Senior Design Scalability

INSTITUTION

Michigan State University

CLASS

Cobalt Class (2019 – 2020)

STUDENT TEAM

William Richmond, Applied Engineering Sciences with Supply Chain Concentre
Joey Money, Applied Engineering Sciences with Supply Chain Concentre
Gabe Zeidner, Applied Engineering Sciences with Supply Chain Concentre
Micala Tafelski, Applied Engineering Sciences with Supply Chain Concentre

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In leading NASA’s Psyche mission, ASU creates opportunities for undergraduates nationwide to get involved through capstone projects (https://psyche.asu.edu/get-involved/capstone-projects/). These are often interdisciplinary or even inter-university, allowing students from different regions, universities, and majors to work together, reflecting the diversity of real-world space mission teams. This also results in increased complexity in administering the program, a barrier to scalability. A team is helping develop innovations and improvements to the processes of this program and provide a scalable model for future capstone sponsorship efforts.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of Michigan State University Capstone Courses “AESC 410”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.asu.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.