Preparing Students to Work in Diverse Settings and Across Distance: Inter-University, Interdisciplinary Capstone TeamsNASA's Psyche Mission is engaged with a growing number of capstone teams pursuing topics relevant to the mission, including partnering with four universities to trial cross-university teaming. Creating interdisciplinary capstone teams with students from different universities provides an opportunity to prepare students to engage with a diversity of disciplines and collaborate in remote teams in the workplace. Additionally, through such capstones, universities may gain access to non-local, specialized technical mentors and to disciplines not offered at their institutions. An added benefit is providing greater fidelity to NASA space missions, which involve teams working together at a distance. We discuss early lessons learned from the first three inter-university, interdisciplinary capstone teams participating with the Psyche mission and discuss plans for improvement and future expansion.
Document ID
20190029069
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Poster
Authors
Bowman, C. D. D. (Arizona State Univ. (ASU) Tempe, AZ, United States)
Elkins-Tanton, L. T. (Arizona State Univ. (ASU) Tempe, AZ, United States)
Briggs, D. (Arizona State Univ. (ASU) Tempe, AZ, United States)
Frieman, J. D. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Gallagher, M. T. (Cleveland State Univ. Cleveland, OH, United States)
Garvie, L. A. J. (Arizona State Univ. (ASU) Tempe, AZ, United States)
McCarville, D. (Arizona State Univ. (ASU) Tempe, AZ, United States)
McConomy, S. (Florida State Univ. Gainesville, FL, United States)
McCoy, T. (National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC, United States)
Triplett, G. E. (Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Richmond, VA, United States)
Ward, B. C. (Virginia Commonwealth Univ. Richmond, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2019
Publication Date
June 27, 2019
Subject Category
Social And Information Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
GRC-E-DAA-TN70425
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2019 Undergraduate Research Programs Conference