ESA ACADEMY'S CONCURRENT ENGINEERING CHALLENGE 2019
(Competitions, Workshop)
- Language: ENGLISH
- Campus: MILANO BOVISA
- Enrollment: 17-09-2019to hour 12:00 on
31-10-2019
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- Teacher in charge
- LAVAGNA MICHÈLE ROBERTA
- Credits
- 2
- Hours to attend
- 40
- Max. number of students
- 30
Description of the initiative
The Concurrent Engineering Challenge (http://www.esa.int/Education/ESA_Academy/Students_are_called_to_apply_for_the_2019_Concurrent
_Engineering_Challenge) is proposed by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of its
_Engineering_Challenge) is proposed by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of its
program for future technical personnel training; among applicant Academies, ESA selects 3 of them -
belonging to the Member States - to lead 3 groups of students, in mimicking the work ESA usually
performs whenever facing the feasibility assessment of a new space mission; the Challenge sees its third
edition and aims introducing fresh engineers to the universally adopted working methodology in the
Space domain.
The Concurrent Engineering Challenge occurs in 5 full-day work run in group, to finalize a a space mission
design.
Four groups of up to 30 university students are selected: each group works simultaneously in 4 different
European locations, this year represented by: Cranfield University (UK), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), KTH
Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and ESA Academy facility (Belgium).
The design goes through each technical discipline of the on board devices and a strong team working to
ensure mission goals and system feasibility to be respected. Each day every team steps forward in the
design at its premise; at the end of the day a telecom session occurs to compare and share resultsissues
with the other three teams remotely located.
Through this Challenge, students learn to work in a multidisciplinary environment and complement what
they are learning at University by familiarising themselves with the concurrent engineering approach and
its benefits in space systems design, and also learn how ESA assesses technical and financial feasibility
of space missions. They also strengthen their capability to work in team; the challenge ends up with a
final presentation which enforces the partecipants to enhance their soft skills as well, to clearly and
exhaustively present their "product".
Duration
dal November 2019 a November 2019
Calendar
12-15 Novembre 2019 - orario: 8:45-18:45, fixed by the ESA Challenge