Mission Concept Academy

NASA Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competence Enabler (LSPACE) Academy

May 2023 - September 2023

Lead Systems Engineer, Student Team Setting

Unpaid learning experience and Student Workforce Development Program that allowed me to learn from NASA engineers weekly and increase my knowledge about NASA missions.

As Lead Systems Engineer, in a student team setting, I led an engineering sub-team for our team of 14 interdisciplinary students in the development of 5 deliverables and a final presentation of our rover’s mission concept design.

Devoted 6-10 hours of professional research and writing per week for our given mission to Ceres to collect ice-water specimens and obey given requirements.

Documentation completed over the course of the academy:

  • Concept of Operations

  • Mission Requirements Spreadsheet

  • Risk Matrix

  • Failure Mode Effective Analysis

  • Heat Flow Map

  • Payload Integration and Science Instrumentation

  • Science Traceability Matrix

  • Programmatics

  • Cost and Budgeting Gantt chart

  • Payload N^2 Chart

  • Geological Map and Slope Graph of the chosen crater Landing Zone

  • Outreach Plans

  • Redundancy

  • Manufacturing and Procurement Plans

  • Verification and Validation

  • Confidence and Maturity

  • Testing and Calibration Measurements

  • Precision and Accuracy

  • Activity Plans

Certified in Siemens NX Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and completed various skills badges in teaming, requirements, project management, systems topics, risk management, and heat transfer.

Collaborated to overcome remote communication environments on Discord and Zoom, and completed the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) in Abaqus CAE, statics calculations, material density calculations, power and thermal system calculations, Technology Readiness Level, and other various calculations.

Overall helped my team work together, stay organized on assigned tasks by using Excel, and succeed in certain engineering discipline tasks throughout the academy.

Lanie May Pritchard

Contact

Moraga, CA | Santa Clara, CA

Lanie.pritchard12@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/lanie-pritchard