FDSS: Augmentation of Space Sciences Faculty at Dartmouth

FDSS：达特茅斯空间科学学院的扩充

• 批准号: 0457561
• 负责人: Robyn Millan
• 金额: $ 98.59万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0457561&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FDSS; Augmentation; Space; Sciences; Faculty

Dartmouth College will recruit a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of experimental space science. Although the new faculty member will be assigned to the Physics and Astronomy Department with an adjunct appointment in the Engineering School, the Engineering School will contribute many key resources, including laboratory space and technical support, making this project a truly interdisciplinary effort. The new faculty member will lead an innovative undergraduate research program, modeled after the pilot DartSat student satellite design project which has been run at Dartmouth over the past six years, but without benefit of dedicated faculty guidance. The new faculty member will allow Dartmouth to fill critical gaps in its space science curriculum, as well as increase the frequency of existing course offerings. Public outreach efforts at Dartmouth in space sciences, currently involving K-12 teacher training through the local science museum, will be strengthened by development of a pre-college student program which will grow out of the undergraduate research program. The new faculty member will develop an independent externally-funded research program, which will sustain graduate and undergraduate student training in experimental space sciences, addressing the shortfall of opportunities for hands-on training of the next generation of space scientists that has been identified in National Academy reports. This research program will involve partnerships with other academic and research institutions and industry, and take advantage of related theory, ground- and space-based infrastructure investments by NSF and other government agencies. Creating a tenure line position in experimental space sciences at Dartmouth with resources from two departments will ensure that the interdisciplinary space science program developed at Dartmouth over the past two decades will sustain national needs in space sciences manpower.

达特茅斯学院将招聘一名实验空间科学领域的终身助理教授。虽然新的教师将被分配到物理和天文学系，并在工程学院担任兼职，但工程学院将提供许多关键资源，包括实验室空间和技术支持，使该项目成为真正的跨学科努力。这位新教师将领导一个创新的本科生研究项目，该项目以过去六年在达特茅斯运行的DartSat学生卫星设计试点项目为模型，但没有专门的教师指导。这位新教师将使达特茅斯填补其空间科学课程的关键空白，并增加现有课程的开设频率。达特茅斯在空间科学方面的公共宣传工作目前涉及通过当地科学博物馆进行的K-12教师培训，将通过开发一个大学预科学生项目来加强，该项目将从本科研究项目中发展出来。新的教员将开发一个独立的外部资助的研究计划，这将维持研究生和本科生在实验空间科学的培训，解决机会短缺的动手培训的下一代空间科学家已被确定在国家科学院的报告。该研究计划将涉及与其他学术和研究机构以及行业的合作伙伴关系，并利用相关理论，NSF和其他政府机构的地基和天基基础设施投资。在达特茅斯的实验空间科学中建立一个终身职位，利用两个部门的资源，将确保过去二十年在达特茅斯发展的跨学科空间科学计划将维持国家对空间科学人力的需求。