CEDAR email: Info Webinar 4/7 & Eligibility Clarifications: 2020 NASA Heliophysics Mission Design School Applications Due April 13, 2020

[Lowes, Leslie L (US 1853)]

Info Webinar 4/7 & Eligibility Clarifications:  2020 NASA Heliophysics Mission Design School Applications Due April 13, 2020

Updates: (1) Eligibility extended to include early-career investigators (<10 years experience).

(2) An informational session, with chat Q&A, on the topic of applying to the 2020 Planetary Science Summer School or Heliophysics Mission Design School, will be held on April 7, 2020 at 11:00 am ET / 8:00 am PT.  Registration is required to participate. Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SMDS_InfoSession. A recording will be made available after the session for those unable to attend live.

Now through April 13, 2020, NASA is encouraging applications for the Heliophysics Mission Design School (HMDS), an early-career development pilot opportunity to help prepare the next generation of heliophysics science and engineering mission leaders.  This experience is an adaptation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s long-running Planetary Science Summer School, focused on high-priority heliophysics content and mission design.  Participants learn the process of developing a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and the trade-offs inherent in each.

Science and engineering doctoral candidates, postdocs, junior faculty, certain master’s degree students,  and all early-career investigators (<10 years experience) who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties), are eligible.  Selected participants in the school will be organized to have an effective mix of experience.  Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Partial financial support is available for a limited number of individuals.

Session 1: Preparatory Sessions Jun 22-Aug 28.  Culminating Week at JPL Aug 31-Sep 4

Session 2: Preparatory Sessions Sep 7-Nov 6.  Culminating Week at JPL Nov 9-13

Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course, participants spend the first 10 weeks in preparatory webinars acting as a science mission team, prior to spending the final culminating week at JPL being mentored by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team, or “Team X” to refine their heliophysics mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert review board.

To apply and learn more about the NASA Science Mission Design Schools:

http://go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools
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