Hands-On Education and students formation for aerospace systems engineering : looking back upon the SOPRANO experience
- Paper number
IAC-06-E1.P.1.03
- Author
Dr. Manola Romero, AAAF, France
- Coauthor
Mr. Yves Gourinat, France
- Coauthor
Mrs. Benedicte Escudier, France
- Year
2006
- Abstract
Paper title: "Hands-on education and students formation for aerospace systems engineering: looking back upon the SOPRANO experience" Abstract: One of our greatest goals in education is to prepare our students for the realities of the work they will have to cope with during their future long years of professional activity. In the field of aerospace one this reality is often acting in a complex project in which system aspect is an important part. Factors such as team communication, planning, risk assessment... are key points to meet success. They are understood with more efficiency through real performance, hands-on education, than only through lectures. Concerning students with no background in space project and a few months ahead to meet the achievement of their work, this "real performance" is a real challenge. That’s what the SOPRANO experiment was made for. The SOPRANO experience will be described, as well as the educative pattern adopted. It concerned the development, testing and flight under a CNES balloon of an experiment for earth-observation. It has been made by students of the two main schools of aerospace engineering in France, SUPAERO and ENSICA, located in Toulouse, and then more in rivalry terms than in cooperation terms as they are nowadays. The AAAF, a French association of professionals of the aerospace area, triggered the process and have made the financial management. Lessons learned will be exposed, especially analysing the experience on the following points: - Interest of balloons for hand-on space engineering initiation, - Adequacy of the action described with formation to space systems engineering, - Impact on some of the former students ten years after.
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