Workshop to Explore the Utility of Cubesat Projects for Scientific Research and Technology Advances, and STEM Education and Workforce Development; Arlington, Virginia; May 24, 2012

该奖项的目的是为当前NSF cubesat项目的PI和学生提供旅行支持，以参加2012年5月24日在NSF举办的会议。 会议的目的是展示目前的项目如何促进创新和创造性的STEM教育和劳动力发展，以及前沿，跨学科的科学研究和技术进步。 专题介绍还将探讨未来立方体卫星项目从空间提供解决关键社会问题所需的关键测量的潜力，这些问题包括：气候变化、土地使用和资源管理、污染和灾害监测、通信和空间气象;并促进进一步的科学发现和工程创新，包括：空间制造，卫星和部件3D打印材料研究，传感器小型化，微机电（MEM）系统，系统工程，无线电科学，通信算法和网络，云物理学，大气化学，空间物理学、地球辐射收支、海洋观测和生物学。会议的目标是确定CubeSats的方法和最佳实践，以使跨学科科学目标沿着STEM教育和NSF所有相关研究领域的多样性目标。

The purpose of this award is to provide travel support for PIs and students on current NSF cubesat projects to participate in a meeting hosted at NSF on May 24, 2012. The purpose of the meeting is to showcase how the current projects promote innovative and creative STEM education and workforce development as well as front-line, interdisciplinary scientific research and technology advances. Presentations will also explore the potential for future cubesat projects to provide crucial measurements from space that are needed to solve critical societal problems including: climate change, land use and resource management, pollution and disaster monitoring, communication and space weather; and enable further scientific discoveries and engineering innovation, including: Manufacturing in space, materials research for 3D printing of satellites and components, sensor miniaturization, micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) systems, systems engineering, radio science, communication algorithms and networks, cloud physics, atmospheric chemistry, space physics, Earth radiation budget, ocean observations, and biology. The goal of the meeting is to identify ways and best practices for CubeSats to benefit interdisciplinary science goals along with STEM education and diversity objectives broadly within all relevant research areas of NSF.