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Small Satellite Enabled Human Capital Development Approaches for a Space Professional Cadre
Get PDFThe rapid growth of the commercial and government space sectors has highlighted a critical shortfall in qualified talent. Addressing these gaps requires innovative educational programs that can efficiently develop human capital without extensive resources or extended classroom requirements. This paper will explore these challenges and present solutions through a focus on Small Satellite (SmallSat) resources and lessons learned from previous attempts, as well as highlighting a number of emerging programs that are quickly helping to address this growing concern.
One promising approach is the Space Force Cadet Corps Cadet Training in Space, Cyber, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. This program exposes cadets to potential careers in government, military, and civilian sectors, emphasizing leadership and aerospace education. The initial “Space” focus is on training cadets in Space Missions and Operations, Small Satellite Design and Development, Astrodynamics/Space Environment, Space Law/Policy, and Space Cybersecurity/Network defense. By providing hands-on experience and expert guest speakers, cadets gain valuable insights preparing the next generation of space enthusiasts. Utilizing small satellites as the technology baseline allows SFCC cadets to gain experience quickly and at low cost, parallel to the arguments made for small satellite development in Fleeter’s seminal text, “Logic of Microspace”.
Another innovative program is the Space Operations Certification Program offered by Lake Superior State University. This certification program equips students with a well-rounded suite of skills, including a fundamental understanding of the space environment, orbital dynamics, and pragmatic skills involved in space system operations. The program emphasizes real-world experience through experiential learning at the Homestead Mission Operations Center (HMOC), leading to opportunities for co-op and internship positions with leading employers in the space industry. Here, small satellites were utilized as test articles for the students to demonstrate satellite operations proficiency, from digital twins of well known small satellite demonstration missions, to conducting live satellite tracking and communications sessions with on-orbit small satellites designed for open source interactions.
These programs demonstrate that effective human capital development for space professionals can be achieved through targeted educational initiatives that cost-effectively leverage SmallSat resources and provide targeted, practical, hands-on learning experiences necessary for growing the Space cadre. By highlighting these programs and sharing lessons learned, the authors aim to inspire and guide future efforts in addressing the talent shortfall in the space sector
Small Satellite Enabled Human Capital Development Approaches for a Space Professional Cadre
No full textThe rapid growth of the commercial and government space sectors has highlighted a critical shortfall in qualified talent. Addressing these gaps requires innovative educational programs that can efficiently develop human capital without extensive resources or extended classroom requirements. This paper will explore these challenges and present solutions through a focus on Small Satellite (SmallSat) resources and lessons learned from previous attempts, as well as highlighting a number of emerging programs that are quickly helping to address this growing concern.
One promising approach is the Space Force Cadet Corps Cadet Training in Space, Cyber, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. This program exposes cadets to potential careers in government, military, and civilian sectors, emphasizing leadership and aerospace education. The initial “Space” focus is on training cadets in Space Missions and Operations, Small Satellite Design and Development, Astrodynamics/Space Environment, Space Law/Policy, and Space Cybersecurity/Network defense. By providing hands-on experience and expert guest speakers, cadets gain valuable insights preparing the next generation of space enthusiasts. Utilizing small satellites as the technology baseline allows SFCC cadets to gain experience quickly and at low cost, parallel to the arguments made for small satellite development in Fleeter’s seminal text, “Logic of Microspace”.
Another innovative program is the Space Operations Certification Program offered by Lake Superior State University. This certification program equips students with a well-rounded suite of skills, including a fundamental understanding of the space environment, orbital dynamics, and pragmatic skills involved in space system operations. The program emphasizes real-world experience through experiential learning at the Homestead Mission Operations Center (HMOC), leading to opportunities for co-op and internship positions with leading employers in the space industry. Here, small satellites were utilized as test articles for the students to demonstrate satellite operations proficiency, from digital twins of well known small satellite demonstration missions, to conducting live satellite tracking and communications sessions with on-orbit small satellites designed for open source interactions.
These programs demonstrate that effective human capital development for space professionals can be achieved through targeted educational initiatives that cost-effectively leverage SmallSat resources and provide targeted, practical, hands-on learning experiences necessary for growing the Space cadre. By highlighting these programs and sharing lessons learned, the authors aim to inspire and guide future efforts in addressing the talent shortfall in the space sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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