2025 Advanced Space Propulsion

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

(JANUS Project)

The Illinois Space Grant Consortium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces its JANUS (Joint AdvaNced PropUlsion InStitute) Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). The ten-week research program focuses on advanced space propulsion systems.


Applicants must attend Chicago State University OR City Colleges of Chicago.


Room and board are provided and included. Students will also interact with other summer research students through the local Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programs and the local Illinois Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).


Student Activities


In this project, students will design and build a translating arm to integrate a RGA into the facility environment. The students will use their design during thruster operation to offer temporal resolution on the flux of isotopically labeled carbon. By measuring the flux of labeled species at different locations within the vacuum chamber, a map of labeled carbon transport can be created, which students will use to estimate deposition rates of labeled material to thruster surfaces.


Student Background


We are looking for students who are interested in electric propulsion, diagnostics for plasmas, and/or building systems for measurement and data acquisition. Some background in electrical engineering or material science is preferred. Experience with Matlab or python and Labview is helpful. We anticipate hiring 1-2 students for summer 2023.


Read the full description here.


Requirements:


  • U.S. Citizen
  • Full-time student majoring in a STEM area, including but not limited to engineering, computer science, the biological and life sciences, chemistry, geological sciences, physics, and astronomy. We are specifically interested in students whose academic major and career aspirations are relevant to NASA.
  • Must be a full-time undergraduate in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.
  • Good academic standing
  • Completed online application
  • Must be enrolled at one of the Illinois Space Grant affiliates:
  • Chicago State University
  • City Colleges of Chicago


Women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, and U.S. military veterans are encouraged to apply.

You must register on NASA 's STEM Gateway. We recommend using a personal email address because some school emails change or expire.


Here is the link - https://stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/


You will find additional instructions HERE


Please provide the email that you used to register with NASA STEM Gateway.




This will be verified before awards are made. If you do not set up a NASA STEM Gateway account, you will be ineligible for Illinois Space Grant funding.

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