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18 October 2018 Dreaming of flying a satellite into space but not sure how? Wonder no more! The ESA Education Office and are looking for university students to participate in the second edition of ESA Academy’s Concurrent Engineering Workshop dedicated to CubeSats. The 4-day workshop will be organised between 15 and 18 January 2019 at the Training and Learning Facility in -Galaxia, Belgium. In concurrent design, all stages of a satellite design take place simultaneously, through the direct collaboration of engineers and scientists from different disciplines in a dedicated and specially equipped facility. This leads to quicker, more efficient designs of space missions, but it has its own set of challenges.
This seminar will include information on how DFM+A fits in with QFD, concurrent engineering, robust engineering, and other disciplines. In addition, there will be a brief demonstration of computer software tools, which simplify the DFM+A analysis.
Solutions in one area that could impact the design in another must be identified and communicated instantly. ESA’s main (CDF) is located at ESA’s ESTEC centre in the Netherlands. In collaboration with the engineers running it, ESA Education Office has developed a similar CDF for educational purposes at ESEC-Galaxia, as part of the programme.
The “CubeSats Concurrent Engineering Workshop” introduces student teams to the concurrent design of a CubeSat mission. The workshop can help to better prepare those universities that are planning to embark on a CubeSat project or are at the early stages of one. Teams wishing to participate do not need to be at an advanced stage in their CubeSat project. They can be at a conceptual and/or preliminary phase of their CubeSat design. During the Workshop they will get the opportunity to present their CubeSat project to the other students and experts. Complementary lectures will also be offered to become acquainted with (FYS) programme as well as ESA good practices. Participation in this workshop may therefore be an excellent starting point for a possible future application to the FYS programme.
Students at the CubeSats Concurrent Engineering Workshop 2018 Workshop participants will be divided into groups of students and will be assigned to one of the following disciplines:. systems engineering,. trajectory analysis,. configuration & structures,. power,. communications & data handling,.
attitude and orbit control system (AOCS),. thermal. Students will then be given CubeSat mission requirements and constraints. Guided by ESA system engineers, they will use the Concurrent Engineering approach and tools to perform a system ‘flow down’, which takes the mission requirements and translates them into system and subsystem requirements. Several possible solutions will arise from this analysis, and the students will compare these to understand the trade-offs of each design solution. Eventually, after several concurrent engineering iterations, the students will come to a final concept design that they will present and defend, discipline per discipline, to ESA experts. Preliminary schedule Day 1 Introduction to Concurrent Engineering and Requirements Management Get familiar with Workbooks and Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT) Introduction to the Mission Student team CubeSat projects presentations CubeSat Architectures Day 2 First Concurrent Engineering iteration Introduction to ESA, ESA Education and the Fly Your Satellite!
Programme Day 3 Finalisation of the first Concurrent Engineering iteration ESA TEC CubeSats Visit of ESEC-Redu How to increase CubeSat reliability Second Concurrent Engineering iteration Day 4 Finalisation of the second Concurrent Engineering iteration Final Presentations. Who can apply? Preferred teams are those that are considering to start, or have recently started a university CubeSat project, and/or those teams interested in applying Concurrent Engineering methodologies to their CubeSat design. CubeSat teams must comply with the following requirements:. the CubeSat team must be from a University based in an;. at least 4 university students are participating in the project;. the project is educational.
All team members willing to participate in the Workshop must fulfil the following eligibility criteria at the time of application:. be aged between 18 and 32;. be a citizen of an ESA Member or Associate State;. be enrolled as a full-time 3 rd / 4 th year Bachelor, Master or PhD student in a university (not graduating before the workshop);. be studying an engineering subject or physics.
ESA will cover the cost of accommodation and meals as well as up to 200 euros for travelling to Belgium, for each selected student. How to apply An overview of the CubeSat project shall be submitted by the team leader (e.g. University professor or academic leading the team). Students within each team shall submit their individual application as well. Note that only a limited number of students from each team will be invited to attend the Workshop. For student selection within each team, several factors will be taken into consideration, such as the overall balance of disciplines during the concurrent engineering work and the educational return for the team. Team members are not allowed to apply via multiple teams.
Team leader:. Download the and fill it out;. Send it to esa.academy @ esa.int (PDF, maximum 8 pages). The subject of the email and the file name should be in the format ‘CCEW2019 – CubeSat Project Overview – (Name of the team)’; Team members:. Fill in the online:.
Provide CubeSat team name;. Select preferred subsystems;. Upload a motivation letter (PDF, maximum 1 page, no images);. Upload a CV (, PDF, maximum 2 pages, no images);. Upload a formal recommendation letter (PDF, maximum 1 page, including signature, no images) from a university professor or academic supervisor at current university;. Upload an official copy of academic records (PDF, in English, with the university stamp).
All answers and documents should be in English (except academic records if not available). The deadline for applications is 26 November 2018, 23:59 CET.
For more information, please contact esa.academy @ esa.int.
Students in the concurrent design facility 14 December 2016 Following the success of the first Concurrent Engineering Workshop held in September 2016, the ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Programme is again offering university students the opportunity to learn how ESA assesses technical and financial feasibility of space missions. Europe’s leadership in space depends upon its ability to continue developing world-class satellites. To do that, we need to train a new generation of space engineers and scientists. ESA’s Education Office is looking for 44 talented and motivated university students from an ESA Member or Associate States with an engineering or physics background to take part in one of the two upcoming Concurrent Engineering Workshops which will take place on the following dates: 14-17 March and 9-12 May 2017.
Concurrent engineering is a method of designing and developing products in the space sector. Contrary to the traditional design methods, in Concurrent Engineering all subsystems are designed simultaneously. This is a far more efficient way of designing, but it has its own challenges as well. Solutions in one area that could impact the design in another must be identified and communicated instantly.
Although concurrent engineering is a more complicated process to begin with, in effect it allows mistakes to be identified earlier, therefore reducing the design time. Students introducing themselves ESA’s main Concurrent Design Facility is located at ESA’s technology centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands.
At ESA’s Redu Centre, in the frame of the ESA Academy, ESA has developed a similar facility exclusively for educational purposes. Access to this facility complements what students are learning at university by familiarising them with the concurrent engineering approach. It also offers student teams the opportunity to benefit from CDF sessions during the feasibility study or preliminary design of their own space projects. Content of the workshop The selected students will travel to the green expanses of Belgium’s Ardennes region, where the ESA Academy Training and Learning Centre is located. Here at one of Europe’s principal radio links to space, the students will learn about concurrent engineering and its benefits. Guided by ESA experts, the students will first learn to use the Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT) and identify design drivers. Students attending presentation Students will be divided into groups of 2 or 3 and will cover the following disciplines: structures, configuration, power, mechanisms, thermal, AOCS, propulsion, optics/sensors, trajectory analysis, and communications/data handling.
Together with their group, students will create a subsystem concept in order to later achieve an already identified mission concept using concurrent engineering. They will start with a first iteration of all the subsystems and a budget that they will have to review and present before starting a second iteration. A second iteration will then be done according to the identified function tree and product tree and, at the end, the mission design will be finalised and presented. A few weeks before the event, the selected students will be informed about the mission and they will receive an OCDT tutorial to get familiar with the tool.
Afterwards, a Webex meeting with CDF experts will be organised so that students can be guided on the use of OCDT. The deadline for applications is 18 January 2017, 23:59 CET. How to apply.
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Fill in the application;. Select preferred subsystems;. Provide availability for the workshops dates;. Upload a motivation letter (PDF, maximum 1 page, no images);. Upload a CV (PDF, maximum 2 pages, no images);. Upload a formal recommendation letter (PDF, maximum 1 page, including signature, no images) from a university professor or an academic supervisor;. Upload an official copy of academic records (PDF, in English, with the University Stamp).
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For more information, please contact esa.academy @ esa.int.ESA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Associate Members: Canada, Slovenia.