Small Spacecraft Development Project-Based Learning: Implementation and Assessment of an Academic Program

✍ Scribed by Jeremy Straub, Ronald Arthur Marsh, David J. Whalen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides the information that is required to start a small spacecraft program for educational purposes. This will include a discussion of multiple approaches to program formation and build / buy / hybrid decision considerations. The book also discusses how a CubeSat (or other small spacecraft program) can be integrated into course and/or program curriculum and the ancillary benefits that such a program can provide. The assessment of small spacecraft programs and participatory project-based learning programs is also discussed extensively. The book presents prior work related to program assessment (both for a single program and internationally) and discusses how similar techniques can be utilized for both formative and summative assessment of a new program. The utility of these metrics (and past assessment of other programs) in gaining buy-in for program formation and funding is also considered.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Why Start a Small Spacecraft Program....Pages 21-35
To Build, Buy, or in Between?....Pages 37-52
Starting a Small Spacecraft Program: Types of Programs and Their Benefits and Drawbacks....Pages 53-63
Forming a Program: Funding and Organizational Issues....Pages 65-75
Forming a Program: Technical and Logistical Issues....Pages 77-99
Student Involvement and Risk....Pages 101-128
Setting Educational Goals and Formative Assessment....Pages 129-150
Summative Assessment....Pages 151-173
Results of Prior Assessment Work and Its Utility....Pages 175-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-231

✦ Subjects

Engineering/Technology Education;Educational Technology;Science Education