Cooperative Experience Employment Education (Co-Op) Program

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Cooperative Experience Employment Education
(Co-Op) Program Earn While You Learn Naval Air
Warfare Center Aircraft Division Patuxent River,
Maryland February 10, 2009 Paul Hoffman PhD,
P.E. Director Education Research Partnerships

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• Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division
  (NAWCAD)
• Cooperative Education Program Earn While You
  Learn
• Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Focus
• NAWCAD Overview Paul Hoffman PhD, P.E.
• Co-Op Program Kathy Glockner
• Student Benefits
• Application Process
• Retention

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• Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division NAWCAD
• Career Opportunities
• Aerospace (Aeronautical) and Mechanical
  Engineering (Federal employee, not military)
• Education (junior senior years) paid
• Tuition up to 4500/semester
• Textbooks up to 400/semester
• Degree from a top-tiered Engineering School
  (UMCP)
• Guaranteed employment upon graduation
• World Class TE Facility
• Employment during summer and semester breaks
• Real time exposure to engineering
• Upon Co-Op completion two years experience

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NAWCAD Quicklook

• PEOPLE
• 22,200 workforce
• St. Marys largest employer
• 4,500 dependents supported
• 4,500 retired military supported
• 300,000 visitors annually

GEOGRAPHY 14,502 acres 78.6 miles of roads
18.7 miles of shoreline 65 miles south of
Wash DC 90 miles north of Norfolk
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NAVAIR
Lines of Business
SUSTAINMENT
SYSTEMS ACQUISITION
RQMTS/ RISKSFROM FLEET / OPNAV
RD
OPERATIONS SUPPORT
PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION
CONCEPT TECH. DEVMT
HEADQUARTERS / PEOs
WARFARE CENTERS / DEPOTS
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Air Combat Environment Test and Evaluation
Facility




Propulsion Systems Evaluation Facility
Manned Flight Simulator
Shielded Hangar
Large Anechoic Chamber
Electronic Warfare Integration System Test Lab
ACETEF, the Navys fully integrated RDTE
Installed Systems Test facility, provides full
spectrum evaluation of highly integrated aircraft
and aircraft systems in a secure controlled
engineering environment


Warfare Simulation Lab




Communication, Navigation, IFF Lab
High Performance Computing
Threat Air Defense Lab
Operations Control Center
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EA-18G Development

• Networked systems within ACETEF provided dynamic,
  repeatable, realistic, hardware-in-the-loop
  simulations for EA-18G AEA systems testing
• Systems provided scenario control, emitter
  stimulation, and aircraft navigation inputs for
  design reference scenario
• Full Link 16 network
• Future testing (July 07) to incorporate satellite
  broadcasts and communications threat simulators
  into integrated scenario

• Combined capabilities allowed both subsystem
  performance testing and a robust crew-vehicle
  interface evaluation in a realistic environment
• HWIL provided system performance variables
  missing in standalone flight simulators
• Provided a more distributed and robust threat
  environment than available on open-air ranges
  (and at a fraction of the cost)
• Repeatability of simulation allowed isolation of
  variables affecting mission accomplishment
• Used both for discovering problems pre-flight and
  for characterizing problems post-flight
• End result Allowed effective and efficient
  characterization of complex system issues early
  in the development cycle

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Limited Snapshot of AE ME Activities
Full-Scale Fatigue Test
Wind Tunnel Test
Instrumented Flight Test
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NAWCAD
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