UTEP and JSC launch Digital Engineering Design Center to support NASA missions, including creating moon settlements

POSTED ON Jun 07, 2023

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and NASA recently launched the Digital Engineering Design Center at Johnson Space Center. This facility will concentrate on developing ground-breaking missions for NASA, such as establishing settlements on the moon. The announcement was made in both Houston and El Paso during a special ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The Johnson Space Center and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) launched a Digital Engineering Design Center (DEDC) aimed at supporting NASA’s groundbreaking missions, such as creating human settlements on the moon. UTEP will be managing the DEDC.

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and NASA announced the opening of a Digital Engineering Design Center (DEDC) at the Johnson Space Center. The DEDC, run by UTEP, will focus on pioneering NASA missions, including the establishment of human settlements on the moon.

The Digital Engineering Design Center will be operated by faculty from Engineering UTEP and located at NASA Johnson.

UTEP President Heather Wilson highlighted the importance of partnerships with agencies like NASA in developing necessary talent. The DEDC will employ talented students from underserved areas in Houston to teach them in-demand digital engineering skills.

The center will work to design an entirely digital production system that can transform lunar surface material into oxygen for use as rocket fuel.

UTEP Aerospace Center engineers will train two NASA engineers to integrate the digital engineering paradigm into their design and development processes.

At a joint ribbon-cutting event today in both Houston and El Paso, UTEP and @NASA formally announced the operation of a Digital Engineering Design Center, run by @EngineeringUTEP faculty from @UTEPAerospace Center at @NASA_Johnson Space Center. 🔗: https://t.co/KhlM8f0pt0 pic.twitter.com/Vnm87W06xx

— UTEP (@UTEP) June 1, 2023