On the Road: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
WAITLIST OPEN: REGISTRATION CLOSING FRIDAY 10/18 at 12NOON
Location
Off Campus
Date & Time
October 25, 2024, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Description
INSTEAD OF BRINGING THE COMPANY TO CAMPUS, WE’RE TAKING YOU TO THE COMPANY!
Join us for this full day of access to the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center facility located in Greenbelt, MD. The agenda will include tours of engineering labs, the largest clean room in the world, and the Earth Sciences Center. We will experience the Science on the Sphere demonstration and have the opportunity to speak with engineers and leadership at the Center.
REGISTRATION CLOSES FRIDAY 10/18 at 12NOON
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, plays a pivotal role across all aspects of the agency’s missions, from development to de-orbit.
More than 50 Goddard spacecraft explore Earth and soar through the solar system, collecting observations to be parsed and studied by scientists around the world. Goddard’s missions support multiple scientific disciplines, including Earth science, solar science, and the Sun-Earth environment, planetary studies and astrophysics.
Goddard is the operational home of the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Goddard studies the tenuous atmosphere of Mars with MAVEN and the Red Planet’s surface with instruments aboard the Curiosity rover. Goddard surveys the moon with LRO and watches our sun with the Solar Dynamics Observatory. GPM, Landsat and a host of other satellites monitor Earth and our changing climate.
Please dress professionally (business casual is acceptable).
US Citizenship is required for this event.
Agenda:
8:30am: Bus departs UMBC
8:30am: Bus departs UMBC
9:00am: Arrive and Welcome - NASA
9:30am-11:00am: Presentations
B19 anechoic chamber & Justin Long [electrical engineering]
B23 Vicky Wu [software engineering]
11:00 Integration & Testing Tour [mechanical engineering]
12:00 Lunch Break – (Available on-site for purchase)
12:45 Gift shop and Visitors Center
2:30 Depart NASA
Transportation is provided by the UMBC Career Center. Space is limited. RSVP is required. Please register via Handshake, events tab.
If you do not attend and have not canceled your reservation 1 week prior to the event date, your student account will be charged $25 to cover expenses incurred by the Career Center.
*If you require special accommodations for this event due to a disability, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make the proper arrangements. Please email careers@umbc.edu with your specific request - be sure to include title, date, and time of the event.