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

[anet dunne]

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?
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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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