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Nasa Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Gabriella E. Fortes, Zach Henney, Mo Sabliny, Johnnie Perry, Jessica Chow, Jessica Turcios, Aaron Taylor, Brenda Haven Jan 2015

Nasa Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Gabriella E. Fortes, Zach Henney, Mo Sabliny, Johnnie Perry, Jessica Chow, Jessica Turcios, Aaron Taylor, Brenda Haven

Aviation / Aeronautics / Aerospace International Research Conference

NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge, held annually in at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is an engineering design challenge that asks teams of student engineers to design a human-powered vehicle capable of traversing a simulated lunar surface. The rover must be able to be transported in a 5x5x5 foot cube, echoing the design constraint faced by the engineers who built the Lunar Roving Vehicles used by the astronauts of the later Apollo missions.


Airport Sms Software Analysis, Steven Goetz, Matt Romero, Yamini Gowda, Alyssa Manning Jan 2015

Airport Sms Software Analysis, Steven Goetz, Matt Romero, Yamini Gowda, Alyssa Manning

Aviation / Aeronautics / Aerospace International Research Conference

Historically, high risk industries such as aviation have attempted to respond to accidents by fixing what they find after the investigation is complete and therefore represents a reactive approach to an accident event. For many years, the industry has tried to become more proactive to these events by seeking out problems and correcting them before an accident occurs. A Safety Management System is a detailed and regimented process by which any high risk industry can try to become proactive in accident prevention. There are many tools that can be utilized to help develop this framework and accomplish this preventative goal. …