Schubert, P. J. (2016, June), Mentored, Unpaid Design Team Internship Experience  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25710

\bibitem{asee_peer_25710}
  Schubert, P. J. (2016, June), \emph{Mentored, Unpaid Design Team Internship Experience}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.25710

Peter J. Schubert.  "Mentored, Unpaid Design Team Internship Experience".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://strategy.asee.org/25710 Internet.  19 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_25710}
  Peter J. Schubert.
  "Mentored, Unpaid Design Team Internship Experience".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://strategy.asee.org/25710 Internet.  19 Jul, 2024

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AB  - An international team of 7 undergraduate interns working pro bono during the summer made significant advances in several areas of Space Solar Power.  Distinct from a capstone design effort, this study group revived the practice common in the 1970s and 1980s of considering broad topics of high relevance to public citizens and elected decision-makers.  Significant obstacles to success included lack of research experience, lack of motivating paycheck, and a highly-complex system under study.  Each student was assigned a mentor from the aerospace industry or academia to guide the creation of a research plan, and to periodically review progress.  Team-building exercises were conducted to develop relationships, and weekly team workshops were held to teach interoperability with other subsystems.  Student experiences shifted from excitement at the outset to a sense of being overwhelmed with the magnitude and difficulties associated with a space-based project running in the tens of billions of dollars.  Yet, each student was able to overcome such mid-term concerns, and to make a meaningful contribution to a key research question.  Their results were published at a national space conference with all students listed as co-authors.  The present work assesses the formation of such an unpaid team and the management thereof, analyzes the techniques used to encourage desired outcomes, and finishes with post-project follow-up on perceptions and career choices.  This approach may find interest among professors with limited funds who seek to develop solid preliminary data to make grant applications more competitive.
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