Minutes for AIAA TCM Meeting
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Cambridge, MA
Oct 12-13, 2011
Host: Dr. John R. Dowdle
[Note that the meeting agenda is found below at the end of the minutes]
Welcome, Announcements & Introductions (John D.)
Attendees:
Members - Andy Amram, Carol Cash, David Elrod, Wilson Felder, Sivavram Goginini,
Tom Goudreau, James Keeny, Cindy Lee, Ajay Misra, Pete Parsons, Curt Richardson,
Suren Singhal, John Dowdle, Ernie Wu, Tom Irvine
Alumni - Adarsh Deepak, Marvine Hamner, Ron Nishinaga, Tom Shaw, Geoge Vlay
Guests - Linda Robeck-Fuhrman, Steve Kolitz
Draper Lab Overview (John D)
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Independent, not-for-profit lab dedicated to applied R&D (focus on D), technology
transfer, and advanced technical education; divested from MIT in ’73; 1400
employees w/ revenue of ~$500M
Bridging the valley of death: solve most challenging problems; vital link between
research and production; support to advanced technical education
Draper’s Evolution: From the birthplace of Inertial Navigation to advanced
engineering R&D – GN&C, MEMS, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, etc.
Engineering Department: Systems Engineering, Hardware Design &
Development, Algorithms and S/W
Critical Capabilities: GN&C, Miniature Low Power Systems, Information &
Decision Systems, etc.
Business Areas (Focus on Important National Problems): Tactical Systems,
Energy Sol’ns, Air Warfare, Space Systems, etc.
Internal IR&D
Space Program Office Overview (Linda Robeck Fuhrman)
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Historic Milestones
o Spire (1953): first inertial measurement system for an aircraft
(predecessor to autopilot)
o Mars Probe (proposed but not flown): laid groundwork for Apollo
o Apollo Contract: first contract for Apollo guidance system
o F-8 Digital Fly-by-Wire (1972)
o Space Shuttle: Dual fault-tolerance for the shuttle; on-orbit GN&C
Recent Accomplishments
o Autonomous Rendezvous, Docking and Prox Ops
o Advanced inertial sensor development
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o Precision airdrop: guided and unguided delivery of payloads in
challenging terrain
o Space Station Operations
o Constellation
A glimpse ahead
o Dream Chaser w/ Sierra Nevada Corp (moving from Phase 2 to Phase 3)
o Planetary delivery and surface mobility
o Precision Pointing and Advanced Rate Sensors
o Gravimetric/Seismic Sensors
o Spectrometers: applicable to Micro and Cube Sats
o Biomedical Bio-Chem Sensors
Q&A
o How does Draper project computing power and what that means or allows
in product development
Lab Tours
 Trident Integration Lab
 Cold Atom Lab
Draper Education Office Overview (Steve Kolitz)
 Draper Lab Fellow Program: supports 50 to 60 students per year; over 1000
since its inception
 University R&D program: supports 25-30 on-campus research projects per year
 Participation in efforts to address the nation’s future engineering workforce
challenges
 Additional Draper-University Interactions
 Education Outreach
Best Practices for Industry-University Collaboration (Prof.Ed Greitzer - MIT)
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Message
o Industry-university collaboration is important to engineering education
o The outcome of industry-university research does not always impact the
company
o Impact is affected by industry project mgmt practices
o 7 practices that can affect this (actionable practices)
Research Objective
o Collaboration Success Metrics
o Outcome-Impact Gap for University Research
o Cultures and Collaboration Skills
 Companies show range for utilizing research
7 Best Practices (Suite of Actionable Items)
o Define project strategic context as part of selection process
o Select boundary spanning project mgrs
o Share, with the university team, the vision for how the collaboration can
help the company
o Invest in long-term relationships
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o Establish strong communications linkage w/ the university team
o Build broad awareness of project within the company
o Support the work internally both during the actual contract and afterwards,
until the research is exploited
Reference: Pertuze, J., Calder, E., Greitzer, E., Lucas, W., “Best Practices for
Industry-University Research Collaborations,” MIT Sloan Mgmt Review, July
2010
Conceive, Design, Implement & Operate (CDIO): Rethinking Engineering Education –
CDIO and Flexible Degrees [Dave Darmofal (MIT)]
 Need for reform
o Desired attributes of an engineering graduate
 Engineering education has evolved over time from the practical (1950s) to
science (1980s) and is now trying to include both
 Design-Implement Experiences: Multi-semester Capstone experience
o Spheres on the ISS
 Flexible Degrees
ExoplanetSat Program – A nanosatellite space telescope for detecting transiting
exoplanets (Sara Seager)
 Exoplanets & Detection
 ExoplanetSat Rationale
 Graduated growth of a modular, extensible fleet of satellites observing bright
stars for other earths
 Concept of Operations
 Spacecraft Design (Sensors, control, etc.)
 University vs Industry approach & mindset (re goals, risk tolerance, mgmt style,
project documentation, etc.)
Hopper / Google Lunar X Prize: A new form of planetary surface mobility: hoppers (Jeff
Hoffman)
 Google lunar x-prize
 Partnership between Draper and MIT developed thje Terrestrial Artificail Lunar
and Reduced Gravity Simulator
MIT Lab Tours
 Space Systems Lab
 Aeronautics Controls Lab
2nd Day Presentations & Business Mtg
[Missed 2nd day, so am looking for notes]
AGENDA
Tuesday, Oct 11th:
Time
Event
6:00-10:00 PM
Arrive at Hotel
7:30 PM
Dinner
Location
Boston Marriott, Cambridge
2 Cambridge Center / 50 Broadway
Cambridge, MA
Legal Sea Foods
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, Oct 12th:
Time
Event
7:45 AM
Meet in Marriott Lobby
Walk to Draper
8:00 AM
8:30 AM
Arrive at Draper
Sign In
Welcome, Announcements &
Introductions
9:00 AM
Draper Lab Overview
9:30 AM
Space Program Office Overview
10:00 AM
Break
10:10 AM
Trident Integration Lab Tour
10:30 AM
Cold Atom Lab Tour
11:00 AM
Draper Education Office Overview
11:30 AM
Lunch
Best Practices for Industry-University
Collaboration
Conceive, Design, Implement &
Operate (CDIO)
12:30 PM
1:00 PM
1:30 PM
ExoplanetSat Program
2:00 PM
Hopper / Google Lunar X Prize
2:30 PM
Lab Tours
3:00 PM
Space Systems Lab Tour
3:45 PM
Aerospace Controls Lab Tour
4:30 PM
Adjourn
6:00 PM
Social Hour & Dinner
Location
Draper Laboratory
555 Technology Sq
Cambridge, MA
Draper Laboratory (Duffy Building)
Main Entrance
John Dowdle
Conference Room 8137
John Dowdle
Conference Room 8137
Linda Fuhrman
Conference Room 8137
Dan Keating
Trident Lab (2313)
David Butts
Cold Atom Lab (6123)
Steve Kolitz
Conference Room 8137
Conference Room 8137
Prof. Ed Greitzer
Conference Room 8137
Prof. Dave Darmofal
Conference Room 8137
Prof. Sara Seager
Conference Room 8137
Prof. Jeff Hoffman
Conference Room 8137
Walk to MIT
Alvar Saenz-Otero; Rebecca Masterson
MIT, 37-327
Mark Cutler
MIT, Bldg 33
Boston Marriott, Cambridge
La Galleria 33
125 Salem Street
Boston, MA
Thursday, Oct 13th:
Time
Event
8:00 AM
Meet in Marriott Lobby
Walk to Draper
8:15 AM
Arrive at Draper
Sign In
Location
Draper Laboratory
555 Technology Sq
Cambridge, MA
Draper Laboratory (Duffy Building)
Main Entrance
8:30 AM
Assemble / Housekeeping Items
Conference Room 8137
8:45 AM
Complex Product Development
Tom Shaw, George Vlay
Conference Room 8137
9:00 AM
Discussion on Engineering Education
Conference Room 8137
Committee Business and Subcommittee Reports
9:30 AM
Committee Business/Subcommittee
Conference Room 8137
9:45 AM
Operations (Irvine)
Conference Room 8137
10:00 AM
Membership (Wu)
Conference Room 8137
10:15 AM
Education (Hamner)
Conference Room 8137
10:30 AM
Break
Conference Room 8137
10:45
Awards (Beskar)
Conference Room 8137
11:00 AM
Special Projects (Gogineni)
Conference Room 8137
11:15 AM
Conferences (Peak)
Conference Room 8137
11:30 am
Alumni (Raiford)
Conference Room 8137
11:30 AM
Conference Room 8137
1:00 PM
Lunch
Chairman’s Report and Review of
Subcommittee (Elrod)
Review of Action Items from Previous
Meeting (Irvine)
Wrap-Up (Elrod)
1:30 PM
Adjourn
12:30 PM
12:45 PM
Conference Room 8137
Conference Room 8137