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2024 Summer Internships
The CCU Space Program is excited to announce its 2024 Summer Internships!
The CCU Space Program is excited to announce its 2024 Summer Internships. We seek four exceptional students to fill founding positions in the leadership of the Space Program’s inaugural mission, ChantSat-1. Applicants for all openings below will be considered on a competitive basis. The Space Program will select 4 winners and 4 alternates. Winners and alternates will be hired as student research assistants for about 4 weeks this Spring 2024, with the option to defer or extend that employment through summer. Then, the 4 winners or their alternates (should a winner be sick or otherwise unable to travel) will travel to the Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat 2024) in Logan, UT. Complete details of the Spring and Summer itinerary are in the table below. The 4 winners will be paid $14/hour for up to 20 hours per week based on mutual agreement. Positions will be reviewed on or before August 16, but some may continue into Fall 2024, depending on individual circumstances. Alternates will have the chance to initiate student research work and/or unpaid internships on-campus, in other positions in the Space Program this Spring and Summer.
The immersive training the CCU student will receive should aid in equipping them to take on the challenges they will encounter during the developmental/build/integrate/test phases of the inaugural ChantSat-1 CubeSat Project.
Student Applications for the Summer are now being taken for the 4 Primary and 4 Alternate positions.
A schedule with the timeline of events is included below:
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Dates |
Itinerary |
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Mar. 14 – Apr. 1 |
Accepting student applications, applications close on Apr. 1 midnight (11:59pm) |
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Apr. 1 – Apr. 3 |
Selection committees meet, review, determine 4 awardees and 4 alternates for each opening |
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Apr. 4/5 |
Announcement and Notification of Winners and Alternates by email |
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Apr. 5 |
Begin student hiring/on-boarding process |
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Apr. 8 – May. 10 |
Work with CCU Space Program Faculty, attend briefings and training, to be on-boarded with the Program and ChantSat-1 mission |
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May 11 – Aug. 16 |
Work with CCU Space Program Faculty, attend briefings and training as available |
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July 22 – Aug. 1 |
Rest and prepare for travel to SmallSat Conference, Logan, UT |
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Aug. 2 |
Travel to Logan, UT |
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Aug. 3 – Aug. 8 |
Attend the Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat 2024) in Logan, UT |
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Aug. 8 & Aug. 9 |
Return travel home, |
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Aug. 12 – Aug. 16 |
Debriefing Event, program complete |
ChantSat-1 Applications and Job Descriptions
Job description: Most complex projects have in common important constraints: time, budget, and scope. The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seek a student Project Manager (PM) to contribute to overall coordination and leadership of the ChantSat-1 mission. You will work closely with the Faculty PM, Lead Systems Engineer, and student Chief Engineer and student Mission Specialists, to ensure delivery of a ChantSat-1 design that achieves all requirements, minimizes risks, and meets budget and schedule constraints. The PM, along with the CE below, will help drive the ChantSat-1 Project towards capturing and refining the necessary requirements that determine the scope of the overall Project. Applicants from all the majors listed below are eligible to compete for the PM position.
Job description: Satellites are space “systems”, assemblies of interfaced, mutually interacting subsystems, such as payload, electric power systems, communication & data handling systems, and more, which must be concurrently designed (that is, designed at the same time, rather than sequentially one after the other). The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seeks a student Chief Engineer (CE) to contribute to systems engineering leadership of the Chantat-1 mission. You will work closely with the Faculty, Lead Systems Engineer, student Subsystem Engineers, and student Mission Specialists, to ensure Project requirements are identified, captured, assigned, and eventually tested on all subsystems and Project interfaces in order to help assure overall mission success. Applicants for the CE position must be majors in Applied Physics or Engineering Science programs.
Job description: ChantSat-1 will feature two payloads: (1) a visible-to-near-infrared multispectral camera, which will enable diverse investigations in water resources management, environmental engineering, geospatial intelligence collection, and coastal oceanography, and (2) an innovative “selfie system,” complete with a billboard that features a programmable display. This will allow users on the ground to show custom images and text on the exterior of the satellite and photograph it, all against the grandeur of the low-earth orbit environment as the backdrop. The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seek student Mission Specialists (MS’s x2) who will contribute to the development of end-use cases (how the imagery and photographs are used in data, scientific, and geospatial analysis, artistic expressions, and more!) and contribute to the identification, collection, and assignment of subsystem requirements, based upon the needs (size, weight, power, pointing, configuration, etc.) of their respective subsystem. Applicants from all the majors listed below are eligible to compete for an MS position.
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Job description: Most complex projects have in common important constraints: time, budget, and scope. The CCU Space Program and ChantSat-1 mission seek a student Project Manager (PM) to contribute to overall coordination and leadership of the ChantSat-1 mission. You will work closely with the Faculty PM, Lead Systems Engineer, and student Chief Engineer and student Mission Specialists, to ensure delivery of a ChantSat-1 design that achieves all requirements, minimizes risks, and meets budget and schedule constraints. The PM, along with the CE below, will help drive the ChantSat-1 Project towards capturing and refining the necessary requirements that determine the scope of the overall Project. Applicants from all the majors listed below are eligible to compete for the PM position.