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CaSGC
Higher Education Programs
One
of the highest priorities of the CaSGC is to develop an effective
aerospace learning environment that has both curricular excellence
as well as hands-on skill development efforts. Each of the
CaSGC affiliates contributes to both areas throughout California.
Over
the past two years, almost every California Space Grant affiliate
has initiated student/mentor projects covering some aspect
of aerospace-related R&D, workforce development, education,
and public outreach. Each of these student-mentor programs
demonstrates baseline characteristics that the aerospace community
has realized are critical for solving the high tech workforce
problems in California. Those baseline characteristics are
as follows:
- Strong
engineering and science curricular programs at the graduate
and undergraduate levels
- Strong
use of web-assisted distance learning technologies
- Experiential
learning through "real" aerospace-related projects
- Highest
priority given to workforce skill development of students
& mentors
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Emphasizes students experiencing mission life cycle (define,
design, build, fly, analyze) in less than 2 years
- Community-based
private - public partnerships
- Involves
industry, government (local, State, and Federal) and academia
for mentors, facilities, and investment
In
addition the CaSGC, in partnership with the National Space
Grant Foundation and the California Space Grant Foundation,
have initiated intern and research experience programs at
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) and Dryden Flight Research
Center (DFRC).
The following affiliate higher education programs are examples
of ongoing efforts:
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