MISSION STATEMENT
SEE champions, challenges, and creates collaborative college-level modeling and simulations with applications related to space missions.
WHAT IS SEE
The Simulation Exploration Experience (SEE) joins students, industry, professional associations, and faculty in collaborative college-level modeling and simulation learning. Each local (university) team designs, develops, tests, and executes its chosen component(s) of simulated space missions. Teams use open standards for modeling and simulation (M&S), which allow all teams’ distributed components to work together seamlessly to form and execute the larger-scale simulated space mission. Teams are geographically dispersed and interact remotely with other teams. All simulation components interact over the Internet using open modeling and simulation industry standards for systems interoperability.
SEE is a distributed simulation challenge that engages university students in modeling and simulation education. At the undergraduate level, modeling and simulation education is rare. SEE provides an avenue for students interested in M&S to explore a fast-growing field. Students gain valuable knowledge, skills, and increased employability by working closely with space and simulation industry professionals, NASA personnel, and faculty advisors.
WHO CREATED AND CONTRIBUTES TO SEE?
NASA engineer Zack Crues identified and publicly described a vision for a simulation-based, space-focused, STEM program for university students. Subsequently, SEE was initiated by NASA and the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). Outside of their time at their regular jobs at NASA and other government agencies, simulation industry companies, and space-focused universities, volunteers (simulation experts) provide SEE with technical expertise, software, and mentoring.
Industry Members: ForwardSim, VTMAK, AEgis, MBDA, Pitch, VSEE
Professional Associations: SISO, Liophant, SCS, GICSR
Government: NASA
HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?
Participating in SEE is easy and rewarding. If you are a college student or professor interested in starting a SEE team, visit our Start A Team page.
