ESA Academy - Current Engineering Challenge (deadline: 31/03/17)

ESA Academy - Current Engineering Challenge

The ESA Academy Concurrent Engineering Challenge will feature groups of 15-25 students, each one supervised by two system engineers in different CDFs within ESA Member and Associate State universities; and an additional group in ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Centre. Groups will be given a specific mission to design within four days.

Students in each group will be divided into small teams of two or three to cover the following disciplines: structures, configuration, power, mechanisms, thermal, Attitude and Orbit Control System for a Satellite (AOCS), propulsion, optics / sensors, trajectory analysis, and communications / data handling. Students within each small team will create a subsystem concept in order to later achieve the mission parameters using the Concurrent Engineering approach.

The groups will not compete against each other, but will rather use video conferencing to share each day’s progress, raise any particular difficulties they are facing, and receive helpful input from the other participants. At the end of the week each group will present their final design.

• Ultimately, students involved in the challenge will learn about the Concurrent Engineering approach and its benefits, and how to use the Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT). 

Deadline for applications is 31 March 2017

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