Table of Contents

1.Introduction.- 2.Why start a small spacecraft program?.- 3.To build, to buy, or in between?.- 4.Starting a small spacecraft program: types of programs and their benefits and drawbacks.- 5.Forming a program - funding and organizational issues.- 6.Forming a program: funding and organizational issues.- 7.Forming a program: technical and logistical issues.- 8.Setting educational goals and formative assessment.- 9.Summative assessment.- 10.Results of prior assessment work and its utility.

About the Author

Jeremy Straub is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the North Dakota State University. Ronald Arthur Marsh is an associate professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at University of North Dakota. David J. Whalen has recently retired from being an associate professor at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences in the Space Studies Department at the University of North Dakota.