Epic Challenge Educator Workshop

Speakers

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  9h30 - 10h00 Introduction to the Epic Challenge Program and the ICED Methodology

  Dr. Charles Camarda

  Dr. Charles Camarda retired from NASA in May 2019, after 46 years of continuous service as a research engineer and technical manager at Langley Research Center (LaRC), an Astronaut and Senior Executive (Director of Engineering) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), and as the Senior Advisor for Innovation and Engineering Development at LaRC. He began his career at LaRC in 1974 where he conducted thermal structures research for hypersonic vehicles for 22 years. He was selected as an Astronaut Candidate in 1996 and flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-114, NASA’s Return-to-Flight (RTF) mission immediately following the Columbia disaster. He is an inventor, author, educator, and internationally recognized invited speaker on subjects related to engineering, engineering design, innovation, safety, organizational behavior, and education. He has over 60 technical publications, holds 9 patents, and over 20 national and international awards. Dr. Camarda is the Founder/CEO of the Epic Education Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation seeking to democratize education for learners at all levels and he is the President of an aerospace engineering and education consultancy, Leading Edge Enterprises LLC.

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  10h00 - 10h30 Robotic Mining and Construction on the Moon

  Mr. Kurt Leucht

  Kurt used to be quiet and shy as a child. But he found his voice along with his passion while working in the NASA Swamp Works lab on software for robots and other systems that could someday help us live off the land on Mars during manned exploration missions. He started at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center 28 years ago as a young college intern and then graduated to electronics failure analysis investigator. Then he worked as a software developer and tester for several command and control systems and advisory systems. Now he performs exploration research and technology development for NASA. That’s tech-speak for preparing the way for humans to live on Mars!

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  10h30 - 11h00 Epic Challenge Introduction

  Dr. Ana Gebejes

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  11h00 - 12h00 Systems Thinking and Creativity via Functional Decomposition

  Olivier De Weck

  Olivier de Weck is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned degrees in Industrial Engineering from ETH Zurich (dipl. Ing. ‘93) and Aerospace Systems from MIT (SM ’99, PhD ’01) where he is the faculty director of the Engineering Systems Laboratory (http://systems.mit.edu) and the Bernard M. Gordon MIT Engineering Leadership Program (http://gelp.mit.edu). His main research is in Systems Engineering with a focus on how complex technological systems are designed and optimized and how they evolve over time.

  Important methodological contributions that his group has made to the modeling of complex systems in aerospace and other domains like water, energy, and transportation include Time- expanded Decision Networks (US patent 8,260,652), Generalized Multi-Commodity Network Flows (GMCNF), as well as software tools such as SpaceNet and HabNet. Prof. de Weck is particularly interested in the principles underlying so-called lifecycle properties, or “Ilities” of systems, that only become apparent once a system, product, or campaign has been fielded and operated for years, decades or even centuries. These properties of systems include, amongst others, manufacturability, maintainability, reliability, robustness, reconfigurability, flexibility, and more recently, sustainability. At MIT he teaches popular classes on related topics such as Systems Engineering, Satellite Engineering, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, and Technology Roadmapping and Development. Besides MIT he holds visiting appointments at EPFL in Switzerland and Keio University in Japan.

  He has authored or co-authored over 400 publications for which he has been recognized with twelve best paper awards since 2004. His award-winning book “Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World” was the bestseller at the MIT Press in 2012, was recognized by the Association of American Publishers, and was translated to Japanese. He is a Fellow of INCOSE, an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a Senior Member of IEEE. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Systems Engineering from 2013-2018. He and his group worked with NASA’s Office of Emerging Space to develop new commercial space technology roadmaps and he is a former Senior Vice President of Technology Planning and Roadmapping at Airbus where he was responsible for roadmapping a $1-billion R&D portfolio for the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer. His upcoming book on Technology Roadmapping and Development will be published by Springer-Nature in 2021.

  His passion is to improve life on our home planet Earth through research and education in systems engineering, while paving the way for humanity’s future off-world settlements.

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  12h00 - 13h00 Space Mining Robots under development at Honeybee Robotics

  Kris Zacny

  Dr. Kris Zacny is VP of Exploration Systems at Honeybee Robotics. His interests include space mining, sample handling, soil and rock mechanics, extraterrestrial drilling, and In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). In his previous capacity as an engineer in South African underground gold, diamond, and coal mines, Dr. Zacny managed numerous mining projects and production divisions. This hands-on experience related to drilling and mining became invaluable in developing such technologies for space. Dr. Zacny received his PhD (UC Berkeley, 2005) in Geotechnical Engineering with an emphasis on Extraterrestrial Drilling and Mining, ME (UC Berkeley, 2001) in Petroleum Engineering with emphasis on Drilling and Materials Science, and BSc cum laude (U. Cape Town, 1997) in Mechanical Engineering. He participated in several Antarctic, Arctic, Atacama, and Greenland expeditions. Dr Zacny has approx. 200 publications and five NASA Group Achievement Awards.

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  13h00 Working and Learning in Teams

  Dr. Charles Camarda & Dr. Ana Gebejes

  Dr. Charles Camarda retired from NASA in May 2019, after 46 years of continuous service as a research engineer and technical manager at Langley Research Center (LaRC), an Astronaut and Senior Executive (Director of Engineering) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), and as the Senior Advisor for Innovation and Engineering Development at LaRC. He began his career at LaRC in 1974 where he conducted thermal structures research for hypersonic vehicles for 22 years. He was selected as an Astronaut Candidate in 1996 and flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-114, NASA’s Return-to-Flight (RTF) mission immediately following the Columbia disaster. He is an inventor, author, educator, and internationally recognized invited speaker on subjects related to engineering, engineering design, innovation, safety, organizational behavior, and education. He has over 60 technical publications, holds 9 patents, and over 20 national and international awards. Dr. Camarda is the Founder/CEO of the Epic Education Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation seeking to democratize education for learners at all levels and he is the President of an aerospace engineering and education consultancy, Leading Edge Enterprises LLC.

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  14h00 - 14h30 Creativity, Innovation, and Complex Problem Solving

  Dr. Charles Camarda, Sven Bilen, Yen

  Dr. Charles Camarda retired from NASA in May 2019, after 46 years of continuous service as a research engineer and technical manager at Langley Research Center (LaRC), an Astronaut and Senior Executive (Director of Engineering) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), and as the Senior Advisor for Innovation and Engineering Development at LaRC. He began his career at LaRC in 1974 where he conducted thermal structures research for hypersonic vehicles for 22 years. He was selected as an Astronaut Candidate in 1996 and flew as a Mission Specialist on STS-114, NASA’s Return-to-Flight (RTF) mission immediately following the Columbia disaster. He is an inventor, author, educator, and internationally recognized invited speaker on subjects related to engineering, engineering design, innovation, safety, organizational behavior, and education. He has over 60 technical publications, holds 9 patents, and over 20 national and international awards. Dr. Camarda is the Founder/CEO of the Epic Education Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation seeking to democratize education for learners at all levels and he is the President of an aerospace engineering and education consultancy, Leading Edge Enterprises LLC.

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  15h00 - 15h30 Decision Making/Evaluation

  Dr. Ana Gebejes

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