Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1991 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1991 4:00 PM
Description
The Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) is a voluntary association of Florida universities working in cooperation with affiliated public agencies and private industry to foster an ensemble of interrelated space-related educational and research programs. It is part of a national network of such consortia created in September 1989 by the NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Consortium Program. In the ensuing sections the development of the NASA program and FSGC are described.
Henry Rosovsky, long-time Dean of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, in his recent book, The University: An Owner's Manual1 y presents a particularly articulate defense of the role of research and its compatibility with teaching in a university of distinction. This paper, written for presentation at the 28th Space Congress session on Space Education, will explore the manner in which space-related research and education programs can and should be inextricably intertwined to their mutual benefit. In particular, programs sponsored by Florida's universities under the rubric of the FSGC are highlighted.
Just as we define education broadly, so too is "space" defined in an inclusive sense. For the purpose of this paper, the term "space" shall include diverse fields of aeronautics and astronautics, remote-sensing, atmospheric sciences, and other fundamental physical and social sciences and technologies, relying on and/or directly impacting space technological resources.
Paper Session III-A - The Florida Space Grant Consortium
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
The Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) is a voluntary association of Florida universities working in cooperation with affiliated public agencies and private industry to foster an ensemble of interrelated space-related educational and research programs. It is part of a national network of such consortia created in September 1989 by the NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship Consortium Program. In the ensuing sections the development of the NASA program and FSGC are described.
Henry Rosovsky, long-time Dean of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, in his recent book, The University: An Owner's Manual1 y presents a particularly articulate defense of the role of research and its compatibility with teaching in a university of distinction. This paper, written for presentation at the 28th Space Congress session on Space Education, will explore the manner in which space-related research and education programs can and should be inextricably intertwined to their mutual benefit. In particular, programs sponsored by Florida's universities under the rubric of the FSGC are highlighted.
Just as we define education broadly, so too is "space" defined in an inclusive sense. For the purpose of this paper, the term "space" shall include diverse fields of aeronautics and astronautics, remote-sensing, atmospheric sciences, and other fundamental physical and social sciences and technologies, relying on and/or directly impacting space technological resources.
Comments
Space Education
Session Chairman: Barbara Morgan, NASA’s “Teacher in Space” Designee, NASA, Education Affairs Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Session Organizer: Gerard Ventre, Acting Director, Space Education and Research Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL