COMPETITION OBJECTIVES

RASC-AL was formed to provide university-level engineering students the opportunity to design projects based on NASA engineering challenges as well as offer NASA access to new research and design projects by students.

Forum objectives include:

1. Provide opportunities for universities, faculty, and students to interact with NASA by working on space exploration research and design problems relevant to ESMD;
2. Infuse concepts and data from RASC-AL into ESMD program planning;
3. Develop relationships between universities and NASA that could lead to additional opportunities for student participation in other NASA student research programs;
4. Demonstrate and leverage university-NASA and potential university-NASA-industry cooperation.