SpaceMaster student awarded the Bengt Hultqvist Prize 'Best space engineering student of 2007'
The Bengt Hultqvist Prize for 'Best space engineering student of 2007' has been awarded to SpaceMaster students Thomas Ott, from Germany, and Israel Alejandro Arriago Trejo, from Mexico.
The students received the prize on 14 September 2007 at the Department of Space Science of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in Kiruna, Sweden. The award was initiated in 1997 by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Professor Emeritus Bengt Hultqvist presented the prize. He was director of IRF from its start until 1994, and has played a leading role in the success of the space industry in Kiruna.
SpaceMaster programme
Both Thomas Ott and Isreal Alejandro Arriago Trejo graduated from the SpaceMaster programme, which is a two-year space science and technology Masters course open to students from all over the world. It is organized by a consortium of six top European universities, among which is LTU, and is sponsored by the EU Erasmus Mundus programme.
SpaceMaster leads to two officially recognized MSc degrees in space science and technology issued by both LTU and the student’s second year host university.
ESA contribution to SpaceMaster
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Directorate of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration supports the SpaceMaster programme by providing student grants, stages and lectures.
Thomas Ott was selected for an ESA grant in 2007 because of his excellent study results and interesting dissertation topic, which was 'a pre-phase A study of a spinning micro-satellite for Martian missions'.
Thomas Ott has recently started a one-year traineeship as a 'Young Graduate Trainee' at ESA ESTEC in the Netherlands. He is going to support the projects run at ESA's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF), while Israel Alejandro Arriago has been accepted as a doctoral student at the Embedded Internet System Laboratory (EISLAB) at LTU, to support the development of electromagnetic modeling alternatives for complex automotive sub-systems.
More information
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