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Publication Date - 12/3/1999

68. NASA/ASEE - Summer Faculty Fellowship in Aeronautics and Space Research

Since 1964, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has supported a program of summer faculty fellowships for full-time engineering and science educators at U.S colleges and universities. In a series of collaborations between NASA research and development centers and nearby universities, engineering and science faculty members spend ten weeks working with professional peers on research. Through the summer of 1998, over 7,500 faculty members have participated in these programs.

The Summer Faculty Programs Committee of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) supervises the programs, which are operated by co-directors from the NASA centers and their collaborating universities. ASEE headquarters provides coordination between the several institutions and NASA, as well as promotional and publication services.

Research Fellowships are awarded to qualified engineering and science faculty members and some non-science disciplines for specific projects, for summer research in a NASA-university cooperative program. Fellows will conduct projects of mutual interest to the fellow and NASA center. Each fellow will work with a center colleague and will be associated directly with the aeronautics and space program and the concomitant basic research problems. Special courses, seminars, workshops, lectures and the like are included in each cooperative program. Fellows may be invited to reapply for a second summer. The duration of the fellowships is ten continuous weeks, and fellows are required to conduct their research on-site.

Fellowship stipends are $1,000 per week. A travel allowance will be paid. In addition, a relocation allowance will be provided for those fellows who must relocate their residence. Approximately 150 first-year fellowships will be awarded. The application deadline is FEBRUARY 1, 2000.