Franz Thomas Newland
Associate Professor and Director, Systems Science (SYS) program
School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation
Franz is an Associate Professor who has been at SEDTI since Summer 2024. He teaches multidisciplinary design courses, summer multi-institutional multi-faculty community project courses, and space-related systems engineering courses.
His interests sit at the intersection of space engineering, multidisciplinary and lifelong learning, community learning, and participatory design. He previously worked in the Earth & Space Science & Engineering department at York University, and in the Canadian and European space industries in mission design, mission planning, operations and training, for small missions up to human spaceflight.
Selected Publications
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"Because we need you! Learning advocacy for educational change"
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Transformative but Not Easy: Students' Experiences of an Interdisciplinary, Project-Based Capstone Course
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Introducing space footprint: Case study on the sustainability of Geo Resource
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Reframing Orbital Sustainability Through Indigenous Knowledge: Legal, Ethical, And One Health Perspectives From The S.O.B.E.R. Mission
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Modulation Recognition Using Machine Learning Approaches in CubeSat Signals