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ISEEM weekly e-Newsletter | March 30, 2017
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Hello, ISEEMers!
This week we meet
Alyse Adams
, an ISE senior working alongside her multidisciplinary engineers on the Northrop Grumman drone project.
Tell me more about the progression of your role on the project.
My official role on the team is Test Engineer. Along with helping design a test plan for our system, my tasks include technical writing for our reports, designing system overview diagrams, and helping put together presentations for the scheduled briefings at Northrop Grumman.
Last semester started out with a lot of presentations. We had an Architecture Requirements Definition presentation, and two Engineering Change Proposals by mid-October. After we presented our ideas, Northrop chose for us to pursue a cyber-based take-down system for an enemy drone, and the design phase started. This semester started out a lot smoother. We already had a plan for the system, and were able to continue where we left off. Now we will be able to demonstrate part of an actual working system, which is a lot more exciting than just showing plans for a working system.
Tell me about the ISE classes you've taken that have directly influenced your work on this project.
The ISE department has done a great job equipping me with systems engineering tools. Part of my role on the team is to help create the necessary diagrams and charts to convey our project's information to Northrop Grumman. One of the classes that helped prepare me for this role is Management Systems Analysis, (ISE 327) with Dr. P.J. Benfield. He introduced us to systems engineering charts that are commonly used in the workplace, then taught us how to use them through team project presentations. Now when our Northrop mentor suggests a certain systems diagram we should use in a presentation, I'm familiar with it, and know how to create it.
Have you done internships at any time in your academic career?
Yes, I started interning with Lockheed Martin SSC in the summer of 2015, and have kept a parallel co-op going with them ever since. I started out with a role in Ground Production, then moved to Configuration and Data Management, and now I am currently working with software and requirements. By experiencing work with different groups in the company I can really appreciate the variety of tasks that go into a successful product.
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THIS FRIDAY (3/31) at TECH HALL...
UAH’s Collaborative Learning Center to host
workshop on agile learning instruction
The Collaborative Learning Center at UAH is pleased to present “All Skate: Active learning in the University Classroom,” a teaching workshop led by Derek Bruff, director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. The workshop will take place in Tech Hall, Room S105, at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 31.
“Dr. Bruff’s lecture is an excellent opportunity to learn more about active and collaborative learning,” says Dr. Dan Rochowiak, associate professor of computer science and director of UAH’s Collaborative Learning Center. “From chairs with wheels to response systems and beyond, Dr. Bruff presents technologies and their role in active learning with clarity and insight.”
An experienced public speaker and the author of both a book and a blog about educational development, Bruff is a vocal proponent of agile learning instruction. “All Skate” takes a closer look at this concept within the context of educational technology, learning communities, and practice and feedback. As Bruff explains, “activities in which every student is invited and encouraged to be actively involved – like “all skate” times at the roller rink – are a more powerful form of active learning instruction than the less formal Q&A periods that can be built into a lecture.”
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ISEEM Faculty and Students Attend
Systems Engineering Conference
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Last week ISEEM faculty and graduate students traveled to Los Angeles for the 15th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research.
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ISEEM's eminent scholar and professor, Dr. L. Dale Thomas presented a paper on generational evolution in complex engineered systems.
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ISEEM graduate researchers Elizabeth Patterson and Zach Thomas presented posters.
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ISEEM department chair, Dr. Paul Collopy, delivered a presentation on tradespace exploration.
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Dr. Bryan Mesmer co-led a panel on formal methods in systems engineering.
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The conference brings together researchers in academic, industry, and government to share systems engineering research and attracts professionals from around the world.
The ISEEM department--namely, Drs. Collopy and Thomas--coordinated last year's conference, which was hosted by UAH at the Von Braun conference center.
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News from UAH News (Mar. 2017)
UAH student's experience as “Marsnaut” further fuels interest in fusion propulsion research
Saroj Kumar spends a lot of time thinking about Mars. As a master’s candidate in aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), his research centers on the use of nuclear fusion propulsion to send rockets – and astronauts – to other planets. So it was something of a surreal experience when Kumar actually had the chance to spend two weeks as a "Marsnaut" at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Hanksville, Utah, whose unforgiving environment is Earth’s closest approximation to that of the Red Planet. "That feeling of living my dream since I was nine of one day going to Mars was really special," he says.
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