A Summer at NASA Goddard & elsewhere Mini sabbaticals can invigorate your career, help students and colleagues, and yield unexpected benefits.

Last summer I found myself at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center outside of Washington, DC doing research on carbon nanotubes for magnetometers with a Dr. Stephanie Getty and two BYU students. I will talk about our experiences: how it was that we came to be there, what we did, our results and long-term consequences. I will also address the summer opportunities for students and faculty at national labs and defense laboratories. I will talk about unexpected results, what we wished we had known before we went and we can do at BYU to support one another in such activities.

outline Opportunities ESMD faculty-Studetn Teams –History of our involvemetn. – logistics Lab

Faculty Student NSF DOE labs: NIST: NASA

NIST: Jacque Jackson 2006

NASA has various Space Grant consortia –Rocky Mountain Goddard Academy

NASA Academy : Cody Short 2006

Hi, We are pleased to offer you and a student of your choice an ESMD student- faculty fellowship for the summer of You would be doing research at Goddard Space Flight Center with Stephanie Getty whose address is and telephone number is The benefits of the Fellowship are: -A stipend of $1400/week for 10 weeks for you -A relocation payment of $1500 for you -Travel to and from Goddard BEFORE the start of the program to discuss the summer research with your NASA colleagues. -Travel to an from Goddard during the summer ($0.40/per mile mileage). We strongly recommend bringing your car.

The student will receive -A stipend of $ Housing at the University of Maryland -Three dinners per week -Daily transport to and from Goddard (about 2 miles away) The most important benefit, of course, will be the opportunities for mutual enrichment between Goddard engineers and your university. We hope to be able to sponsor an early fall trip by your Goddard colleague to your university.

The program period should extend over ten weeks (more or less continuous) during the summer. If you take a week to go to a conference, then you should anticipate extending your stay at GSFC for another week. Student housing can only be offered between May 30 and August 13. We would work with you to make arrangements outside that period, but cannot provide extra funding. You and your student MUST be either US Citizens or holders of immigrant (green card) status. We would be interested in discussing the possibility of your bringing more students during the summer, either for the complete period or some portion thereof. Please let me know by return whether you intend to accept this offer.

I remain, Very truly yours, Richard P. Fahey

Andrew Ning Graduate Aug 2006 Now at Stanford Looking for summer work Tried NASA One required faculty- student teams He called me in late Jan.

NameFirstCollegeStudentColleagueCoResearch AbrahntesMiguelHope CollegeLuke Went Cynthia Cheung695 Tetrahedral Walking Robot Aaron Silver AllredDavidBYU Johnathon Goodsell Stephanie Getty541 Carbon Nanotube magnetometer Jon Brame BartonOscar US Naval Academy Joseph Navarre (1/3)John Vranish500 Analysis of Gear- Miguel Recalde (1/3) Brandon Bonton (1/3) bearing Epicyclic Zerbin Singleton (1/3) Gear Trains BrownJamesCatholic Univ.Kevin MilstedJeffrey Didion545 Micro-scale Thermal Control

HollermanWilliam Louisiana/La fayetteRobert Moore Gunther Kletetschka691 Gas Gun for Lunar Exploration Noah Bergeron (1/2) Charles Malespin (1/2) LookadooJames Pittsburg State Donavan WheelerDave Israel567 advanced technical communications Cassandra Stuckey OlivierPhillipMercer, GABryan SolomonCynthia Cheung695 Tetrahedral Robot Lauren Jarrelle Ramirez- AnguloJaime New Mexico State Paul Mark VizcainoMike Johnson560 Reconfigurable Integrated Circuits

Feb March –Scott Sommerfeldt –Your are one of 12 for 8 slots April –Who will go –How does it work out May –Johnathan Goodsell, Jon Brame and Me

logistics 1. I had a meeting in DC 2. We arrange for program to start right away 3. we arrange who comes when 4. stay? Dynamic 5. Eat? 6. Car?

Goddard home page ers/goddard/home/index. html ers/goddard/home/index. html Goddard_Space_Flight_ Center Map t/MAPLDCon98/NASAGS FCAreaMap.htm t/MAPLDCon98/NASAGS FCAreaMap.htm

The lab

Results Papers Presentations

You might not have guessed results I saw some very important people in the east. Relatives and friends I went to a conference for $200 which otherwise would have cost $1200+

Some observations Bring your own computer. Have accounts at gmail

What didn’t happen I never met some of the people at Goddard I meant to meet I didn’t tour some of the places at goddard I meant to see I only once wnet down to tha Mall I never went to see the NSF, DOE project monitors.

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