Proposed Organizational Structure, Fees, and Growth Plan

1. Proposed Organizational Structure, Fees, and Growth Plan

3. NSF’s Role in the Center An I/UCRC operates as a “franchise” business • Holds university overhead to 10% • $55k / year per university • SBIR Opportunities for small • companies to join I/UCRC • Governance policies and • legal agreements • Intellectual property • Annual reporting – Director’s • Report • Hires external evaluator each • year – Evaluator’s Report • Helps transition I/UCRC to • other funding vehicle UM MTU

4. Our strategy – get over the bar NSF Minimum Requirements • 6 Members (3 per University) • $300,000 Member funding NSF Award • $55k / year for each university • + $10k / year to lead university • $15k / year to hire evaluator • 5 year award “Shoot low boys – they’re ridin’ Shetland ponies.” -- Lewis Grizzard Our Plan • EP core faculty • Chem propulsion collaborators • Expand in follow-on years

5. Growth strategy • Universities can join Center if they bring 3 Members • Universities who “join” center get NSF funding • Faculty from U’s who have not “joined” can get Center funds • Unlimited number of Collaborating Faculty can participate • Collaborating U’s must adhere to Center IP policies, etc.

6. EP Core with Chemical Collaborators

7. Work with Purdue and CSULB to add Chemical Members

8. Expand Scope? Other Universities

9. Proposed Structure Funding and Dues • Associate Member – ½ vote on IAB: $20,000 / year • Member – 1 vote on IAB: $40,000 / year • Executive Member – 2 votes on IAB: $70,000 / year Need 8 Members to form $455k / year minimum pool Meeting • Annual meeting at JPC, IEPC, or JANNAF • One annual on-campus meeting

10. Assumes 12 Members steady-state @ $40k / Member • $7.5k / grad student / year supplies budget • Sustainable funding: 7 graduate students w / 6 faculty • More collaboration can focus this by reducing faculty time

11. Comparison of funding without IUCRC

12. Excerpt from Sample Membership Form COMPANY agrees to contribute $40,000 annually in support of the CENTER and thereby becomes a sponsor. Payment of these membership fees shall be made to Michigan Tech University as a lump sum effective __________________; or in four equal quarterly installments on __________, _________, _________ and __________ of each year of sponsorship. Checks from COMPANY should be mailed to _________________________________________________ and made payable to ________________________. Because research of the type to be done by the CENTER takes time and research results may not be obvious immediately, COMPANY should join CENTER with the intention of remaining a fee paying member for at least two years. However, COMPANY may terminate this Agreement by giving UNIVERSITY 90 days written notice prior to the termination date.

13. Feedback from Hartford – areas of interest • Plasma/surface interactions (erosion, secondary e- yield, charging) • Diagnostics – non-intrusive • Studies of PPU inefficiencies • Investigation of high thrust-to-power limitations • High efficiency power processing for space applications • Thruster integration effects – thermal management, recovery • “Out of the box” propulsion physics – new theories, concepts, and chemistry • Pursuit of “one size fits all” thruster – variable Isp, thrust • Anything that reduces the cost of EP systems • Electron mobility in Hall thrusters – especially at high T/P • Heat deposition – thermal management in Hall thrusters • Study of cathode contamination effects and cleanliness thresholds – what are the “real” handling requirements? • Model-based qualification programs – reducing ground-test costs

14. Feedback from Hartford – areas of interest • Micropropulsion research – important as budgets shrink and for ORS • Space trajectory optimization for minimum fuel consumption • Passive thermal control strategies • Liquid propellant management