Tag: Mars

The Orbital Mechanic in STEM Magazine

Screen Shot 2018-01-19 at 8.15.26 PMDear Engineering Stories readers, I am pleased that one of my engineering stories, “The Orbital Mechanic” is published in STEM Magazine and will be available to a large STEM and educator audience. Check it out and please encourage your friends and colleagues to follow Engineering Stories. Here is the link to STEM Magazine. See, “The Orbital Mechanic” on page 32. Best Regards, Ken Hardman

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Special “Football” STEM edition for Superbowl Sunday
Wayne Carley
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Meet a Mechanical Engineer and see what he does

View this excellent short video and feel the enthusiasm this engineer has for his work at JPL. Hear his responses to the questions you probably have about engineering.

http://www.virtualjobshadow.com/CareerProfileDemo/?cguid={87F41A60-DE5A-4C24-B102-15AF1660FC86}

A Real Engineering Story – Engineering Wheels for Mars

Mission name: Mars Science Laboratory

Vehicle name: Curiosity rover

Problem: Wheels wearing out on sharp rocks of Mars

Solving this problem: Watch this lecture at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) given recently.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl

Mars Mission Case Study from

May I recommend this interesting Aerospace Engineering case study presented partly in story form. It comes from the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, University of Buffalo, and the National Science Foundation.

“The Mars Climate Orbiter was deployed by NASA as part of a mission to study weather and climate on Mars.  It was supposed to enter orbit at an altitude of 140.5–150 km (460,000-500,000 ft) above Mars, but due to an error, the space…”

http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=418&id=418

 

 

Beyond Earth – Website

I am excited about what mankind does in space, because I know that such a journey builds our confidence, enlarges our knowledge, and improves our life on Earth. Check out this great website by Boeing called, Beyond Earth. It is a jumping off point for learning reasons to go to space, for experiencing efforts to go to destinations near and far from Earth, and to see the real and planned Engineering systems to take us there.

There is information for educators (lesson plans) and students, news and multimedia. Here is the link. Return to this post and comment on your experience at Beyond Earth.

http://www.beyondearth.com

“I was ten and a half years old when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar dust and into the history books. Wow, I thought, looking up that evening at the moon, half illuminated by the setting sun, how amazing is that? My childhood thoughts of ‘The Man in the Moon’ were changed forever.” (Hardman, Kenneth R.,  My Journey to Engineering, Engineering Stories, Chapter 8)