Aviation Accident Investigation or Agatha Christie for Engineers
Brian Nield (Boeing Commercial Airplane), Chuck Oman
Tue Jan 13, Wed Jan 14, Thu Jan 15, 02-03:00pm, Room 33-319, Thur 2-4 pm
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 09-Jan-2009
Limited to 24 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Spreadsheet Skills (Excel); Some Familiarity with Aviation
Commercial aviation is extremely safe, in part due to knowledge gained from studying accidents. The investigation process and some of the most significant accidents are discussed. In addition, participants will have the opportunity to work with their peers in a small, self-directed, investigative team to solve a realistic (but fictional) aircraft accident mystery. New information on the crash will be given out each session as you piece together the facts to determine what caused the accident and build recommendations for improving flying safety.
Web: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/16/ia09/16.ai/index.html
Contact: Liz Zotos, 37-219, x3-7805, zotos@mit.edu
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Boeing 767 Cockpit Systems and Automation
Dr. Charles Oman, Brian Nield (Boeing Commercial Airplane), and Colleagues fro
Mon Jan 12 thru Fri Jan 16, 09am-05:00pm, 33-218, Simulator 2-5pm; CBT 6-8 pm
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 24-Dec-2008
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Basic flight simulator flying skills (see below).
Are you an aero-engineering student, pilot, or serious desktop flight simulator user ? Want to understand how transport aircraft systems and automation work ? Boeing and MIT Aero/Astro are offering a Boeing 767/757 systems and automation familiarization course corresponding to those taken by Boeing engineers and airline pilots. Classroom lectures and afternoon/evening sessions using a sophisticated B767-300 desktop flight simulator, computer based training modules, and a 757 or 767 airplane at Logan Airport. You don't need to be a real world pilot, but it helps if you have some familiarity with desktop flight simulator flying. Must preregister by December 24. Intensive course. Morning lectures open to MIT community - no registration required for morning lectures.
Web: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/16/ia08/16.767/index.html
Contact: Liz Zotos, x3-7805, zotos@mit.edu
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Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Tour
Linda R. Fuhrman, Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Thu Jan 15, 09-11:00am, 555 Tech Square
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 11-Jan-2009
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Must be a U.S. citizen.
We will begin with an introduction to the Draper Laboratory, its history, and major projects. We will then visit several areas of the Laboratory and see some of its project activities. Restricted to U.S. citizens who must bring a government issued ID to be admitted to the tour and also bring the confirmation from the contact below. Will depart from the Draper Lab Reception Lobby, 555 Technology Square, Cambridge (next to NE43).
Web: http://www.draper.com/
Contact: Marie Stuppard, 33-208, x3-2279, mas@mit.edu
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Highlights of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Marie Stuppard
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Prereq: N/A
A series of lectures on the activities of the Aero-Astro Department. We will cover areas of interest in research, with oral presentations, films and/or demos. Please revisit this page for other upcoming lectures in this series.
Contact: Marie Stuppard, 33-206, x3-2279, mas@mit.edu
Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon: A History of MIT's Participation in the Guidance, Navigation & Control of the Apollo Spacecraft
Prof. Richard Battin
In the spring of 1961, President Kennedy announced that America would send astronauts to the moon and return them safely to earth. Exactly eleven weeks later MIT was chosen by NASA as the first prime contractor to supply the Guidance and Navigation System for the Apollo spacecrafts. A true story told by one who was there. NOTE CHANGE IN DATE AND LOCATION.
Thu Jan 22, 02-03:30pm, 35-225
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Human Based Research Methods in Surface Transportation
Birsen Donmez
Mon Jan 5 thru Fri Jan 9, 11am-12:30pm, Room 33-319
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 02-Jan-2009
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Human factors issues in surface transportation with a focus on relevant research methods. Literature will be reviewed on topics such as individual differences between drivers, distraction, impaired driving, crash avoidance systems, and policy implications. The methodologies discussed will include the conduct and analysis of simulator, on-road, and naturalistic driving studies, eye tracking and other physiological measures, crash databases and crash database analysis.
Contact: Birsen Donmez, 33-407, x8-5046, bdonmez@mit.edu
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Jet Engine Competition: Analysis, Assembly and Operation
Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky, F. Ehrich, G. de Zarraga
Mon-Fri, Jan 5-9, 12-16, 20-23, 26-30, 09am-12:00pm, Room TBA
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2008
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Unified Engineering (16.003-16.004)
The course gives students a hands-on experience in design modeling and analysis, engine assembly, test bed layout and operation of a small-scale gas turbine jet engine (the JetJoe JJ1200 Mk2 model jet engine kit designed for hobbyists who build jet powered model aircraft). Students are divided into 2 or more teams and supplied with a kit of parts and necessary tools and reference text materials. Teams first establish an aero thermodynamic performance model of the jet engine and estimate the design performance based on geometric information and component performance assumptions. The performance analysis is a competition and each team is asked to provide a performance bid before assembling the jet engine. The jet engine is then tested and the performance measured at the Gas Turbine Laboratory. Winning team will be awarded a prize.
Contact: Prof. Zoltan Spakovszky, 31-265, x3-2196, zolti@mit.edu
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The SPHERES Program Aboard the International Space Station
Dr. Alvar Saenz Otero
Thu Jan 29, 11am-01:00pm, 33-116, Pizza and drinks served.
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Since May 2006, SPHERES has operated aboard the ISS allowing MIT and guest scientists to mature estimation, control, and autonomy algorithms. Since then a total of 15 test sessions have taken place, covering a large range of algorithms, including autonomous docking, formation flight, FDIR, fluid slosh, and more. We will: 1) present a short history of the program's start as a CDIO class; 2) discuss how SPHERES was designed as a "facility" to test a wide range of algorithms; and 3) show numerous tests being conducted aboard the ISS throughout the past 2.5 years, including by three MIT alums. We will also show numerous "space first" results of SPHERES, a video from ISS, and the resulting data. The talk will conclude with a preview of the next phase of SPHERES. Pizza and drinks, first-come-first-served.
Web: http://ssl.mit.edu/spheres/
Contact: Dr. Alvar Saenz Otero, 37-381, x4-6827, alvarso@mit.edu
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