engineering research and technology, and an awareness of the complex managerial, political, financial, social, and human issues faced by current and future Aerospace and Aeronautics programs.

Co-sponsorship of the Academies assures recruitment of meritorious students from previously under-represented areas of the country into leadership positions for aerospace and aeronautics programs of the future. The curricula of technical presentations, mentored and group research, and leadership training will impart valuable experience to the participants and enhance their career aspirations.

Specifically, the Aeronautics Academy will provide unique and valuable learning experiences for the next generation of leaders in aeronautics. Participants will be provided with team- and system-level experience at their respective host NASA centers and across the centers. In particular, selected students will work on multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted problems, guided by professional scientists and engineers at host NASA centers.

The team projects are designed, not only to help develop and reinforce team-building, project management and leadership attributes, but also systems integration, problems-solving, and interaction with NASA and industry leaders in aeronautics. The combined attributes noted above are aligned with national and ARMD need for sustainment of aeronautics STEM workforce.

Visits to other NASA centers, NASA-affiliated aeronautics industry, and national laboratories will help the Aeronautics Academy participants to become familiar with NASA-mission contributions by NASA partners and collaborators. Armed with the enumerated training and development, the Aeronautics Academy will help prepare the requisite workforce of young professionals for an array of employment opportunities in aeronautics careers.

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NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP)

The NASA Undergraduate Student Research Project, or USRP, offers internship opportunities for undergraduate science and engineering students at all 10 NASA centers and additional partner facilities. These mentor-guided internships provide hands-on, real-life, career-related experiences that challenge, inspire, and provide practical application that complements and expands upon students' academic education. Three internship sessions are offered: a 15-week spring session, a 10-week summer session and a 15-week autumn session. Eligible applicants must be classified as sophomores, juniors or seniors by the start of their internship. The students must be U.S. citizens with academic majors or course concentration in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or physical and life sciences.

Summer 2011 Session
Deadline - February 1, 2011

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NASA Education Invites Students to Drop Everything!

NASA's Dropping In a Microgravity Environment (DIME) and What If No Gravity? (WING) allow students in high school and in middle school to design and build an experiment that will be operated in a NASA research drop tower. This will put the students' experiment in microgravity, just as if it were in space.

Four teams in the high school DIME competition will be invited to visit NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and operate their experiment in the drop tower. Four additional teams will send their experiment to Glenn for the drop tower staff to operate it.

Teams of students in grades 5-8 in the WING program will propose for the opportunity to build an experiment to be operated in the same drop tower by NASA drop tower staff.

All DIME and WING teams will analyze their data from the experiment operations and write a final report. The students' process of experiment development through to a final report mimics the process used by NASA and other researchers.

Proposal postmark deadline date is Nov. 1, 2011. Selected teams will be announced in early-December and drop tower operations will be conducted in March 2012.

The DIME & WING competitions are funded by NASA’s Teaching From Space program.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/teachingfromspace/home/index.html

For more information about both DIME & WING, please visit http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html.

If you have questions about this opportunity, please e-mail your inquiries to the DIME & WING team at dime@lists.nasa.gov.