在NASA的夏天
Engineering students work with NASA and 爱达荷太空资助协会 industry partners
University of 爱达荷州 工程学院 学生 are interning with NASA across the country and here in 爱达荷州.
学生们通过 爱达荷太空资助协会 (ISGC)在莫斯科校区. ISGC将学生与导师联系起来, career-related internship programs that contribute to NASA’s mission of space exploration and discovery.
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Mechanical engineering majors 贾齐亚·格雷夫斯，麦肯齐·塞克斯顿和麦肯齐·齐默 are working in the Aeromechanics Office at the NASA Ames 研究 Center this summer.
“我绝对没有想过我会为美国宇航局工作，我来自爱达荷州. 我不仅有这个很棒的机会，我还认识这里的其他实习生. ” Jadzia坟墓
来自爱达荷州库纳的机械工程专业
在一起, they have been updating computer-aided design models for about 15 rotary-wing aircraft, 其中一些将被3D打印用于未来的原型和研究. The process also helps NASA identify manufacturing issues that may arise before the rotorcraft hit the commercial sector.
They’ve even updated models for NASA’s six-passenger drone that’s being considered for use with Uber Elevate, 这家运输公司计划在2023年推出空中拼车服务.
“We’re trying to make it as easy as possible for models to be transformed into code to analyze the performance of the aircraft,齐默说。, 2019年毕业于博伊西大学, 爱达荷州. “我们三个人一起做同一件事，这很有帮助. 我们能够互相帮助，并寻求帮助.”
齐默之前曾在艾姆斯实习, but Graves and Sexton were both surprised when an email from NASA landed in their inbox.
The three are part of a 60-intern group, 6 of which are from the University of 爱达荷州.
“The first few weeks, I thought, ‘This is fake,’ said Sexton, who hails from Burlington, Washington. “For anyone thinking about a NASA internship, don’t worry about the interpersonal aspect. Everyone really cares for each other, there’s a lot of comradery and it’s not intimidating.”
Mechanical engineering major 瑞奇·巴普蒂斯塔 is spending his summer with Quest Aircraft Company. 基于Sandpoint, 爱达荷州, the 美国宇航局爱达荷太空资助联盟 industry partner specializes in the design and manufacturing of short takeoff and landing aircraft used for humanitarian missions across the world.
“你可以从实习中获得很多实践经验. Going through school, you kind of feel like there’s a huge aspect that can’t be taught in class. There is this aspect of being able to work with other people and being able to work independently. 这有点像学习如何做人. ” 瑞奇·巴普蒂斯塔
来自爱达荷州布尔的机械工程专业
作为一个青少年, 瑞奇花了很多时间在他家乡布尔附近的小机场, 爱达荷州, 只是为了看飞机起降，偶尔和飞行员聊聊天. 晚些时候, 在高中的一次模拟面试中, 里奇碰到了他遇到的一个飞行员, and eventually landed an apprenticeship working under the direct supervision of a licensed aircraft mechanic.
“I started off small, like cleaning the belly of airplanes and slowly moving my way up. 我获得了很多实践经验, 做一些事情，比如换刹车片, 协助年检工作, 清洗火花塞.”
“When it was time to go to college, I wanted a place far away from home but not too far. 伊利诺伊大学以其工程专业而闻名. 与当地人交谈, 我发现如果你去读工程专业, 想留在爱达荷州, 你去了犹他大学.”
Ricky is getting back into aeronautics from a space-focused stint during his first three years at U of I. He and an interdisciplinary team of undergraduates were awarded an Undergraduate Student Instrument Project grant from NASA's Office of Education in 2016. The team’s project used high-altitude balloons to launch three different payloads to the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.
化学 engineering majors Alathea Davies and 梅森安德森 are interns at the NASA Ames 研究 Center in 加州 this summer, working to identify material properties of a resin used to coat the heat shields on NASA capsules, 没有机翼重返地球大气层的航天器.
“这样的实习是世界上最好的社交机会.” 梅森安德森
化工专业
“大约一年前, 我决定要进入航天领域, 所以最明显的选择就是去NASA实习. 来这里和人们见面, 现在我看到了我在课堂上学到的东西的真正应用. It’s helping me get focused and to funnel my future plans and expectations,” said Davies.
这是梅森第二次访问NASA艾姆斯. Last summer he also had a preliminary visit to help work on thermal protection systems and other instruments.
Materials science and engineering major 詹姆斯Zillinger is working alongside NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center this summer.
“用化学火箭去火星, 你预计将在9个月的时间内到达，而且没有燃料可以返回. Going nuclear, you have a closer to a two-month arrival time with fuel to get home. ” 詹姆斯Zillinger
来自爱达荷州特洛伊的材料科学与工程专业
His work is a continuation of nuclear rocket fuel analysis that began in the 60s and 70s. Nuclear propulsion’s moderate thrust and high fuel efficiency make it a prime candidate for getting humans into space in a short timeframe for longer missions.
詹姆斯的工作包括研究在核火箭燃料中使用金属陶瓷. The ceramic and metallic components of cermets make them one of the few materials able to survive the extreme heat created during nuclear propulsion.
这是詹姆斯在NASA的第二个夏天. Findings from his summer 2018 internship were published and presented during the Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space annual meeting.
免责声明: 所表达的观点和意见不一定陈述或反映美国的观点和意见.S. 政府或NASA.
文章由工程学院的Alexiss Turner撰写
2019年8月发布