Florida
Space Grant Consortium
Mail Stop: FSGC
Center for Space Education Bldg. M6-306,
Room 7010 Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
Tel # (321) 452-4301
Fax # (321) 449-0739
Email: fsgc@mail.ucf.edu
A Summer internship program in which undergraduates
from all over the state attend a 10-week summer internship
to experience real world research, on the job training.
Program
structure
22
students will be
selected and paid $4000 each for a 10 week program. The $4000
is to pay for the student's housing, food and transportation. They will
intern at companies at the Cape and with NASA. Students will
work for 10 weeks with NASA and Contractor Mentors to obtain
experience in the field.
Students must
make their own private or hotel accommodations for the 10 week period.
Students are also responsible for their own transportation.
Students are expected to consider this internship as full
time and therefore should not be attending summer classes.
KSC Research
Areas
1. Fluid
System Technologies
2. Spaceport Structures and Materials
3. Process and Human Factors Engineering
4. Command, Control and Monitoring Technologies
5. Range Technologies
6. Biological Sciences
Optional
Activities
Twice
a week, in the evenings, and several Saturdays, the students
will visit the Space Florida labs and
classroom at the Center for Space Education to conduct projects.
Students will build a high powered rocket with camera
payloads, altimeter and develop two stage engine firing for
the rockets. These rockets will be launched in Bunnell. In
addition, student will build a ozone sonde sensor to be
released on a weather balloon. We will track ozone levels
as part of a long term research to observe the changes of
ozone levels above Cape Canaveral.
Application Procedure
The NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium, through funding
from NASA, and Space Florida, through funding from the state
of Florida, will support 22
Florida undergraduates (US Citizens only)
as interns at the Kennedy Space Center, FL for the summer
of 2008.
1. All undergraduate students enrolled in a
Florida university are eligible for the internships
2. Open to US Citizens only.
3. KSC will make the final selection.
4. Florida Space Grant and/or Space Florida will pay a stipend of $4000 directly
to the student.
5. The internship will be for 10 weeks beginning in June 4,
2008
6. All interested students should send a cover letter
indicating the research area that they are interested (see
above) and if they are interested in the optional activity, a copy of
their transcript, at least one letter of recommendation, and their resume to
Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee
Florida Space Grant Consortium
Mail Stop:FSGC
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
Email: fsgc@mail.ucf.edu
8. The application package should reach the FSGC office by
March 4, 2008.
Please email (fsgc@mail.ucf.edu) or Tony Gannon (tgannon@spaceflorida.gov) if you have any questions.
