Conference Session

Spacecraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University; Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, technical challenges that crop up in I&T can extend the phase well beyond 5years.In Fall 2011, we offered the first course: Integration & Test of Space Systems with an enrollmentof nine undergraduates. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the objectives, syllabus andassessment of this course in spacecraft integration & test. We will place this course in the contextof aerospace engineering at our university and our other systems-engineering courses andintroduce the hands-on work done through the Research Laboratory and the COPPER satellite.We will assess the results of the first course and provide lessons learned and future work.Our first offering had mixed results; in addition to the typical mid-course corrections that