This position may have additional semesters if the allocation of further funding is available. Most positions involve 40 hrs/week during the summer and 10-20 hrs/week when classes occur. The guaranteed semesters for this position are:
CLASS is a NASA Solar System Exploration Virtual Institute led by the University of Central Florida. CLASS stands for Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science and isa consortium of universities and commercial partners researching rocky and atmosphereless bodies. MTU is a node in CLASS and our focus is on ISRU on the lunar surface with a focus on developing and characterizing our own MTU lunar regolith simulant - currently being used on multiple contracts. Near term goals are to study wear of systems due to exposure with lunar simulant as well as to support simulant prep for other experiments such as the LuSTR and MRE research.