Apply now for Spaceflight Operations Workshop™ ! Do you have what it takes?
Author: John Burnett-Larkins
If “What I Did This Summer” essays were still a thing in school, the Department of Aerospace Engineering Spaceflight Operations Workshop™ would offer some great inspiration.
And while those selected for this year’s edition may or may not be writing essays about it later, it will give them something even more valuable: a new way of looking at the world and handling challenges – from an “operational” standpoint.
The application period for the two-week experience, set for August 2-14, 2022, is now open. As always, it will depart from the typical college classroom experience, to engage students in hands-on activities to learn planning, execution, and teamwork while transforming their thought processes to be more operationally centered.
It’s open to all Iowa State University education and engineering undergraduates, students from other institutions and to middle school, secondary and post-secondary educators.
See how the workshop can be a game-changer for you – personally and professionally.
The workshop is not designed to create future astronauts; it works to create a shift in one’s personal ability to think more operationally. It will present stressful conditions at times, with crewmembers experiencing long days filled with multiple activities.
Those activities include such things as SCUBA diving (with all participants successfully completing the program receiving SCUBA certification) skydiving, aircraft flight simulation, wilderness survival training, virtual reality emergency response aboard the International Space Station and more.
Classroom activities cover subjects such as space law, space physiology and leadership and team performance.
The workshop was created by and is coordinated by former NASA astronaut, Iowa State aerospace engineering alumnus and department faculty member Clayton Anderson. It is co-coordinated by fellow alum and faculty member Tomas Gonzalez-Torres, who is a former NASA Space Station flight director.
Do you have what it takes?
Learn more and apply on the workshop page of the Department of Aerospace Engineering web site. The application deadline has been extended to 11:59 p.m. April 2.