[NBLUG/talk] NASA engineer to speak at SRJC on Modeling and Simulation on the way to Mars

[Steve Johnson]

Also FYI, if you are a student and have a student permit, they are still
valid so you wont need to pay for parking.. Same with staff permits :)

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Matt Hardwick
<matthew.hardwick at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just an FYI, in case anyone is going to go and doesn't know. You need
> $4 cash for the parking daily passes, and the parking lot your
> probably want to try for is the Emeritus Lot, since that is right next
> to Newman. The permit machines are the bright yellow things in all of
> the lots. The Parking structure is a small walk. Parking should not be
> to hard to find at that time.
>
> It should be good.
>
> --
> Matt Hardwick
> Student / Developer / IT / Tutor
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:22 PM, anet dunne <anetdunne at comcast.net> wrote:
> > There is a talk on Modeling and Engineering by a NASA engineer this
> Friday
> > night, April 1st, 7pm at SRJC Newman Auditorium (Emeritus Hall).  The
> talk
> > is free, parking is not. Will he will talk about the 1999 crash of the
> Mars
> > Climate Orbiter allegedly due to JPL's errors in metric-imperial
> conversion,
> > or the crash landing of Deep Space2  allegedly due to improper hardware
> > testing, or Britain's loss of the Beagle 2 after separation from their
> Mars
> > Express?
> > -----------------
> > The merging of art and science is the future of digital media. This is
> > especially true in the world of modulation and simulation.
> >
> > Modeling and Simulation on the Way to Mars
> > Walt Engelund, NASA engineer
> > Friday, April 1, 2011, 7pm
> > Newman Auditorium (Emeritus Hall)
> > Santa Rosa Campus
> >
> > In a career spanning 22 years at NASA, Walt Engelund has worked on
> > everything from rocket designs, airplanes that travel ten times the speed
> of
> > sound, and spacecraft that have landed on the surface of Mars. In this
> talk
> > he will explain how NASA uses advanced modeling and simulation tools
> across
> > multiple disciplines to help design and certify the entry, descent, and
> > landing (EDL) system on the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s next flagship
> > mission to Mars, scheduled to launch in the fall of 2011.
> >
> > http://www.santarosa.edu/communityeducation/arts-and-lectures/
> >
> >
> >  This is a FREE event! As always, remember parking is enforced 24/7 at
> SRJC,
> > so be sure to purchase a one day parking pass if you don't already have
>  a
> > permit.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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