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Centre For Space Science And Technology Education In Asia And The Pacific (CSSTE-AP)- A Regional Initiative
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4. Functioning Of The Organisation
The principal policy making organ of the centre is the Governing Board (GB) that has 14 representatives from each participating country besides the UN-OOSA. The responsibilities of GB is to approximate its long range plans, annual programmes and budgets submitted. The executive functions are exercised by the Director of the centre. Also an Advisory Committee (AC), under the Governing Board, is composed of prominent individuals, government, private industry and the academic and scientific communities. The function of AC is to provide guidance to the centre on its technical programmes. At present there are 13 members in the AC. The centre is affiliated to the United Nations.
5. Education Programme
All the educational programmes are conducted in English requiring the participants to have proficiency in the language. The candidates aspiring to have admission must have a Master's degree in Science or Bachelor's degree in Engineering in relevant discipline. The courses are taught with the use of modern teaching methods like multimedia and the participants are taken around various national facilities on study tour.
Educational Programme Institutional Facility
Post Graduate progamme in RS & GIS (1st phase of 9 months at the centre by 2nd phase of 1 year in the home country) Course starts in October every year. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun.
Post Graduate programme in Satellite Communication (1st phase of 9 months at the centre followed by 2nd phase of 1 year in the home country)Course starts in July every alternate year Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad
Post Graduate programme in Satellite Methodology & Global climate (1st phase of 9 months at the centre followed by 2nd phase of 1 year in the home country)Course starts in July every alternate year Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad
Post Graduate programme in Space & Atmospheric Sciences (1st phase of 9 months at the centre followed by 2nd phase of 1 year in the home country)Course starts in July every alternate year Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Short term workshops and awareness programmes in the above disciplines Above institutions
In all the above PG programmes, completion of the first phase leads to the award of PG diploma/ certificate from the centre and satisfactory completion of both phases leads to the award of Master's degree by Andhra University, India to the eligible candidates. Since its inception, about 258 participants (144 from long courses and 114 from short courses/ workshops) from 39 countries have been benefited so far in different disciplines. A detailed list is shown in Fig. 2.
6. Course Structure
In every Post Graduate programme first module covers the principle and fundamental concepts, Second module covers application of the technology, advance concepts and measurement techniques. Third module is devoted for pilot project. The curriculum structure and emphasis given in various disciplines is shown in Fig. 3.
Some of the typical pilot projects carried out by various students over the years in various disciplines are summarized in Fig. 4, 5, 6 & 7.
Following is the number of awardees in each discipline of M.Tech degree by the Andhra University.
RS & GIS - 8 participants have been awarded and 2 cases are under progress
SATCOM - 6 participants have been awarded
SATMET -
SPACE SCIENCES -
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