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Student Paper: Assessment of System Integration Workshop of a CubeSat as an Effective Tool for STEAM Education, a work-in-progress Case Study

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Pedogogy and Training

Page Count

12

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41825

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https://peer.asee.org/41825

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300

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Jorge Kurita

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Dr. Jorge Kurita attended Universidad Nacional de Asuncion in Paraguay, where he got his BS in Electromechanical Engineering. After graduation, he spent some time in academia working as faculty. During this tenure, he taught courses on heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and physics. In 2004 Dr. Kurita was granted the Fulbright scholarship to attend a graduate program in Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He has finished his MS and then continued with a doctorate program. NASA and the NSF funded his doctorate research. Dr. Kurita's contribution to his field was well-published in several papers from high-impact journals. Since 2011 Dr. Kurita worked as a development engineer II in the competitive automotive industry, Filtran LLC, located in Des Plaines, Illinois. As an experimental researcher, his experience helped Filtran develop special testing techniques never implemented before on filtration systems. In addition, Dr. Kurita worked in the CAE group, contributing to developing simulation techniques to help build state-of-the-art filtration systems. Dr. Kurita participated in developing OEM filters; some of them obtained awards from Jatco and GM. From 2016 Dr. Kurita is back to his alma mater as an assistant professor in Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. Later the same year, he is appointed to lead the research department of the School of Engineering. In 2017 he was appointed to be the Mechanical Engineering Department head at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. In August of the same year, Dr. Kurita is awarded the "Distinguished Citizen by the City Council of Asunción" for his contributions to education in Paraguay's space sector. And in December of the same year, he was mentioned as the "Outstanding Protagonist of 2017" by the newspaper Ultima Hora. Currently, in addition to his activities in academia, Dr. Kurita is working as the General Director of Planning and Management at the Paraguay Space Agency.

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Claudia Rolón

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Derlis Ortiz Coronel

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Cristhian Coronel

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Hector Velazquez

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Senior year student of Mechatronic Engineering. Entrepreneur, co-founder of KorapyTech, startup focused on data collection and analysis for livestock production in Paraguay. Currently working as an intern at the AEP(Agencia Espacial del Paraguay).

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Abstract

After a successful launch and deployment of the first Paraguayan satellite, a CubeSat style, the GuaraniSat, public attention on how the New Space era is reaching this country was evidenced. This historical event helped inspire students to be involved in STEM. This was the motivation to design a workshop on nanosatellite system integration. With this, we expected improvements in teaching engineering fundamentals to college students. Space-related educational programs have grown in popularity as a motivating way to teach STEM subjects. Past CanSat (Can-Satellite) training program for teachers was proven to be effective in motivating students into STEM. In this work, a similar teaching approach was conducted. This time, a CubeSat-style prototype for educational purposes was used. Students were trained under this platform on subsystem integration and operations. This workshop was intended to teach engineering fundamentals such as sensor principles, signal conditioning systems, data acquisition fundamentals, and graphical user interface theory to a senior-level engineering student. This study aims to measure students' learning performance as they learn on each satellite subsystem working principles and how all of this is integrated and operated from a friendly graphical user interface. Indicators such as the following will be used to assess the impact on learning effectiveness: Experimentation and Iteration, Trial and Debugging, Reusing and Remixing, Abstraction and Modularization and will be scored as low, medium, or high. In addition, problem-solving abilities based on the Polya method will be taken into account. The process is categorized into problem comprehension, plan set up, plan execution, and obtained solution analysis. All evaluation procedures are based on engineering design competencies.

Kurita, J., & Rolón, C., & Ortiz Coronel, D., & Coronel, C., & Velazquez, H. (2022, August), Student Paper: Assessment of System Integration Workshop of a CubeSat as an Effective Tool for STEAM Education, a work-in-progress Case Study Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41825

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