AeroAstro Update Dave Darmofal and Ian Waitz, October 15, 2010

1. AeroAstro Update Dave Darmofal and Ian Waitz, October 15, 2010

2. Exploration, Transportation, Communication, & National Security • 275 manned and 5100 unmanned space exploration vehicles since 1957 • 2 billion enplanements and 21 million flights worldwide in 2006 • Market for new commercial aircraft over next 20 years ~ $3 trillion • Satellites for weather forecasting, communications, climate monitoring, GPS, television, national security • Transatlantic capacity of > 5 tera-bps (equivalent of 500 million simultaneous voice calls) used primarily for internet traffic • U.S. DOD operates 15,000 piloted vehicles with unparalleled capabilities • New age of autonomous air vehicles; UAV’s estimated to be a $50 billion market over next 10 years; now more UAV’s than piloted aircraft • Challenging demographics (56% of Boeing’s 55,000 engineers eligible for retirement in next 10 years) Our Domains

3. Global connectivity

4. Exploration

5. AeroAstro milestones • Nation's first course in aeronautical engineering, 13.72, Aeronautics for Naval Constructors (1914) • Wind tunnel built on Vassar Street in 1914 was first MIT facility on Cambridge side of the Charles River, predating by two years the formal relocation of the campus from Boston to Cambridge.

6. AeroAstro milestones • Doc Draper flies from Massachusetts to Los Angeles using his SPace Inertial Reference Equipment (1953) First long-distance inertially-navigated aircraft flight

7. AeroAstro milestones • MIT AeroAstro first member of the Apollo team, designs and builds the Apollo computer, navigation and guidance systems (1960-1973) • Used by AeroAstro alums • Buzz Aldrin, Ph.D. 1963 • Edgar D. Mitchell, ScD ’64 • David R. Scott, SM ’62 • Charles M. Duke, SM ’64 • Russ Schweickart, SB ’56 • in their voyages to the moon

8. AeroAstro milestones • Sheila Widnall MIT’s first woman professor of engineering (1964) • Becomes Institute Professor and Secretary of the Air Force • Currently teaching two core undergraduate subjects in the department!

9. AeroAstro milestones • Students, faculty, and alumni set world records for human-powered flight (1983-1988) • Monarch wins the Kramer prize for speed, while Daedalus, flies 74 miles from Crete to Santorini, Greece; records still stand today

10. More recently: strategic change reflecting the modern practice of aerospace engineering • Circa 1990: engineering science, “traditional” aero and astro • Mid-1990s: moved towards systems eng. and implicit curriculum • Late-1990s—early-2000s: strategic change to a new AeroAstro • Vehicles, aerospace information, and complex systems • 20 new faculty + expanded linkages with EECS and ESD • Reformed undergraduate educational program • Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate as context • $23 million for new learning environment • Two degrees: Aerospace Eng. and Aerospace Eng. w/Information Tech. • 2005: new AeroAstro fully-fledged • CDIO now in 50 universities in 20 countries • Foundation for MIT-Gordon Leadership Program

11. 2010: Accredited, flexible BS Eng in AeroAstro An opportunity to rigorously address educational needs for the expanding envelope of aerospace and related systems engineering management planetary sciences aerospace software environment transportation Building on our historical strength in collaborative, multidisciplinary problem-solving energy others computational engineering robotics and controls

12. Aerospace context • Strong desire for our flexible engineering degree to be set in the context of aerospace engineering • We achieve this by: • Inclusion of Unified in flex degree core • Satisfaction of lab/capstone requirement with current 16.62x/16.82x/16.83x options • Requirement that concentrations have some relevance to aerospace engineering

13. 16-ENG SB in Engineering As Recommended by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics 16-2 Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology 16-1 Aerospace Engineering Degree comparison Aerospace Experimental Projects Lab/Hands-on, Aerospace Capstone Design Subjects Aerospace Experimental Projects Lab/Hands-on, Aerospace Capstone Design Subjects Aerospace Experimental Projects Lab/Hands-on, Aerospace Capstone Design Subjects Choose 4 out of 9 subjects, with 2 having vehicles focus Choose 4 out of 9 subjects, with 3 having information focus Choose 6 subjects from one of 8 Concentrations each containing dozens of subjects 4 second-level core subjects 4 second-level core subjects 2 second-level core subjects Unified Engineering Unified Engineering Unified Engineering GIRs

14. Concentrations • Computational Engineering • Energy • Environment • Engineering Management • Robotics & Control • Space Exploration • Transportation (in development, not yet included) • Solid and Fluid Mechanics (in development, not yet included)

15. Space Exploration concentration • At least one subject from: • In-Situ Exploration • 7.30J Ecology I: The Earth System • 12.002 Physics and Chemistry of the Terrestrial Planets • 12.007 Geobiology • 12.104 Geochemistry of the Earth & Planets • … • Remote Sensing • 8.03 Physics III • 8.224 Exploring Black Holes: General Relativity and Astrophysics • 8.282J Introduction to Astronomy • 8.284 Modern Astrophysics • … • At least three subjects from: • 2.017J Design of Electromechanical Robotic Systems • 2.12 Introduction to Robotics • 2.71 Optics • 6.034 Artificial Intelligence • … • At least two subjects from: • 16.85 Satellite Engineering (NEW, meets with 16.851) • 16.833 Satellite Design-Build (NEW, sometimes meets with 16.83x) • 16.894J Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System • 16.JOI (9 units) January Operational Internship Experience at KSC

16. Aero-Astro characteristics • World-class people • A young department on the move • Passion for zero-g, one-g, and ten-g missions • We collaborate • Deep commitment to education

17. Questions?