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

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)

REXUS/BEXUS

ROCKETS & BALLOONS www.rexusbexus.net

REXUS/BEXUS

•Student experiments

•2 rockets (Spring), 2 balloons (Autumn)

•1 or 1.5 years

•Management, engineering, science

•Expert support, training, financing

In a nutshell


The Scope of Students’ Work

• Selection Workshop

• Training Week

• Design Reviews

• Build-up and Testing

• Launch campaign

• Analysis

What the students have to survive


The Education Environment

• Augmented learning environment

• Focus on open learning

• Supported by traditional methods

No pain, no gain


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


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


The Added Educational ValueLearning for later study/career

high

med

low


The Practical and the Supplementary Skills

some

major

none


Was the Experience Relevant to their Future Activities?

• Mean response: highly relevant

• Corresponds to theresponses torelevance oflearning methods


What about Space?

• 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

Will the alumni join the space community?


REXUS/BEXUS as a reference

• 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

Who knows about this programme?


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

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.


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