SpaceTech – Space Systems and Business Engineering

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 11:00 – 11:30
Location: Adelaide Convention Center – Hall C

The space sector is a fast-growing segment. It features most recent research activities and offers the possibility to transfer newly developed technologies in practical use cases. Space industries have, over the years, tended to become multinational in nature. Thus, a demand identified by both industry and agencies was the need to provide training to their prospective future systems engineers and programme managers to prepare them to work in or direct international teams. Industry in particular must have staff that is both highly qualified technically and which understand and can implement the modern business practices that are necessary to run a profitable business in today’s competitive environment. The Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) offers a master‘s programme, called SpaceTech. It is a successor, with an expanded and improved curriculum, to the SpaceTech programme that was offered for thirteen years by the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The programme is hosted by TU Graz under the leadership of the Life Long Learning Department and targets postgraduates with at least 5 years of professional experience. It contains the topics Project Management, Business Engineering, Systems Engineering, Space Mission Analysis and Design, Earth Observation, Navigation, Telecommunications, Interpersonal Skills and Leadership Development, Human Spaceflight, Selected Topics on Space Systems Engineering. Core of the Program is the Central Case Project (CCP). The first round of SpaceTech has been successfully completed, the next course will start in March 2018. The CCP was supported by ESA and is related to “Moon Village”. The participants elaborated an innovative concept of cooperating moon rovers. The SpaceTech Directors Otto Koudelka and Ed Ashford present this unique programme.