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REXUS/BEXUS

REXUS/BEXUS. TEXUS/BEXUS ALUMNI – LOOKING AT THE LONG-TERM PERSONAL BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION IN A PRACTICAL STUDENT PROGRAMME Mark Fittock (DLR)

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REXUS/BEXUS

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  1. REXUS/BEXUS TEXUS/BEXUS ALUMNI – LOOKING AT THE LONG-TERM PERSONAL BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION IN A PRACTICAL STUDENT PROGRAMME Mark Fittock (DLR) Martin Siegl (DLR), Andreas Stamminger (DLR), Maria Roth (DLR), Jutta Hübner (ESA), Helen Page (ESA), Adam Lambert (ESA), Mark Uitendaal (SSC), Olle Persson (SSC)

  2. REXUS/BEXUS In a nutshell • Student experiments • 2 rockets (Spring), 2 balloons (Autumn) • 1 or 1.5 years • Management, engineering, science • Expert support, training, financing

  3. The Scope of Students’ Work What the students have to survive • Selection Workshop • Training Week • Design Reviews • Build-up and Testing • Launch campaign • Analysis

  4. The Education Environment No pain, no gain • Augmented learning environment • Focus on open learning • Supported by traditional methods

  5. The Why and the How • Looking back means we can look forward • Evaluate our educational benefit and improve • Conducted a survey of previous students from the last 3 cycles • 84 responses to date

  6. Negative effects on study? • 61.8 % percent not part of any course module • Degree completion: • 51.3 % still studying • 48.7 % completed • 0 % don’t intend to complete • Delay in completion due to participation39.5 % Yes, 60.5 % No

  7. The Added Educational Value Learning for later study/career high med low

  8. The Practical and the Supplementary Skills major some none

  9. Was the Experience Relevant to their Future Activities? • Mean response: highly relevant • Corresponds to theresponses torelevance oflearning methods

  10. What about Space? Will the alumni join the space community? • Increased interest in pursuing a space-related career? • 76.7 % more likely • 37.0% of total much more • Was this interest followed up? • 63.6 % of the “employeds” in a space related field

  11. REXUS/BEXUS as a reference Who knows about this programme? • Online Presence • Measured as a return of relevant results: “rexus bexus” on google.de, percent relevant from 1st page • Returns 700,000 to 1,000,000 relevant results • Context: avg 93% of the relevant results for “dlr” • Very rough measure of online presence

  12. What did that all just mean? • Many of the effects are still unknown • Correlation may show further links between different aspects of the experience • Alumni have significant boosts in relevant skills for future study and career • We still have room for improvement

  13. Thanks for listening!Any questions? This investigation was carried out as a part of the REXUS/BEXUS programme. The REXUS/BEXUS programme is realised under a bilateral Agency Agreement between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB). The Swedish share of the payload has been made available to students from other European countries through a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). EuroLaunch, a cooperation between the Esrange Space Center of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and the Mobile Rocket Base (MORABA) of DLR, is responsible for the campaign management and operations of the launch vehicles. Experts from DLR, SSC and ESA provide technical support to the student teams throughout the project. ROCKETS & BALLOONSwww.rexusbexus.net

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