Duct Tape Delusions
Amy Fitzgerald, Amy Smith, Amy Banzaert
Thu Feb 2, Fri Feb 3, 01-03:00pm, 4-402, FEB. 4 at MIT Museum, 12-3
Sat Feb 4, 01-03:00pm, MIT Museum
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Who can make the coolest stuff out of duct tape? Come to the Edgerton Center and make your duct tape dreams come true. We'll provide the duct tape, you provide everything else. The kickoff will be Thursday, at 1:00 p.m. in 4-409. Rolls of tape will be available on both Feb. 2nd and 3rd. Final entries will be due between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. The "Awards Ceremony" will be held at the MIT Museum at 2:45 on Saturday, but come ahead of time and we'll have extra duct tape to play with!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/edgerton/outreach/duct_tape/
Contact: Amy Fitzgerald, 4-406, x3-7931, amyfitz@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Edgerton Center
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Parachutes for Planetary Entry Systems
Dr. Juan R. Cruz, NASA Langley Research Center
Fri Jan 20, 09-11:00am, 2-4 pm, Room 33-206, Note Room Change
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2006
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This mini-course (four hours) provides an introduction to the design, analysis, and qualification of parachutes for planetary entry systems. The lectures emphasize topics relevant to robotic missions, human precursor exploration missions, Earth sample return missions, and Earth qualification of parachute systems. A complete set of lecture notes will be provided, including an extensive bibliography. Sources for further study will be noted.
Contact: Marie Stuppard, 33-208, x3-2279, mas@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Sculpting With Light
Andy Zimmermann Boston artist, member Collision Collective
Tue Jan 24, Wed Jan 25, Thu Jan 26, 05:30-07:30pm, MIT Museum, Large Conference Room
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2006
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Learn to combine animation, video, and sculpture in a three-dimensional space using techniques perfected by Boston artist Andy Zimmermann. Sessions will cover the process of merging projections with sculptural objects and surfaces to make unified, meaningful artistic installations. Previous computer-based animation and video experience is helpful, but not necessary. Course instructor Andy Zimmermann's multimedia installation, "Cars and Stars," will be on exhibit at the MIT Museum through February 24, 2006.
Web: http://emergingtech.mit.edu
Contact: Stephanie Hunt, N52 2nd floor, 253-4405, sdh@mit.edu
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Six Minutes of Terror: The Mars Exploration Rover's Entry, Descent and Landing
Debbie Douglas, Juan R. Cruz
Thu Jan 19, 07:30-09:00pm, MIT Museum
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
In 2004 NASA placed two rovers on the surface of Mars. Before their mission could start, the rovers had to survive the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) sequence. From an approach speed of 5.4 km/s the EDL system had to bring the rovers to a standstill on the surface of Mars. All this had to be accomplished without human intervention, with the knowledge that two thirds of all previous missions to Mars had crashed… Using photographs, videos, and flight data this talk describes the design, development, and operation of the Mars Exploration Rovers EDL system.
Contact: Debbie Douglas, N51-209, x3-1766, ddouglas@mit.edu
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