Join us for this year's Concurrent Engineering Workshop!

We are excited to announce that, in collaboration with ESA Academy, TU Darmstadt is co-hosting a special edition of the Concurrent Engineering Workshop from 18 to 22 September 2023. This is a unique opportunity for university students to delve into the early conceptual design phase of a space mission. Concurrent engineering is a method used to develop early conceptual designs. Contrary to traditional methods, all subsystems are designed simultaneously, which is enabled by specially tailored infrastructure and software. Although concurrent engineering is a more complicated process to establish, it allows mistakes to be identified – and rectified – earlier, therefore reducing the overall design time. 

Situated at the Institute for Flight Systems and Automatic control, TU Darmstadt’s Concurrent Engineering Lab (CEL) is a joint venture with ESA and focuses on innovative concepts in shared and distributed, autonomous, and hybrid systems in the ground segment and operations. During the workshop, you will conceptualize the ground segment and operations side of an exciting mission, while students at ESA's Training and Learning Facility in Redu, Belgium, will work on the space segment.

Under the guidance of ESA’s and TU Darmstadt’s systems engineers, you will learn about the concurrent engineering process, gain hands-on experience with the Concurrent Model-based Engineering Tool (COMET), and identify design drivers for a complex development project.

Additionally, a trip to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) during the week will give you a glimpse into the place where Europe’s space missions come alive.

We invite all interested students with an engineering, industrial engineering or physics background (Master or PhD Level) to be part of this enriching experience. Selected participants will be divided into groups covering the following disciplines:

• Optics
• Data Processing
• Mission Analysis
• Operations
• User Product and Services

Within their groups, students will create a subsystem concept in order to achieve their given mission and will have to budget their project. They will do several iterations of all the subsystems, review and present their ongoing work.

The week before the workshop, the selected students will receive some material and will follow a two-hour COMET tutorial to familiarize them with the tool.

How to apply:

• Fill in the application form
• Select preferred disciplines
• Upload a motivation letter (PDF, max. 1 page, no images)
• Upload a CV (PDF, max. 2 pages, no images)
• Upload a copy of academic records (PDF)

All answers and documents should be in English (except academic records if not available).  

For any queries, please contact us at Marlon Deutsch or Jennifer Hoffmann.

The deadline for applications is 31 July 2023, 23:59 CET.