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AeroAstro Outreach Program

AeroAstro Outreach Program. Women’s Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (WGA^3) November 28, 2011. Motivation & Goals. Many members of the MIT AeroAstro community participate in outreach One-time talks Educational videos Day-long workshops Multi-week courses

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AeroAstro Outreach Program

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  1. AeroAstro Outreach Program Women’s Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (WGA^3) November 28, 2011

  2. Motivation & Goals • Many members of the MIT AeroAstro community participate in outreach • One-time talks • Educational videos • Day-long workshops • Multi-week courses • Materials are currently dispersed throughout the department • Little or no coordination among users • Content development is labor intensive To facilitate coordination, we are collecting both physical and electronic content to create a repository of existing outreach materials. • Minimize duplicated effort • Lower the barrier of participation • Facilitate development of new content

  3. Outreach Program Overview • Collecting what is already available • General information about Engineering • Presentations about AeroAstro • Photos • Video clips • Lesson plans • Demos and materials • Creating new content • Outreach kits • IAP course • Sharing with the community • Web repository

  4. About Engineering

  5. About AeroAstro: Overview AeroAstro Milestones MIT AeroAstro first member of the Apollo team, designs and builds the Apollo computer, navigation and guidance systems (1960-1973) Used by AeroAstro alums: • Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D. 1963 • Edgar D. Mitchell, ScD ’64 • David R. Scott, SM ’62 • Charles M. Duke, SM ’64 • Russ Schweickart, SB ’56 in their voyages to the moon

  6. About AeroAstro: Education Beaverworks • The concept • AeroAstro-Lincoln Lab collaboration • Involve undergrad and grad students • Real world design – build research projects • Capstone vehicle design program • Project costs funded by external sponsors (Air Force) • 2010-2011 project • Deployable Micro-UAVs ejected from aircraft flare dispensers • 2009-2010 project • UAV for calibrating ground-based sensor systems • 36 16.82 undergrads, eight 16.885 grad students, three faculty, five teaching/lab staff, two RAs

  7. About AeroAstro: Research Richness in Research Breadth New computational methods for real-time data assimilation (Willcox) New methods for controlling walking machines applied to JPL’s legged rover (Williams and Shah) Reducing airport environmental impact through more efficient surface operations (Balakrishnan and Hansman) Shuttle tile damage and simulation of radial and conical cracks in ceramic plate impact (Radovitzky) Space propulsion systems for small satellites: Cubesats (Lozano)

  8. Photos

  9. Instructional Videos http://pbskids.org/designsquad/video/profiles.html http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/19-engineering/videos/14880-a-turn-of-the-earth

  10. Lesson Plans (example from Hemant Chaurasia)

  11. Materials/Demos

  12. IAP Course • 16.687: Hands-On Aerospace (1-2-0, P/D/F) • Team project • Create a hands-on demonstration showcasing one AeroAstro-related subject • Create a mini-lecture describing how to use the demo and what it teaches • Present the project to the other teams • Sample projects • “Build Your Own Wind-Tunnel” • “Program Your Own Unmanned Robot” • “Structures Module: Explore properties of different materials” • Others TBD

  13. Budget Proposal

  14. Summary of Collected Materials

  15. Lesson Plans • Course on Aeronautics (SEED Academy) • Introduction/History of Flight • Forces on an Airplane • Aerodynamics • How does a Plane Fly? • Airfoil and Control Surfaces • Turns and Engines • Activities: Paper airplanes, Wind Tunnel Tour, Student Pilot Interview, Water Rockets, Balsa Glider Project • Course on Astronautics (SEED Academy) • History of Spaceflight and Humans in Space • Astrodynamics and Space Exploration • Spacecraft and Rockets • Activites: MVL Tour, Space Mission Activity • Astronaut School for Middle Schoolers”

  16. Workshops (Single Lessons) • Build Your Own Rocket (Sally Ride Festival) • Rocket Science for Middle Schoolers • Rocket Science for Elementary School • Our Cosmic Origins and the Search for Alien Life • Grand Tour of the Universe • Space History • Glider Design • Space Mission Architecture • Rocket Design • Space Suit Challenge • Airplane Flight • Lunder Landing Game • Remote controlled robotics • How to become a pilot • Boy Scout Space exploration merit badge workshop

  17. On-Campus Demos • X Plane Flight Simulator in 37-301 • ~5 students at a time in room, with 1 person flying at a time • Probably useful for above age 8 • ACL demos • Live demos in house: • Fly a quadrotor using an Xbox controller (kids can fly it) • Multi-agent missions • Battery swapping machine • Remote controlled and fully-autonomous robots • Lots of interactive robotics stuff (show and tell, etc)

  18. Demo Materials • For demo/activity on vacuum and materials • I can lend a portable vacuum pump • Large bell jar is available from GTL • Bball jars that can be used for small items • Thermometer • Can put marshmallows, peeps, balloons, cup of water (temperature goes down after vacuum is applied for for a bit) • Other fun things with some advance notice: • Can fill small propane tanks with some of our Helium (several balloons worth) • Liquid nitrogen carriers, and can get some liquid nitrogen for a few other labs. • Planisphere / Star Wheel (not mine -- it's from Sky & Telescope -- but it's free and awesome) • Space Mission Design Project for Middle Schoolers (by Zach Bailey, who co-taught with me in 2010) • Paper airplane template for systematically varying wing angle of attack, wing size, etc in a series of flight test experiments (not mine, it's from a class 16.888 -- don't remember exactly which professor created it)

  19. Videos and Other Electronic Media • Air Traffic Control video of the screen they use to track and monitor planes, and their voice as they make calls • ACL videos • Lots of quadrotor videos • Hovering airplane (vertical takeoff / forward flight) • Robot catching balls • Multi-agent missions (many scenarios) • Robotic battery swapping machine (quads land and get new battery autonomously) • Trajectory planning and obstacle avoidance • Engineering K-12 outreach videos • http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/13746-mit-engineering-video-pilot---take-a-spin-on-the-centrifuge • http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/engineering:1991/videos/13752-space-so-close-and-so-far-mit-engineering-k-12-video-pilot • http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/engineering:1991/videos/13743-sink-or-swim-mit-engineering-k-12-video-pilot • http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/engineering:1991/videos/13739-making-waves-with-sound-and-light-mit-engineering-k-12-video-pilot • http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/engineering:2246/videos/14880-a-turn-of-the-earth • http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/engineering:2246/videos/14881-time-for-me-to-leaf-tree-chlorophyll-chromatography • http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/engineering:2246/videos/14915-is-that-really-gold-archimedes-and-density • CSAIL research videos • http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mers/mers-videos.htm • MIT 150 posters

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