NASA Robotics Academy

[Brandon Martus]

NASA asked us to post this:

Deadline: January 31, 2006

The NASA Robotics Academy’s ten week resident summer internship for students interested in robotics seeks to cultivate and sustain interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields, and to address the gap in the robotics pipeline at the college freshmen and sophomore level. This is achieved by enabling hands-on alliances with NASA, academic institutions, and industry partners, with whom students work to achieve high-level technical deliverables in mechanical and electrical engineering, and computer science. Academic engineering credit from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Maryland will be given to thirty-six student participants working in nine separate labs that are co-hosted in the areas of two NASA centers – Ames Research Center and Goddard Space Flight Center (Students at Ames will be given credit from Carnegie Mellon, and Goddard students will be given credit from U. Maryland.)

The sponsoring Principal Investigator (PI) of each lab sets the direction and oversees week-to-week progress to guide the students toward their goals. Each team of four students will consist of three undergrad students - Interns - and a graduate student with extensive robotics experience and advanced robotics study - the Team Lead. Team Leads support the PIs by providing technical guidance and managing the project on a daily basis. Two professors from each participating university will serve as a Dean to the groups, meeting weekly to assess achievement of goals and to guide students with engineering or career-related advice. The interns will also participate in enriching activities such as a group project, lectures, field trips and meetings with leaders in the field.

Deadline: January 31, 2006
Dates: June 3, 2006 - August 12, 2006
Application: http://university.gsfc.nasa.gov/application/