tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38252183091211131662024-03-05T02:22:16.363-05:00IN_SpaceGrant_BCPeriodic updates from the Director of the Indiana Space Grant Consortium, Prof. Barrett S. CaldwellBarrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-38281310794466507842018-09-17T11:47:00.000-04:002018-09-17T11:59:28.986-04:00Countdown Sequence Start<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">(This post is also parallel posted to the grouperlab blog at <a href="http://grouperlab.blog/2018/09/17/countdown-sequence-start/" target="_blank">grouperlab.blog/2018/09/17/countdown-sequence-start/ </a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I started seriously
thinking about the countdown when we hit 600.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(<a href="http://grouperlab.blog/2018/06/12/500-days-or-five-good-months/" target="_blank">I even started a blog entry about it, but I didn’t manage to finish ituntil we were crossing 500.</a>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 400, it
became obvious that regular meetings would be needed and important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 350, I created a timer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, as we approach 300, I can start to hear
the ticking in my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">July 20, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The 50<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, and especially the moon landing, is a
primary emphasis of my administrative and engagement work for this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It touches many of my connections on the
Purdue campus, as well as multiple existing partnerships and new conversations
around the State of Indiana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one
sense, I am reminded of my preparations for race day when I was involved in competitive
rowing as a coxswain, dozens of years (and pounds) ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Race preparation obviously doesn’t start when
you get in the boat a half hour before you hit the starting line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often, the planning process works backwards:
if we want to be ready to row <b>that race</b> on <b>that day</b>, what do we
have to do today?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What skills and drills
do we emphasize?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What specific
contingencies do we practice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What can I
learn about my boat (not just the physical craft, but the four or eight people
who rely on me to steer straight, make the right decision, and earn their
trust) right now, that will make the difference days or weeks hence?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">I still find myself
adopting that preparation model for events: lectures for class, public
interview and presentation opportunities, project management for the lab or a
research team or Space Grant activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The process gets more intricate and the need to connect gets stronger as
the scale gets larger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do I channel
that passion well?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the elegant
set of plans and preparations that allows me to use today to get us closer to
excellent execution on that day that seems both far off and approaching way too
fast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more we discuss among our
Mission Operations “consoles,” the more I recall how deeply I feel the
importance and impact of December 1968 – July 1969, the first time we left
Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also more acutely aware that
not everyone feels this, and the purpose of this celebration is not just to get
everyone to connect to Apollo 8 or Apollo 11 the way I do (“my favorite
thing”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must explore and connect how
many different ways people to connect to the variety of inspirations and
experiences of exploration – aviation, space, scientific discovery, engineering
innovation, inspiration and engagement and education of various types for each
unique individual and her or his special pattern of resonance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">This charge, more than
any other, underscores the need I feel for a palette of events, rather than
simply focusing on a single signature activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Neil flew a variety of aircraft from his childhood through his return
from the Moon; as a student, he played in the band and built and flew model
airplanes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time Purdue was
celebrating its centennial in 1969, Indiana had already played an outsized and
varied role in aerospace history (which many people still do not fully
appreciate).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Balloons were employed to
deliver airmail before the Civil War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Wright family lived here, in Hagerstown; Wilbur was born there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aircraft engines for World War I and II were
built here, and critical training for aviators (including the famed Tuskegee
Airmen) was led by those born, or living, or trained in Indiana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amelia Earhart worked here, inspiring women
to fly and get their technical training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of that was in place before a youth from Wapakoneta, OH decided to
enroll at Purdue, overlapping with a slightly older student from Mitchell, IN,
who both had dreams to fly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every one of
these stories is about dedication and planning and preparation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Why do I take this so
seriously, and worry about the countdown so much?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unexpectedly, on the way back from the
National Space Grant Directors meeting (this year, during a beautiful late
summer oasis in Vermont), I got an answer – serendipitously, while writing this
entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New colleagues from another Space
Grant consortium saw my pins and stickers, and asked about their effectiveness
in stimulating interest and engagement and enthusiasm for Space Grant
programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conversation drifted to
strategies for engagement with FIRST Robotics… after a few minutes, another
passenger comes over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s a scientist,
and passionate about FIRST and STEM education, and we end up having a good
conversation about our Space Grant mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since I still consider myself something of an introvert, this type of
conversation is what preparation helps me do well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">But, over the next 306
days, there will be more people, and more opportunities, and more connections,
all to get from imagining to planning to excellent execution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each day has new opportunities for meeting challenges
and enabling achievements, as well as the need to maintain wariness against new
surprises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The count goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-3365650123088462202015-07-02T19:39:00.003-04:002015-07-02T19:39:32.390-04:00“Mac’s Old Team” and New Awards: Details Matter<br /><div class="MsoNormal">
How do I know it’s summer in Indiana? Usually, it’s when I’m a) checking the corn
fields against the old “knee high by the Fourth of July” aphorism; b) checking
the forecast for thunderstorms and/or temperatures over 90 degrees; c) driving
to Jasper for the Grissom Scholarship Golf Tournament and Awards Banquet. This year was no exception on any of these,
although there was an important difference: on the day before the tournament, I
was already in southern Indiana, attending a weeklong vacation for a subset of
car geeks: the <a href="http://parade2015.pca.org/" target="_blank">60th Porsche Parade in French Lick and West Baden Springs</a>. </div>
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Great!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I already have
my clubs! I’m only 25 miles away!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
driving my classic German-engineered toy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What am I going to
talk about?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Fortunately, I’m among friends at the <a href="https://www.sultansrun.com/" target="_blank">Sultan’s Run golf course</a>: people who laugh at my jokes, people who have seen my golf game improve
(ahem!), and people who are eager and excited to hear about new projects and
new updates in my work with NASA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
also excited to reconnect with “new old friends,” some retired engineers from
McDonnell Corporation who helped to design and build Project Mercury.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I admire these engineers (and their wives)
for their commitment, honesty, passion, and their unique legacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at them, smile as they greet me and
shake my hand, and an idea comes to mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Tonight’s talk isn’t about big rockets, or shiny mission
control centers, or stunning new pictures of far-away galaxies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love all of those things, but in the
elements of my current research projects in healthcare information
coordination, and weather information technology for general aviation, and
teams conducting planetary analog research, there is a theme that could be
easily missed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Details matter.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At the Porsche Parade, one of the Porsche engineers talked
about the weeks and months of effort associated with the color of a <a href="http://blog.caranddriver.com/porsche-911-gts-club-coupe-is-a-60th-anniversary-present-to-the-porsche-club-of-america/">special
edition of their signature car</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
do we match the color to the iconic reference of Porsche in the USA?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What color is it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do we manage the logistics with our suppliers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do we call it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this for a shade of blue?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Actually, it’s called <a href="http://press.porsche.com/news/release.php?id=901">Club Blau</a>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">danke</i>.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we’re only making 60 cars?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(60<sup>th</sup> Porsche Parade, 60<sup>th</sup> year of the car club …
you get it?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, this is for a company
that is taking pride in the cars that have driven from all over the US
(including Alaska), and have a rich racing history, and celebrations of
vehicles with over 500,000 miles on the odometer, or the same owner after 50 or
60 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The process of selecting Club
Blau is part of an important signal: Details Matter when you want excellent,
iconic, legendary engineering.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are a few pharmacists in the audience, so I’m pleased
to talk about our work with medication delivery safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re in the world of getting the right
dose of the right drug to the right patient at the right time (that’s four of
the six “rights”), 99% isn’t even close to good enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2014, there were 4.2 Billion prescriptions
filled in the US—90.15 million in Indiana alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Indiana pharmacists were only 99% correct,
there would still be over 901,000 people getting something wrong in their
prescriptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get this down to under
10 people, we’d need “seven nines” accuracy: systems of people, and technology,
and information making an error less than one in ten million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t get there with casual integration
or poor thinking or blame after the fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You get there with a relentless focus on details and systems integration
and always thinking, “How can we make this better?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Astronaut Scott Kelly is on board the International Space
Station for a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a long
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, that’s not even a third
of a planned mission to Mars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do we
get astronauts to work together with robots, and science investigators, and
mission control engineers, to do excellent science and keep everyone alive and not
waste valuable time, expertise, or access to unique veins of knowledge on
another planet, moon or asteroid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
project work in Idaho, and now in Hawaii, looks at how to improve the quality
and effectiveness of communication to ensure the right details get to where
they need to be, and that knowledge and information are exchanged well, even
with 20 minute communication delays.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I admit, all of that sounds a long way off for a 17 year old
student who just graduated from high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s for old folks, not for me, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To paraphrase an often-seen reference, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Objects in the future are closer than they
appear</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, the “Old Mac Team” engineers are senior and
retired <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i>, but how old were they
when they were moving to Cape Canaveral, or flying to meet with a contractor with a stuck
gyro on their lap?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were in their
mid- to late-20s, at most 10 years older than this year’s Grissom Scholarship
winners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps an even closer example
was dedicated this past April, and exists right now on the Purdue campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With some prodding from me, the smartphones
came out, and people began to view images of the <a href="http://www.insgc.org/voss">VOSS model</a> of the solar system near the
corner of Martin Jischke Dr. and Nimitz Dr. on the West Lafayette campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">VOSS EPICS students prepare for dedication and open house, April 18, 2015</span></td></tr>
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That’s an impressive and iconic landscape feature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fully expect that, in just a few years, it
will be common to hear people say, “Let’s meet at the Sun.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what is most impressive and memorable
about this effort is that it started as a student project, led by a young woman
who took on a major leadership role in the VOSS project as a sophomore for an
EPICS team in 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting VOSS from
an idea to a landscape icon and sculpture on campus is not a single task; it’s
a long and complex series of lots of little tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not just which artist to pick for the
design, or how big to make the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
also involves how big the bolts need to be, and what pieces need to be in the
planet plaza to represent a star chart for Janice Voss’ birth, or having the
sculptures be deemed suitable for a campus safety audit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYGTp5zpHrBOvTmeeFZogqevWX-9gPIgbnP1x-oVWzmZ1i7xwKqpaQqhxcmSuOwmUpYAqn76DE6gXuSz7NgWlvjlXDcaF_UY12cLh4RhGpa5VuyWlox7yIQ3u2WnYxbQW-77LW01Y1FMC/s1600/IMG_0280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYGTp5zpHrBOvTmeeFZogqevWX-9gPIgbnP1x-oVWzmZ1i7xwKqpaQqhxcmSuOwmUpYAqn76DE6gXuSz7NgWlvjlXDcaF_UY12cLh4RhGpa5VuyWlox7yIQ3u2WnYxbQW-77LW01Y1FMC/s320/IMG_0280.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Barrett with VOSS artist, Jeff Laramore</span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.jsmf.org/about/founder.htm">In a
tribute to James McDonnell, his son John noted</a>, “he did everything in life
with meticulous attention to detail, to the point that it could be
excruciatingly, maddeningly exasperating to those around him; but he also
inspired those same people with a sense of important mission and high purpose.”
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to do wonderful, amazing,
transforming, legendary things…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-89823681904343325882014-12-31T15:38:00.000-05:002014-12-31T15:38:34.143-05:00Ring out the Old<div class="MsoNormal">
As we get to the end of 2014, I have been able to take some
time to marvel at all that has occurred—in my research lab, in Space Grant, in
my personal life… but I won’t be going into all of those details here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been interesting to note that,
although I have been travelling nearly as much as ever, this year’s flight
miles have been lower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One reason is
that several of my trips—including my Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
meetings, and a trip to Iowa for a Space Grant outreach talk—have been driving
rather than flying trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as the
Fall semester winds to a close, and the Indiana temperature begins to dip below
zero (Celsius, if not Fahrenheit), travel takes on a different level of need
for preparation and contingency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, what’s
the solution?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fly to California, where
it’s nice all the time!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, it’s not quite that simple, or that
self-indulgent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one of my projects,
a team of researchers are investigating the role of weather information
presentation on how general aviation pilots understand and respond to (and, we
hope, avoid) potentially dangerous weather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Apparently, Harry Bailey in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s
A Wonderful Life</i> could fly through a snowstorm to get back home for his
brother on New Year’s Eve, but most recreational pilots shouldn’t.) Many pilots
are only cleared to fly in good weather (what’s called Visual Flight Rules, or
VFR).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite (or in some reports,
exactly because of) the prevalence and growth of smartphones and tablets that
can display what might be assumed to be current weather, pilots have been known
to fly into degrading weather (knowing as Instrument Meteorological Conditions,
or IMC).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who’s flown in a
commercial jet through storm turbulence knows that IMC conditions are not a
walk in the park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re not trained
for them, the combination of limited experience, transition from VFR to IMC,
and poor information about the state of the world is a potentially fatal
combination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Our project (funded by the FAA) is intended to understand
how delays in updating and presenting weather information (including what might
be shown on your tablet device) can further intensify the risks associated with
VFR into IMC transitions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been
asked to take on a growing leadership role with our sponsors from the FAA in
this project, starting in January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus,
there were some trips to take in December to make sure things were going to be
on track: first to the William J Hughes Tech Center in Atlantic City, and then
to the NASA Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In between final project submissions and grading, those trips were my
final flight experiences of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I admit that the busy time of December meant that I was only
paying scant attention to the weather report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I knew it would be in the 50s and 60s while I was in Northern
California, but with chances for rain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pack a rain jacket and umbrella; leave the parkas behind; no big
deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except that the rain was a big
deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Historic rains drenched California
on Thursday, Dec 11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time I
landed in Los Angeles on Saturday morning, the aqueducts were actively flowing,
and there were standing puddles between the runways at LAX.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noted that with some bemusement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time I got to San Jose, it became even
more obvious that a whole lot of rain had fallen (some areas in the Bay Area
got 6-10 inches of rain), with more on the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The big question was, after three years of devastating drought, what to
do with all of this water and reservoirs that had filled almost literally
overnight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Monday, my visit to NASA
Ames was met by some surprising residents that I had not seen there before:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mushrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monday Morning Mushrooms, NASA Ames Research Center</td></tr>
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Well, that’s obviously not why I went to NASA Ames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I had lots of reasons to visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For most of us in Space Grant, it’s getting
to internship season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do students
want to go for their opportunities to get a foot in the door with NASA?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which Centers have jobs, and how can we match
the best students to the best jobs… early enough in the spring so that the
students have the chance to take the job?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, my visit started with the Office of Education folks, so that I could
learn more about what they were looking for, and they could understand how to
better coordinate with at least one Space Grant Consortium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This seems like an excellent opportunity for
collaboration and discussion, especially since I had the chance to be there
anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, I do encourage any
faculty member at a Space Grant campus, and especially Space Grant Directors,
to pay a visit to the Office of Education the next time you’re at a NASA
Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mutual learning can be
wonderful, and is a valuable addition to the job and the trip.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front Door, NASA Ames Office of Education (note reflection in the glass)</td></tr>
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After visiting the Education folks, it was off to the human
factors researchers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a group at
NASA Ames that has been doing work on aviation human factors and information
displays for a number of years, and in fact had created some of the software
that might be useful for our FAA project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like going back to Ames—the researchers in the Human Performance
Research Laboratory represent every major phase of my NASA research career
since my first years of graduate school, and it feels like I saw nearly all of
them as they were going into their office or walking down the hall or moving
between buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, like a proud
father, I can go and also talk to the people who worked with one of my current
graduate students, Lara Cheng.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, it’s
not really a surprise that I was looking forward to visiting the human factors
researchers in N-262 (it’s not just MIT that refers to all of its buildings
using numbers).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NASA Ames Human Performance Research Laboratory, N-262</td></tr>
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What several of my colleagues took great pride in calling
out to me was that it was Ames’ 75<sup>th</sup> Anniversary!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hold on, you say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NASA only dates to 1958.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, it’s true that NASA has been “America’s
Space Agency” for about 55 years, but for 20 years before that, Ames research
center was a site for major aviation research study, including one of the
largest wind tunnels (capable of testing full-scale models, or even actual
aircraft), operating as part of the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics
(NACA).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, 40 x 80 feet is really
big.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NACA 40 x 80 foot Wind Tunnel entrance.</td></tr>
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Often at the end of the year, we try to make promises to get
rid of old habits, and discard old features and functions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a fan of the history of technology, I’m
not completely thrilled by taking that idea too far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, it can be a time for renewal, but I
found myself appreciating the reminders of where we’ve come from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it somehow ironic, with the recent
announcements of Google becoming a major tenant (some would say landlord) for
the Ames facility, when I found this reminder of what literature search and
reference support used to be: the NACA Technical Service building.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As I was departing Ames on Monday, there was a break in the
weather that allowed a view of the nearby mountains through the nicely cleaned
air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The NACA history was similarly
clear and visible, with the wings logo providing a beautiful foreground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The story is apparently that one of the old
NACA buildings needed to be torn down, but they salvaged the logo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now all that stands in the former site is the
cement logo, and a small park.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, as you ring out the old, don’t lose too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you welcome the new, don’t assume that
every new item will necessarily make your life better, safer, happier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Remember, that was why I was visiting on
behalf of the FAA project.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be careful
out there, and a Happy New Year to all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-71925293253266287192014-11-18T22:42:00.000-05:002014-11-18T22:42:36.359-05:00STEM Interpretation(Note: This is a "reprint" of the Director's Notes for the Fall 2014 INSGC Newsletter.) <br />
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What do Toronto and Des Moines have in common?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, they were both on my travel itinerary,
as I had the opportunity to speak in both cities about STEM education and
outreach, and my Space Grant experiences over the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Des Moines was the site of the Great
Midwestern Regional Space Grant meeting, with presentations by each of the
eight member state Space Grant Consortia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Toronto, you might guess, was a bit bigger: the 65<sup>th</sup>
International Astronautical Congress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
fact, both talks highlighted an even more unlikely location: Arco, ID (the
first city in the world powered by nuclear energy, back in 1953) and Craters of
the Moon National Historic Monument and Preserve (CRMO NMP).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My trip to Idaho was part of a project known
as FINESSE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Field Investigations to
Enable Solar System Science and Exploration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The goal of FINESSE is to manage an important level of scientific and
engineering integration: conduct real planetary science research (in this case,
behavior and characteristics of volcanic flows) while also developing improved
understanding of human spaceflight exploration capabilities in analog research
environments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CRMO is no stranger to
NASA, having been the site of several training missions for a number of Apollo
astronauts (including Purdue alumnus Gene Cernan).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And though I could not tell my a’a from my
pahoehoe before leaving Indiana, I was a member of the research team on the
exploration side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magically and
wonderfully, this is the sort of research I have been working towards my entire
career: examining group-level information flow and task coordination for
expedition-class spaceflight teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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An unexpectedly rich element of the FINESSE project was STEM
outreach to the general public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The team
set up our LIDAR and differential GPS base units at the edge of a scenic
lookout; while members of the team and I scrambled over the lava flows, members
of the public could (and did) just wander up to us and ask questions about what
we were doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On “Media Day,” a general
public outreach opportunity set up by the Idaho Space Grant Consortium (of
which CRMO is an affiliate), a few of us got to present to a standing-room only
crowd about the FINESSE research and why it is important and helpful for
understanding planetary processes as well as the local features of this
fantastic national monument and wilderness preserve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is perhaps more striking is that, for
most of these interactions (including my impromptu talk to a few visitors outside
the visitors’ center that morning), people were not coming to CRMO with a
directed focus on NASA, spaceflight exploration, or the breadth of STEM
research and engagement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a
trivial matter, and I was reminded (thanks also to other presentations in Des
Moines) of how significant the gap is between those of us who do STEM for a
living, and those in the general public who may not be aware of “how STEM gets
done”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of being at a party, and
you’re talking to someone who is droning on about “their favorite thing” in a
way that only those who also have that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>topic as their own “favorite thing” would understand or care at
all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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If you’ve interacted with me at all, you know that I have a
lot of enthusiastic passions and responses to STEM, rocket science, and long
duration space flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the challenge
for me comes from a reminder of both my doctoral research (also in the National
Park Service) and the Media Day at CRMO.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the concept of “STEM Interpretation”: when a visitor comes to
your site, they may have questions about what they’re seeing, and why it’s
important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The park ranger’s job is to
make a connection, and tell a story about the park’s resources and important
features: to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">interpret</i></b> those features and resources in the context of the
visitor’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, I can spend a lot
of time talking about differential equations and stability factors affecting
benefit / cost ratios of information gain and sensemaking effort… but that’s
not really interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s my
story, my favorite thing. How do we broaden this into an interpretation
story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, starting with advanced
mathematics probably isn’t the best way to start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, and as I am hearing at the Toronto
conference, there is a strong value to connecting to “what does this mean for
us,” wherever that person happens to be now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What if we turned off space technology for a day?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would that affect their lives?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(No satellite TV, no location options on your
cell phone… wait, no cell phone!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
an interpretation effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In essence, STEM Interpretation is a broad, accessible
approach to connecting stories to people where <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i></b> are, not just where <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we</i></b>
are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an interest in these
topics among the general public, but this interest is also tempered by
significant gaps in understanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
one of the Toronto speakers highlights from his experience with being
interviewed about his role in analog research, people can connect to the human
side of STEM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone connects to
the mathematical or technical details of how STEM happens, and those details can
seem very far away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interpretation
doesn’t mean that we make the public do <b>all</b> the work, or require them to
get excited in exactly the same things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s just a case of helping a variety of
people find their thing to get excited, to create a new group of people with a
favorite STEM thing, and maybe even a new list of favorite things that we help
them find and favor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, in the
end, interpretation is also about creating new stories, and sharing those stories
in new ways. <o:p></o:p></div>
Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-55446433999081933322014-11-02T13:50:00.001-05:002014-11-02T13:50:07.640-05:00Pain and Passion in the Program<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“If we die, we want
people to accept it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re in a risky
business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the
program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conquest of space is worth
the loss of life.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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That quote is, of course, especially meaningful and painful
this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one thing to say these
words, to write this bold check in a very expensive bet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what happens when circumstances dictate
that it’s time to collect? <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a particular poignancy to my comments about the
fatal accident of <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2014%2F11%2F02%2Fus%2Fspaceshiptwo-incident%2F&ei=AHhWVP3qCbGZsQTgzoH4CA&usg=AFQjCNGrcMObixDBPcTTGJjIC-ax-lJbYA&sig2=Uu0GOSZiHt0SyN7sDiEU3w&bvm=bv.78677474,d.cWc">Virgin
Galactic SpaceShip Two</a> on Friday, October 31, or the explosion of the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F27615-antares-rocket-explosion-timeline.html&ei=O3hWVL6pGemHsQTz04DYBw&usg=AFQjCNFPjxNbheDs2LvTx7xK8zoPpZXs_Q&sig2=RhjcZPVQP0nniwESkxAwWg&bvm=bv.78677474,d.cWc">Orbital
Sciences Antares</a> rocket on Tuesday, October 28.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent Friday traveling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I left Chicago, where I was attending the <a href="https://www.hfes.org//Web/HFESMeetings/2014annualmeeting.html">Human
Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting</a> (How do people
learn, perform, and thrive in a complex world? How do we design and improve the
systems with which people must interact?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My destination was Durham, and the <a href="https://spacevision.seds.org/">Students for the Exploration and
Development of Space SpaceVision</a> conference (How can the next generation of
passionate space enthusiasts meet with each other and their teachers and
heroes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can they get access to their
favorite things of the world, and eventually get to work on them for a
living?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time I went to bed, I’d
read several reports on the SpaceShip Two accident, and the initial stages of
analysis of what might have caused the critical anomaly (anomalies?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other news, environmental sensing and data
collection for the Antares accident site was still ongoing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wallops Island and the Mojave Desert now have teams of
investigators on site, attempting to figure out what happened, and what we can
learn from these profoundly painful and demoralizing experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of this writing, we don’t know exactly
what happened on Tuesday evening, or Friday morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We probably won’t know definitively for a
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can tell you two things
that they won’t find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will not find
evidence of someone who woke up that day and thought, “Let me figure out how to
screw it up big time today”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
teams will not find evidence that space is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supposed</i></b> to be easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may have been errors, but those errors
are most painfully manifested in an environment that is fundamentally and
profoundly intolerant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us do not
spend much time in the harshest regions of such environments, and we do not
respect the environments when we encounter them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was profoundly angry and upset to see
television and website news reports with banner headlines: “Is this the end of
commercial space flight?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Can’t we make
space travel safe?” My simple response is that the answer to both questions is
an unqualified “NO”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For perspective, a
statistic quoted by <a href="http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/36643lori-garver-leaving-nasa-for-air-line-pilots-association">Lori
Garver</a>, currently of the <a href="http://www.alpa.org/">Air Line Pilots
Association</a>, during the SpaceVision conference: at one point, the fatality
rate for aviation pilots was 87%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
now, commercial aviation is statistically far safer than driving (but we don’t
stop getting in our cars).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The total
NASA human spaceflight fatality rate is roughly equivalent to that of those
attempting to climb Mt. Everest (but there are still people who choose to do
it, because it’s there).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We can certainly work to make space travel, and many other
aspects of the world, safer than they are currently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we challenge ourselves, intelligently
marry our capabilities and culture, we can get better. Since the first
commercial air flights in the 1920s, what has reduced the fatality rate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are three main sources of change that I
think are relevant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beginning with the
development of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics">NACA
(the forerunner of NASA) in 1915</a>, there has been a great investment in
government research to improve the available materials, processes, and
technologies applied to airframes, propulsion systems, avionics, wings, and
other components.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As capabilities
improve, multiple companies have gotten involved to create, and support,
growing demand through a variety of technology solutions (some of which is
advanced from proprietary, in-house company research).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
third approach is not purely technological, but sociotechnical: we’ve changed
the culture and processes of how commercial flight gets done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The number of accidents in commercial
aviation has dropped significantly due to the implementation of human-machine
system improvements as well as human-human processes such as Cockpit (now Crew)
Resources Management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And certainly,
this pathway has not been without costs; individual aircraft, and even whole
solutions (such as the <a href="http://www.dmflightsim.co.uk/dh106_comet_history.htm">de Havilland Comet</a>),
have been forced to pay on the bet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
yet, we continue to fly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, I am not hardened or uncaring about pain or loss; in
fact, I am a strong advocate of a national stand-down period of memory,
reflection and refocus on the challenges of human spaceflight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That stand-down period would be January 27 –
February 3 each year—a single week window spanning the anniversaries of the
loss of Shuttles Columbia and Challenger, and Apollo 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we have the justification for a
similar period of recognition for commercial spaceflight, although it is still
very early in our experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the clear
answer is to attend to the painful lessons of the past, and use those lessons
to do better—not to give up because it was hard, or dangerous, or painful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The author of the quote at the start of this essay knew
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was willing to make that bet, even
knowing that the check might be called in for collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was <a href="http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=54">Gus Grissom</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-53260265672342182602014-04-16T18:49:00.000-04:002014-04-18T08:59:29.316-04:00Touching Down and Springing Up<div class="MsoNormal">
Last Saturday was a great day to be a Space Grant Director
on the Purdue campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather was a
wonderful and warm backdrop for a range of delightful activities: speaking with
Purdue astronauts and their families; examining artifacts from the <a href="http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/flight-and-space/">Barron Hilton Flight
and Space Exploration Archives</a> in the Purdue Libraries’ <a href="https://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol">Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special
Collections Research Center</a>; smelling the mulch and straw and manure;
listening to the bleats of the lambs…<o:p></o:p></div>
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What?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although I grew up an East Coast city person, I recognize
that I have now spend nearly 30 years attending, living and working on agricultural
campuses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>April 12, in addition to being
the date of the <a href="http://www.purdue.edu/space/">Astronaut Forum</a>, was
also the date of <a href="https://ag.purdue.edu/springfest/Pages/default.aspx">Spring
Fest</a>, a celebration of agricultural and life sciences and their role in the
life of Purdue and Indiana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s no
longer surprising to me to see people in Holstein-themed aprons or booths that
demonstrate milking cows, shearing sheep, or crop management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s part of the life of a comprehensive land
grant university. And, at the risk of revisiting a controversial topic, it’s
why I don’t see adding an “A” (for agriculture) to STEM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agriculture is an application of science,
technology, engineering and mathematics skills, in much the same way
astronautics is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t add an extra
letter in the acronym to describe the specific problems of human
spaceflight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keeping <a href="http://www.genecernan.com/">Gene Cernan</a> alive on the moon, or helping <a href="http://vimeo.com/31391005">Drew Feustel</a> repair the Hubble Space
Telescope, involves solving problems in a range of science disciplines, using
the language of mathematics, and the skills and products of engineering and
technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could also talk about harvesting
high-yield alfalfa to keep my herds healthy through long winter months. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What do we learn from human spaceflight? What do we get out
of it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a question posed to the
astronauts during the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcOCL5_yhQ" target="_blank">Public Forum held on Saturday evening</a>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were lots of sentiments expressed—not
just in the cold analysis of economics (all the money spent on human
spaceflight are spent to develop technologies and employ people here on Earth:
it’s too expensive to launch money), but in the passion of people who want to
share a perspective that has transformed their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Walker">Charlie Walker</a> (a
native of Bedford, IN) stated, human spaceflight is more than just people and
technology—it is the change in perspective and value that comes from “viewing
our home planet from beyond”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spaceflight is also about
inspiration—“inspiration to change people’s lives” (Drew), to “inspire them
with passion to do what has been left undone” (Gene).<br />
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<a href="http://<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gFcOCL5_yhQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>" target="_blank">Video of Astronaut Public Forum</a><br />
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Perhaps more important than what we get out of human
spaceflight is what goes into it, and that is education—particularly STEM
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people (like me) went
into STEM specifically wanting to be an astronaut, but ended up somewhere
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some started out somewhere else,
and ended up as astronauts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As <a href="http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/brown-mn.html">Mark Brown</a> (a
native of Valparaiso, IN) put it, “we were willing to take a chance,” to see
where the education would lead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
common feature, though, is a curious, interested approach to education:
curiosity, in Gene’s words, “is the essence of human existence”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should do this more, and early, and often,
according to <a href="https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/Awards/Institutional/DEA/DEA_2011/Payton">Gary
Payton</a>, who continues to be involved in STEM education (at the <a href="http://www.usafa.edu/df/dfas/Faculty/Payton%20Bio%20Feb%2012.pdf">US Air
Force Academy</a>):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“wrap [kids’ lives]
around STEM, in the 6<sup>th</sup> – 8<sup>th</sup> grades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>STEM is critical for the nation’s future.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>STEM also involves a process of how to “think
about things and go do them,” according to <a href="http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/loren-j-shriver">Loren
Shriver</a>: “you’ve got to put it all together and think on your own”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Astronauts and agriculture?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it’s interesting that Charlie, Drew, Gary, Loren, and Mark all
grew up in Midwestern towns strongly influenced by agriculture: farming,
lumber, and farm equipment manufacturing were frequent themes. And from these
backgrounds, through Purdue, all sprung from earth and touched down once more
on the Space Shuttle, one of the most amazing engineering vehicles ever
built.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I’ve said before, and repeated
to myself while walking across campus last Saturday… It’s all STEM to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-48441117501440280192014-01-06T13:39:00.000-05:002014-01-06T13:39:10.733-05:00On the Twelfth Day of Christmas...<div class="MsoNormal">
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supposed “Twelfth Day of Christmas,” or Orthodox Chrtistmas, depending on
whether you prefer your calendar Gregorian or Julian), and we’re not at the
office today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only Purdue, but much
of the State of Indiana, is closed or under travel warnings (only “essential
personnel” or “emergency travel” permitted), and as devoted to INSGC as I might
be, it’s more important to stay home and safe with -15F Fahrenheit temperatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From a science geek perspective, there’s much
to get excited about: does the 12 days of Christmas come from the gap rectified
by the Gregorian calendar adjustment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
is it an older reference to the Druidic belief of the Solstice (“sun standing still,”
or relatively consistent length of day) as a 12-day period?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what about that temperature?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zero Celsius is the temperature at which
fresh water freezes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you know that
zero Fahrenheit is the freezing temperature for the saltiest water Mr. Fahrenheit
tested?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why, of course, salt on
your sidewalks or roads won’t work today—the water refreezes, no matter what
salt concentration you use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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All of this is due to what is described as a massive “polar
vortex,” or shift of very cold air normally kept in northern Canada and Alaska,
now affecting large areas of the “lower 48” US states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Satellite image of storm and vortex behavior, ~January 3.</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Image from NASA, via BBC.</span></td></tr>
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The temperatures as a result are some of the coldest in recorded history here, approaching levels not seen in Indiana since the 1940s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is on top of a massive snowstorm (not
quite a blizzard, since that term is reserved for winds over 35 mph along with
heavy snow totals or rates of snowfall, which we didn’t quite get) that has
left about 10 inches of snow outside my front door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, fairly extreme weather.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Extreme US weather warnings, Jan 5.</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Magenta references winter storm or blizzard warnings; cyan references wind chill warnings.</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">Image from NOAA.</span></td></tr>
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As severe as this weather is, imagine a world of 50 or 100
years ago or more, where long-range forecasts and telecommunications advising
residents and travelers of “extreme threats” to life were not available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of the responses I have to people
who say that NASA and STEM aren’t relevant to their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satellite images, computer models, satellite
transmission of news broadcasts, and maybe even the emergency blankets and
improved battery technologies in your home or car, are all due to the
technological advances inspired by the missions to the Moon in the 1960s.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was actually those missions that were the original
intention of my blog entry, before this weekend’s storm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over Christmas, with family and friends
sharing warmth and companionship, I teared up over two items: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">the closing scene of It’s a Wonderful Life, with
the family and neighbors in the house, and George Bailey’s younger brother
raising a toast to “the richest man in town”;</span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">the broadcast of the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve
broadcast in 1968, wishing peace and a good night to “all the people on the
Good Earth”.</span></li>
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The picture, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Earthrise</i>,
from Apollo 8 taken by the crew (including Indiana native, Frank Borman) is now
considered one of the most important photographs ever taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">“Earthrise,” NASA photo AS8-14-2383.</span></td></tr>
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These photos are the first to give us a new perspective on
the Earth, its relative tininess and fragility, and how the natural events and
processes of the Earth affect us profoundly (as we have learned this weekend,
and continue to learn and experience).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s that Christmas Eve event in 1968 that drove me to study engineering, and
seek out a career path with NASA research, and eventually take on this role
with INSGC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p>In honor of the 45<sup>th</sup> anniversary of this event, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-vOscpiNc">NASA released a video</a> showing images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reproducing what the Apollo 8 crew would have experienced while maneuvering the spacecraft and viewing the lunar surface and the Earth in the moments before and during the taking of the photograph.</div>
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So, from December 25, to January 6, NASA and INSGC remain
very strongly on my mind and in my awareness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once we get back to work, we’ll be continuing to assist those interested
in applying for our INSGC program awards and scholarships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m very pleased to note that INSGC has
already received funding for the 2014-15 program year starting in May, so our
awards process will be continuing on schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was thrilled to have the opportunity to talk a little about INSGC on
our local public radio station, WBAA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The interview was broadcast last week on December 30, (the “six geese
a-laying” day, I believe), and you can <a href="http://wbaa.org/post/indiana-space-grant-consortium-funding-stem-projects">read
and hear it here</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Be careful, stay warm and sheltered, and my continued good
wishes to you during our extended winter holiday.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Welcome to the educational (and a bit irreverent)
explorations of <a href="http://www.doktorkaboom.com/">Doktor Kaboom!’s</a>
“It’s JUST Rocket Science” show. I was
pleased that INSGC could provide sponsorship for the show, which promised to be
a fun and accessible introduction to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
(STEM) education for K-12 audiences. But
the messages were even more powerful than that.
It’s a bit of comedy, it’s definitely science, and we even saw a rocket (made
of 2 liter soda bottles) launch into the balcony of Loeb Hall, using nothing
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In the
persona of a German scientist, Doktor Kaboom discussed Newton’s Laws, and the
essential processes of science (it’s not about calculations and operations, but
curiosity and observation), and the importance of safe laboratory techniques
(practiced with an <b><i>intelligent</i></b> adult)… as well as a lesson or two in self esteem
and confidence in the face of subjects that most of us are taught to be scared
and ineffective.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doktor Kaboom prepares CRAIG OF SCIENCE for rocket propulsion.</td></tr>
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“When I ask you if you are a smart young man/woman, say
YAH!” Why is it that we teach our
children to devalue their own skills in mathematics and science? Why do we relegate fundamental skills to
those strange and magical people who are “good at math,” and claim that the
rest of us can’t do it, and can’t do anything about it? Science isn’t hard. It just takes effort. You may not get it right the first time. That’s okay.
Most of us do science all the time.
Some of the best audience participation of the show came from a “math
trick” that Doktor Kaboom showed: how to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrHUUWtsbE">multiply any two-digit
number by 11</a>, faster than using a calculator. It’s
not cheating, it’s not magic. It’s a
tool. In general, he explained, math is
not just about numbers, any more than literature is just about letters. Math is about patterns. Numbers are just an alphabet we use. (I will admit that it was at exactly that
point that I became a confirmed fan of Doktor Kaboom. I’ve tried to say the same thing. But he’s funnier.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Steal this video!
Yes, the good Doktor put in a plug for <a href="http://www.doktorkaboom.com/shop_detail.php?id=1">his DVD, “<s>Don’t</s>
Try this at Home!”</a> Yes, you can get it in the lobby. Yes, it’s available on the website. But enough people buy it to make him happy
(and keep him in safety goggles). “If
you make unauthorized copies of it… I don’t care!” In other words, the message of getting kids
(and their parents) turned on to, and more comfortable with, and more capable
in, science is his real mission. It’s
not very often that you hear any scientist’s or engineer’s passion come through
so clearly, so void of self-interest, so focused on what is needed in our
society to make society (and not just that individual scientist or engineer)
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I cannot thank enough the Ann Broughton and the students of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PurdueSpaceDay?ref=stream">Purdue Space Day</a>
for helping out with stomp rockets and balloon rocket cars and planispheres and
just lots of kid-focus STEM fun. Even
Doktor Kaboom remarked on how special this was, leaving us with a memorable
day, and a very successful hands-on pre-show activity. It was memorable in several ways: one budding
rocket scientist managed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151973458832850&set=pcb.10151973460447850&type=1&theater">to
lodge a rocket in one of the Loeb lobby clocks</a>. Great fun, and the rocket remained there for
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Don’t underestimate how much a bit of inspiration can
do. I can still credit my visits to the
Franklin Institute, and the impact of my elementary and middle school teachers,
in helping me to believe that maybe I could become a real rocket
scientist. And I did. One of those kids in the Doktor Kaboom / Purdue Space Day
audience may grow up, go to college, and become the Purdue Space Day
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purdue Space Day Exec Board members help bring rocket science to kids before the Doktor Kaboom show.</td></tr>
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Clare and Craig of Science may
become real researchers someday. The
first thing we need to do is give them the opportunity and encouragement to
try. The second is to stop telling them
that it’s not for them. Science is
everywhere. Everyone uses it, and
everyone needs it. If we forget this, as
Doktor Kaboom said, we’ll be lost and at the mercy of those in other countries
who do understand and value science and math, creativity and
investigation. But wait. That’s not funny. That’s not a message for a kids’ show. Or is it?
Those kids in the audience—they had parents, aunts and uncles,
grandparents, friends’ parents, and those people have an impact. No eight year old can say, based only on
their own experience, that girls can’t grow up to be astronauts, or that it’s
too hard for boys to sit still and behave long enough to learn their math
facts. Someone taught them that, and
someone can teach them that it’s wrong.
We don’t even need to wait as long as the <a href="http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-07/new-york-times-nasa-youre-right-rockets-do-work-space">New
York <i>Times</i> did to retract its
editorial denouncing Robert Goddard’s beliefs that rockets don’t push against
the atmosphere</a>, but eject gas under pressure (another important lesson
Kaboom highlighted… using a paint can, a bit of water, and a heater)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Listening to him talk about both the science and the social systems of space travel, I recognized an unavoidable element: this is what incessant curiosity and indefatigable passion can do, and be. I could go on about the Cyclers, but he was extremely elegant and supportive to say that a Purdue AAE grad student had extended, and even improved upon, his longstanding work. (High praise indeed.) He bowed to and acknowledged Jim Longuski, with whom he's collaborated for 25 years (and who helps others learn to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Longuski/e/B001JRRKTC" target="_blank">Think Like a Rocket Scientist</a>). He talked about STEM Education, and the role of STEM as being valuable for everyone on Earth. It's not just that I grew up wanting to be like Buzz Aldrin. It's that I felt that Dr. Aldrin was now speaking to a shared passion, and a recognition of what is needed for the future. </div>
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Afterwards, he stayed to sign the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mission-Mars-Vision-Space-Exploration/dp/1426210175/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382483841&sr=1-1&keywords=aldrin+mission+to+mars" target="_blank">Mission to Mars</a> books. He signed them all. This is not to be ignored. Over 800 books were sold at Purdue, and others attending the lecture brought their copies as well. Past 11:00, he was still signing books, with kind words and gestures and jokes with the attendees. ("He told me he liked my sweater!") I stayed around for a while just to watch the happy faces and renewed enthusiasm from the folks as they emerged from the signing area in the Purdue Memorial Union. That was feeding enough for me. (It also helped that I had already been gifted with a signed copy of the book. Thanks, <a href="http://www.tedxpurdueu.com/speakers/michael-zwach/" target="_blank">Mike</a>. You've done pretty well already as an INSGC alumnus, talking about the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dU3TvNGWuc" target="_blank">future of spaceflight and space operations</a>.) </div>
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This morning, I made some people happy. Because INSGC was one of the sponsors of the
Neil DeGrasse Tyson lecture on September 19 (see other stories, this issue), I
was (unexpectedly) provided with some additional tickets for the lecture. Two members of the staff in my IE department
had asked if I might be able to find them a seat, and I brought them the
tickets this morning. What pleased and
enthused me the most is the level of excitement and pleasure they demonstrated
when receiving the tickets. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a great example of the positive experience that we
at INSGC can bring to others when we support opportunities for STEM
engagement. As I have previously
mentioned in my Director’s Blog (<a href="http://insgc-bc.blogspot.com/2013/08/locally-grown.html">http://insgc-bc.blogspot.com/2013/08/locally-grown.html</a>),
the challenge may in fact be to identify what do our customers / prospective
partners / students want to learn, do, or share. Sometimes it is about going out to them;
other times, it’s bringing them in to help us understand what excites them. One INSGC-led project is attempting to take
this approach within the context of a “research experiences for teachers”
project. Research (to me) is a grand
exploration and scouting process. There
is a process of providing information about facts and formulae and functions,
but real research is not just about piling those facts up. It’s about having tools to go out and solve
problems, and make sense of a context that you didn’t previously understand…
perhaps a context no one has previously understood. The process of education is not a passive
one, as most inspired (and inspiring) teachers will tell you. In my research group’s blog (<a href="http://grouperlab.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/eaten-up-with-curiosity/">http://grouperlab.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/eaten-up-with-curiosity/</a>)
, I recently wrote about being “eaten up with curiosity,” as Rudyard Kipling
described Rikki-Tikki the mongoose. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, what does that sort of experience look like—the
well-informed, effectively-engaged, continuously curious citizen as
researcher? Well, we have a historical
grand exploration and scouting process, which set out from Indiana
(Clarksville) in October 1803: The Corps of Discovery, led by Lewis and
Clark. Now, you would never send out
people into the vast unexplored wilderness unprovisioned. For the Corps, it was medicine and gunpowder
and cartography equipment and notebooks: things to go exploring, and make notes,
and bring back descriptions of what you found.
For an informed, engaged person, the provisions of research are equally
important: analysis skills, mathematical techniques, understanding of physical
properties and laws. But no one would
confuse the provisions for the expedition.
They are simply tools to allow you to do a better job exploring. What’s out there? What do we want to know? How do we bring that experience back to
others? That’s a bit harder, especially
when the territory is vast and your experience is greatly limited. (There’s an ocean out there, or some magical
destination that may or may not really exist.
Even after the Corps returned, it was hard for most people to believe
things like the Badlands, or the Rockies, or the herds of bison, really existed—the
explorers had experienced things far outside of the previous experience of
those in the United States in 1806.) And
this is always a challenge of the researcher.
How do you share what you’ve seen and learned with others?<o:p></o:p></div>
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That is one way that I appreciate and enjoy Dr. Tyson: he
engages people to do the exploration that they can, and he provides them with
provisions to do more exploration if they choose. The stories are accessible, and interesting,
and entertainingly presented. And it
helps that stars are visible to lots of us, and we want to tell stories about
them. But Dr. Tyson doesn’t just
entertain. His informative examples are
also powerful tools and provisions, useful for a journey of discovery. I have come to see how vitally important it
is to find out which exploration journey a person wants to take, and provision
them for that journey, as well as other potential journeys and side trips not
yet envisioned. (One challenge that a high
school teacher has, that I don’t have in my university lectures, is that I can
make a better guess as to the range of journeys that an Industrial Engineering
undergrad will be ready to take after I have tried to provision them with
project design or statistics. It’s still
a pretty large range of journeys, so I better make sure my provisions will
last, and they don’t leak away or rot over the years to come.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love the process of exploration. Through my career I have noted that more
information, about more subjects, means more provisions that help me discover
and document and describe more about those territories I encounter along the
way. Sometimes the information is
challenging and new, but that’s okay.
Skis and snowshoes don’t seem to be that useful along the Ohio River in
September and October, but I can be glad to acquire them along the way to North
Dakota, or learn how to make them when I need them. If it is our job to teach the excitement of
exploration, and not just the excitement <b>a specific person</b> has for <b>a specific subject</b>, there is
an added responsibility to learn about a variety of journeys, and get people
ready and well-provisioned for those.
I’m pleased that INSGC is able to help with West Lafayette events this
fall that excite and engage both kids (Dr. Kaboom, Purdue Space Day) and adults
(Dr. Tyson and other general public visits by astronauts). A broad set of offerings provides our
audiences with a range of information and a span of topics that increase the
value for more people, regardless of their area of interest. In other words, a rich stock of provisions
for a explorers set off on a variety of journeys of discovery and
experience. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-36179791228884490192013-08-16T17:36:00.001-04:002013-08-16T17:36:46.464-04:00Locally Grown
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We don’t sell
yesterday’s corn! ... Our green wagons show up at familiar locations, picked
that morning…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last weekend was
beautiful in northern Indiana. In fact,
Friday and Saturday were the sorts of days that local festival organizers
dream, and hope, and pray for all year.
Sunny weather, light breezes, glorious blue skies and 75 degrees. (We might get lucky again this weekend!) Lovely days, of course, to consider STEM
engagement in small Indiana towns—not the Purdue Day experience at the Indiana
State Fair last Friday, but a much more local experience. For instance, elephant ears are a popular
dough pastry, but there seems to be something more… essential… for those who
lined up at Old Settler Days in Delphi, gathered around the courthouse
square. It’s not just the subject, but
the context and application, that matters for those few days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Part of this
lesson came from an unexpected discussion I had with Vic Lechtenberg over
lunch. (Vic had to leave lunch early, as
it turns out, specifically to go down to Indianapolis for the Purdue Day BBQ at
the State Fair.) After many years at
Purdue as a professor studying crops, and as Dean of Agriculture, Vice Provost
for Engagement, Acting Provost… Vic
connects to people well about the applications of his work. We were talking about sweet corn (another
staple at these local festivals), and why Indiana folks rave about how their
corn is better and sweeter than anyone else’s.
Funny, I mentioned, folks in Wisconsin used to say the same thing at
their sweet corn festivals. Vic then
explained the science behind this feeling, and the appeal of the green
wagons. The enzymatic reaction in corn
that turns sugar to starch means that tasty, succulent eating corn doesn’t
travel well. Locally grown, freshly
picked, tastes the best.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was in that
moment that I realized why I think the A in Agriculture is different from the
other letters in STEM. Agriculture is a
beautiful way of connecting science and technology, engineering and math, in
ways that people care locally. Normally,
I don’t think much about enzymes or sucrose decomposition reactions, the stuff
of organic chemistry. But how can I
think about sweet corn anymore, or the signs I see by the roadside, without
thinking about Vic and his focused explanation in ways that mattered?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And in that
thought was a seed (pardon the pun).
What’s the difference between trying to get someone to be excited about your
interest, and trying to get them excited about how your interest links to <b>their</b>
interest? An abstracted discussion about
advances in manufacturing seems remote and dry.
However, I got to spend a few minutes at the cruise-in a few blocks from
the Taste of Cass festival in Logansport. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Taste of Cass Festival, Downtown Logansport</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">One very proud
owner showed off their 1925 Indiana Motor Truck, made in Marion—even providing
a brief history of the company. Across
the way sat a 1955 Studebaker. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Restored 1925 Indiana Motor Truck, Logansport Cruise</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indiana Truck Owner's partial history of the company</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1955 Studebaker... Looks like it just came from the South Bend factory.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although they
weren’t at the cruise, Auburns, Stutzes, Subarus, Toyota have all been made in
Indiana, all representing milestones in manufacturing. What cars will be at the cruise-in during
Logansport’s 200<sup>th</sup> or 225<sup>th</sup> anniversary (and I wish them
the very best in achieving those milestones), and what stories will people
tell? Will anyone have the sense to
listen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Round barns were
a technological and engineering marvel in the 19<sup>th</sup> Century. Space for storage, and showing, and efficient
use of materials. There are two notable
round barns in Rochester. One is the
Round Barn golf course, at what used to be a fish hatchery. (“We didn’t have to create the water hazards,
they were already here!”) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I didn’t know
this when I first stopped in to ask about greens fees, but the conversation
brought me back to a challenge at a STEM Action Coalition meeting to show
whether NASA had anything to do with fish hatcheries. I could immediately make the connection to
tilapia and enclosed life support systems; geographic information and water
quality; and ecological models of system dynamics, including mathematical
descriptions of stability and resilience.
I’d just finished writing a paper on resilience that the folks in the
golf course might not care about… but they would get a discussion about keeping
a lake stocked with healthy fish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For many
aerospace geeks, there are a few names on the pantheon of people whose names
are not just aerospace history icons, but whose names represent iconic
companies. Curtiss. Douglas. Hughes. Wright.
School children know that Wilbur was born in Indiana. But do we even remember that another of that
pantheon was born in Indiana as well?
Lawrence Bell has a small museum in his hometown of Mentone, the Egg
Basket of the Midwest. Who is Bell? Ask anyone in helicopters about the Bell UH
series (“Hueys”). Or anyone from the
Right Stuff era. Chuck Yeager’s <i>Glamorous Glennis</i>, in bright orange,
breaking the speed of sound over the California desert… the Bell X-1. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bell Aircraft Museum... It wasn't Sunday.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sadly, I’ve not
been in the museum. It’s only open for a
few hours per week, on Sunday afternoons.
It’s a small group of devoted volunteers, trying to keep an important
memory alive in a warehouse across from the silos and animal feed office, just
off Indiana 25. Mentone’s egg festival
is in late May, not August, but any weekend will do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-19194395676047443722013-07-12T15:42:00.000-04:002013-07-12T15:42:27.534-04:00Summer, Yes. Lazy, Not So Much.It's a beautiful day in West Lafayette today. Brilliant blue skies, temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s. Sounds like a perfect day for a low-stress staff meeting called at 11:00, with the Director to suggest taking the rest of the day off? Unfortunately, that is not INSGC this week. (I did play golf yesterday, in between statistics class lecture notes and NASA site logins and reviews of project reports.) <br />
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The activities that we discussed today are being repeated 52 times across the country, and they're summarized with another NFLA (NASA Four Letter Acronym) known as OEPM (Office of Education Performance Measurement, if you must know). How do we enter these program measures and costs? Which way do we enter the student data? What can we provide in a secure way, given the time available and workload required? Imagine my readiness for full-scale panic this morning when it seemed that data had gone missing... but no, it was a challenge in accessing the data using the right combination of key clicks. Scary, and a reminder of the various ways that the process could go wrong and place us in noncompliance.<br />
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Even in my most humorous moods, I can't laugh away this last point. Noncompliance with a federal grant requirement, or violations of contractual fiscal obligations, is a really big, nasty deal. This was not something that I spent lots of time worrying about in grad school, or while getting tenure. (For clarity, I am not talking about research ethics or fraud or stowing away leftover grant funds for a fishing trip to Antigua. All of those are clearly wrong, and we did talk about why those things were really bad for the individual, and the institution and profession as a whole.) Over the 10 years that I've been INSGC Director, my biggest summer worry most years has been about making the budgets (including that mysterious "cost share") balance against costs, and exceed the promised commitment to NASA. (Yes, it's that important. A grant proposal with a promised cost share amount is considered a legal commitment by the institution to spend that amount of money that won't be charged to the grant. It's not just a good idea. It's the law.) <br />
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So, today's meeting included a lot of "What's still outstanding?" "What do we do with those numbers?" "When do we finalize the report to send off to Headquarters?" (Officially, the due date is July 19--next Friday. We're aiming for Wednesday, July 17. Overachievers? No, just paranoid and worried that something might go wrong and... put us in noncompliance.) This is not fun, but it is enough to justify the hours being spent by both Ellie and Julie, our summer interns, checking and entering and staying in close communication with Angie and Dr. Dawn. Hey, BC! Here's why we're going to talk you out of doing what you just said you wanted us to do! (A task that is easy when set up one way becomes profoundly difficult when done another way. Ironically, that's part of what I look at as a human factors engineer, but that's an issue for another day and another blog.) <br />
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Once we're done with OEPM, the work's not done. I will be in Indianapolis multiple times talking about and working with others on a "STEM Engagement Umbrella": we've got a lot of wonderful outreach activities underway at our museums, science centers, and college campuses. However, it's a real challenge just to find out what's going on in STEM here at Purdue this week, let alone around the state. <br />
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(How many of you knew that this year is the <a href="http://indianalincolnhighway.org/" target="_blank">100th anniversary of the Lincoln Highway</a>, the first <a href="http://indianalincolnhighway.org/?page_id=2" target="_blank">national route system designed and built explicitly for auto traffic</a>? This highway, now described in large part by the <a href="http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/info/in/" target="_blank">US 20, US 30, US 33, and 933 route designations through towns from Ft. Wayne to Merrillville</a>, is part of how Indiana developed as part of the automobile nexus of the US before 1930. Indiana was also part of the National Road system, implemented a century earlier, through Richmond, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, and other towns in the central part of the state. In other words, the history of transportation technology and civil engineering created the layout and population centers of the state known as the Crossroads of America. If that isn't STEM affecting your life, I don't know what is.) <br />
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Those in education policy need to focus on criteria for evaluating how well programs meet state education standards. I just want to highlight how much STEM affects all of us in Indiana every day, and help engage that understanding on a more consistent and effective basis. Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-45691917300832309832013-05-14T21:51:00.000-04:002013-05-14T21:51:01.843-04:00Welcome Home, Commander HadfieldIt was time for the next blog entry, and I was thinking about all sorts of things to say about STEM Engagement, and ways to remind people of the challenge and value and wonder of space travel and exploration of all kinds. But, this evening, a friend of mine insisted I watch Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity video on YouTube:<br />
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Nothing more to say.<br />
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Thank you, Commander Hadfield, and a melancholy welcome back to Earth.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/13/astronaut_chris_hadfield_returns_to_earth.html">http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/05/13/astronaut_chris_hadfield_returns_to_earth.html</a>Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-55904087988836983162013-04-16T19:13:00.000-04:002013-04-16T19:13:43.741-04:00Up, Down, Top, Bottom, and a bit of Strange
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Affiliates Meetings are important. I already knew that, and no matter how much
we try to guess what may or may not be on the agenda, something critical always
comes up for discussion among our Academic and Outreach Affiliates each
April. Let me say that this year’s
meeting on April 12 (yes, <a href="http://yurisnight.net/#/home">Yuri’s Night</a>)
at Ball State was a challenge for me, just from a physical standpoint. I’d only slept one night in my own house this
month, after weeks of substantial travel beginning with the National Space
Grant Directors’ Meeting in Washington.
Where did my body think it was … Shanghai? Seattle?
No matter what, it’s time to get up and start the day’s activity in
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At one point during the day, we discussed an unfortunate
element of life in bureaucratic organizations: “conservation of meetings”. No matter what, it seems that meetings expand
to fill the time allotted, even if nothing important is being discussed. I don’t like those meetings, and because I
appreciate the commitment and dedication of our Affiliates and Board Members, I
try to make sure we don’t have them.
With Indiana Space Grant Consortium (INSGC) business, that’s not
hard. As you can see, the Affiliates even want to
work through lunch, discussing INSGC stuff, and connecting with each other.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course, the first criterion important to avoid those
meetings is to ensure we all understand <b>why are we meeting?</b> There are frequently operational details that
we can cover at a meeting, and update elements, such as our award
announcements. However, as Angie
Verissimo, our Operations Coordinator, frequently reminds me, there are <i>lots</i> of operational details included in
sending out scholarship offers or initial program awards. Spending time in the bottom-level details is
not always the best use of time in our meetings, but it is important for people
to know that these details are being addressed.
So, we did make some “First Award” selections of some of our 2013-14
INSGC portfolio. (Details of those
awards will be presented here soon, after the students and investigators have
been informed.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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The top-down view of awards, however, was also an issue of
considerable concern among our affiliates.
The national news isn’t good.
Problems in federal funding.
Congressional concerns and surveillance on program activity. Cascading effects of The Sequester (perhaps a
monster from some late night horror movie?) restricting agency expenses. Fortunately, these problems aren’t affecting
INSGC right now (sequestration decisions are directed at employees, not our
INSGC award), but as we discussed, we must not ignore these broader concerns as
we work to create the best INSGC possible in the future as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How do we do this?
Among our discussions during the day was an examination of what we
expect affiliates to be and do, including expectations for what it means for an
affiliate to remain in good standing.
Years ago, we put together processes and expectations for how to <b><i>become</i></b>
an affiliate (voting up)… but the
concerns in 2006 were not about confirming criteria for whether someone could <b><i>remain</i></b>
an affiliate (voting down). A working
group including Academic Affiliate, Advisory Board, and Outreach Affiliate
participants will be working on this important task over the coming
months. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We also discussed how we create and maintain INSGC in the
context of the recent headline news stories about a <a href="http://www.gao.gov/duplication">GAO report highlighting duplication of
programs and waste</a>, including how multiple <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/04/09/wasteful-government-spending/2063511/">STEM
education programs might be consolidated across agencies</a>. In this context, it’s interesting to talk
about INSGC as a prototype for a multi-agency, multi-domain affiliate
network. The emphasis here is to
highlight our capabilities in an expanded context—across STEM disciplines. There is an importance that our partners see
us as part of a broader engagement of STEM education and applications. One
participant mentioned that we can expand this scope, and not even change our
acronym—we can be the Indiana STEM Grant Consortium! <o:p></o:p></div>
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But wait, some might ask (and some did, at the Affiliates
Meeting). Doesn’t “Space Grant” limit
what we focus on in terms of STEM? You
know, the aviation technology, the astronauts, the astronomy, the satellite
dynamics? That’s what gets funded by
INSGC! Well, I suppose that some of that
is a reminder of the old story about the blind men and the elephant. If you’re a particle physicist, for example,
you think a lot about particle physics, and you notice particle physics
applications, and you even pick up particle physics references in the general
world. (Come on, admit it. You all saw the title of this entry and
thought about quarks. It’s okay. I wanted you to.) But in our annual performance data report,
INSGC reported on projects for enzyme reduction for biology applications, and
nanotechnology camps for K-12 students and their teachers, and a course on
groundwater analysis and modeling. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the concerns that became clear is that there is a lot
of worry that, in some future INSGC funded by the Smithsonian or NSF to address
some expansive view of STEM engagement, everyone would be asked to juggle all
of those balls, recognize all of those features, and do all of those tasks. In other words, “I can’t wrap my head around
all of that stuff.” Well, I don’t think
that everyone needs to do that. When I
went in for shoulder surgery, I was glad my surgeon spent most of his time
focusing on tendons and supraspinatus muscles and those details. When the aircraft is descending through
storms, I’m glad my pilot is devoting attention to Doppler radar and flight
management systems and airspeed indicators.
You want people to work the details of their specialty. But it’s also valuable to have a broad view,
looking forward. What if we helped with undergraduate student retention? What if we helped support a new framework for
K-12 preservice teacher apprenticeships in science museums? What if we did motorsports? Actually, we’re involved in all of
these—something that we discussed as Engagement for Execution. Perhaps it requires someone a bit strange to
want to connect all of that. But as this
picture indicates, maybe I’m the right kind of strange… or at least different.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming soon, a brief description of the range of student
project and program awards (and student majors) we fund at INSGC. This description is not just for those other
people. It’s to help us remember how
broad we already are, and how many people we can touch around the state. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As I start this entry, the National Space Grant Directors’
meeting is beginning in Washington, DC.
However, I’m on a plane from Indianapolis to Atlanta, not due to arrive
at the meeting until approximately 6:00 tonight. What’s going on?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the course of February, we at INSGC have scheduled
visits with seven of our nine Congressional representative offices—not in the
House Office buildings on Capitol Hill, but in the home district offices. Normally, an educational visit on Capitol Hill
(civics lesson alert) is approximately 10-15 minutes with a staff
representative of that House member.
There are people in front of you, and people waiting after you
leave. Sometimes, the “staffer” is from
the state; sometimes not. In any case,
you’ve got to be able to speak very directly and with focus on a specific
point. The staffer takes notes, and
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But, what happened when this year? I’ve made it to Danville and Bloomington and
Mishiwaka and Indianapolis (twice) and Terre Haute… and learned a lot. Most of the meetings have been with district
directors; twice I’ve met with the House members themselves. These people are very tuned in to the local
elements of STEM Education in their district—retention among underrepresented
males; the need for content and expertise to support a local school planetarium
center; the role of internships in workforce development. These meetings have frequently been 30-45
minutes, or even more. And in so doing,
I’ve re-learned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_politics_is_local">an
important lesson famously spoken</a> by another House member, <a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=o000098">Thomas
“Tip” O’Neill</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m an engineering professor and researcher, not a policy
wonk. I can’t even keep straight which
political party is supposed to be red or blue.
(This is true—I needed two election cycles and a mnemonic to get it
right.) But, it is evident that STEM is
a local issue. I have heard the topic
raised throughout the state, in a variety of contexts. Schools.
Training programs. Replacing old
manufacturing jobs. I took a tour of a
new aluminum production facility yesterday, where one of the nation’s largest
extrusion presses is being installed.
What sorts of employees need to be hired there? Technical skill sets, maybe not a four-year
engineering degree, but competence with programmable logic controllers and the
algebra and materials science to understand quench rates and weight per linear
foot and requirements for self-monitoring, “quality circle” work
environments. That’s not old-school
unskilled labor, either. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And so, I’m late to DC because I spent much of Thursday
morning participating in an Indiana STEM Action Coalition for Today (I-STEM
ACT) “leadership workshop” at the Project Lead the Way national headquarters
located in Indianapolis. I now have a
list of those STEM disciplines highlighted by the Commission on Higher Education
that are tied to Indiana economic growth and focus. Interestingly, the presenter was asking
whether or not this was useful to the attendees. I said that yes, it’s very good to highlight
“This is what STEM means and highlights in Indiana… and it’s all relevant to
NASA.” Well, what about fisheries, the
presenter quipped. As it turns out, I
was part of the <a href="http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/alsnscort/">NASA NSCORT on
Advanced Life Support at Purdue</a> about a decade ago, and one of the research
projects was about fish as part of a sustainable recycling and life support
system for long-duration spaceflight.
Fisheries help us talk about systems engineering, and carbon balances,
and energy conversion, and oxygen cycles—all things of critical importance to
NASA’s Human Research Program (looking at human spaceflight) and Science
Mission Directorate (examining Earth’s climate and ecosystems). So, yes, even fisheries. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #131313; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><b><i>“The pessimist complains about the
wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” -- William Arthur Ward</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Given the weather right now (it’s about 10 degrees F in
Lafayette), the “winds and sails” reference above may be more appropriate to
ice sailing, but the overall quote is something that I strongly resonate with
regarding Space Grant. Over the past
four years, we have gone from projections of tremendous long-term success to
lamentations of unavoidable doom, based on funding levels, attitudes in
Congress, or organizational dynamics in NASA Headquarters. Perhaps one advantage I have is that INSGC
has been, for my entire time as Director, in some sort of flux—there’s no gilded
past to try to return to, and no sense of perpetual darkness. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This attitude is especially visible to me now as we consider
the completion of the 2012-13 program year, the <a href="https://engineering.purdue.edu/INSGC/competition_files/Funding_Opportunities">2013-14
scholarship and program awards competition</a>, and our recent STEM Innovative
Pilot proposals on undergraduate student retention and K-12 pre-service teacher
training. These all reflect our changing
Space Grant environments, and my hope as your Director is to keep INSGC well
positioned to address the challenges of NASA’s role in STEM Education, and the
local context of Engaging STEM Education in Indiana.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are two initiatives that I am especially pleased that
INSGC has been involved and invited to participate, both directly related to
our focus on Engaging STEM Education in Indiana. Beginning last fall, a group of industry,
education, and non-profits sat down to determine how Indiana can make more
progress in STEM Education. One result
of this discussion is the creation of the Indiana STEM Action Coalition for
Today (Indiana STEM ACT). I do look
forward to INSGC participation in the areas of STEM strategies and programs,
and information and mentoring on STEM careers.
These are things we are expected to do as part of our NASA mission. A related activity, which also links to
Purdue’s role as a land grant institution, involves potential participation in <a href="http://techpointyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/RFP-TPF4Y-Final-November-2012.pdf">STEM
Collaboratory development</a>—a “STEM Mall,” if you will, with afterschool
programs, tutorials, and “artisan labs”
where students can work on robotics or other projects. I can almost see a 21<sup>st</sup> Century
version of the Ag Extension Service and 4-H.
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As our affiliates are considering participation and project
development for our awards cycle, I can point out several important elements
for this year. One piece of positive
news is that, since our 2013-14 funds are already in place from NASA, summer 2013
project activities beginning after May 17 can be effectively set up and
executed. I have to remind all proposers
that we are strongly directed and encouraged by NASA to demonstrate extensive
and increasing levels of cost-effectiveness in addressing Space Grant
priorities and INSGC SMART Objectives.
As you read through the guidelines (which have changed since last year),
please highlight how your project links to the SMART Objectives, with a
particular emphasis on how funds will be used, and what are the measurable
outcomes that you will track, should your project be supported. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We simply do not have the funds, or organizational climate,
to allow us to continue to do the projects we did five years ago, the same way
we did them. Even if the program was successful
then, NASA Headquarters has been explicit in saying that we must demonstrate
innovation and increasing reach and touch.
For these reasons (as well as the fluctuating budget levels), we cannot
continue our prior model of “Consortium Priorities”. Does this mean that INSGC will no longer
support robotics, or astronomy, or K-12 programs? Of course not. However, we must clearly demonstrate in a
competitive context how those programs address current program needs, with modest
dollars, to achieve important goals, in a very dynamic environment. Sponsored Programs requires more specification of activity and budget and periods of work; NASA requires more demonstration of "costs per person served". We ignore those realities at our peril.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am thrilled that INSGC is well positioned to respond to
some of these changes, with our collection of outreach affiliates and a range
of academic institutions. We are small
and large, public and private, comprehensive and specific. Some of our programs are local and
community-oriented; others are of national and international prominence. While others are crying out how horrible the
current environment may be, or demanding a return to some idyll, INSGC
continues to adjust and tack and progress. <o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-73489220374976734172012-12-19T14:54:00.001-05:002012-12-19T14:54:32.781-05:00Launch ConfirmationForty years ago this month, Apollo 17 began the last ("most recent") human mission to the moon with a nighttime launch from Cape Kennedy. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apollo 17 launches from Kennedy Space Center, December 7, 1972, 12:33 AM. Photo courtesy NASA.</td></tr>
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Purdue alumnus Gene Cernan was on board, and helped further reinforce Purdue's place in aerospace history as the last man to walk on the moon. It would be great fun to just talk about that, but let me focus a bit more on the launch part. Why was the launch scheduled for just after midnight? Was it the brilliant illumination opportunities? Hitting a particular news cycle? No. It's orbital mechanics. In order to get the mission to the moon with the fuel and communications and life support and other technologies available, engineers have to calculate very precisely when you *must go* for launch. We call it the "launch window". Miss the window, and you don't go. Very simple.<br />
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We've had a few launch windows here at INSGC the past couple of weeks, the most recent regarding two major grant proposal activities. Both proposals were in response to the NASA Space Grant Innovative STEM Pilot call--one for undergraduate student retention, and one for pre-service teacher training. Both projects are two year, $500,000 awards, and NASA insisted on projects that involved a strong cohort of students that remained involved throughout the two-year project period. The proposals were due on Friday, December 14 (after a "slip" from December 7). Miss that window, and we lose the opportunity to compete for those funds. (I apologize to all those friends whom I forgot to wish a Happy Hannukah--things got kind of busy that week.) <br />
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I want to express my appreciation for the enthusiastic and active participation of the the INSGC affiliates as we worked on both proposals (nicknamed "SKATE" for the pre-service teachers, and "SURE" for the undergraduate retention). We have solicited, and continue to receive, input from an overwhelming majority of our academic and outreach affiliates--these are truly statewide, collaborative initiatives reflecting the strengths and unique capabilities of the Indiana Space Grant Consortium. I remain excited and grateful for the supportive offerings and ongoing enthusiasm for the projects. In some ways, INSGC is working from a sense of service to the consortium as a whole--very little of the funding stays at our Purdue Space Grant Central offices for administration, but instead will be going to support K-12 programs, junior and senior education students, and frosh and sophomore STEM majors. (This is not unlike the weight ratio of an Apollo Saturn V rocket. Very little of the launch weight is actually the lunar module, command module, or astronauts--it's mostly fuel to attach lunar injection velocities.) <br />
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I'm thrilled to say that we met our launch windows--the two proposals were submitted at 5:00 on Friday afternoon. (Not quite as dark skies, not quite as brilliant launch flames, but still a sense of excitement, relief, and triumph.) I am glad for the commitment of both Angie Verissimo and Dr. Dawn Whitaker--assisting in bringing the pieces together when anyone else *would have been home in bed, sick* (actually, they had been home sick earlier that week, but roused themselves enough to complete the launch sequence on Thursday and Friday). With a team like that, the thrill of a successful launch is even more sweet. Let's hope for a great funding return next Spring.<br />
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At this point, it's time for a holiday break. We at the Indiana Space Grant Consortium office thank you for your participation, support, and unfailing enthusiasm for our STEM Engagement mission. We strive to be a vibrant Face of NASA in Indiana. But, time now for some well-deserved rest and recovery. So, we'll be closed for the end-of-year holidays, starting at 6:12 AM EST on Friday (The December Solstice, of course). We'll be back on January 3. Until then, a peaceful and quiet and enjoyable season to you all.<br />
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--Barrett CaldwellBarrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-4254898031835470302012-11-09T23:12:00.000-05:002012-11-09T23:15:42.600-05:00Moving towards Crunch Time<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This is the time of the semester where students and faculty
alike are frequently seen walking around college campuses with expressions
ranging from mild panic to steely-eyed determination (and maybe even some
nervous tics). Projects need to be
assigned and completed; exams are to be written, and taken, and graded. There is so much to be done, and not much
time before Thanksgiving to do it… and of course, barely any time passes after
Thanksgiving before it’s final exam time.
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With those thoughts in mind, and a few facial expressions of
my own, I am extremely glad and pleased for the two teleconferences we’ve had
this week with our Affiliate Directors and Advisory Board members. (Incidentally, I am pleased to welcome Kelly
Orr, and Angela Diaz, to the INSGC Advisory Board. Kelly works at Catepillar; Angela is at
Purdue’s Global Policy Research Institute.
Some of you may recognize Angela’s name from her time at NASA
Headquarters, including a stint in the Office of Education. She has an intimate knowledge of, and
longstanding history with, Space Grant.)
Even with the increasing intensity of the semester, we had nearly all of
our 18 Academic Affiliates deeply engaged in the Friday teleconference. This is in addition to the Wednesday
conference, focused on the 10 Outreach Affiliates. (Though a couple of Outreach folks missed
Wednesday due to conflicts, they did call in on Friday.) In itself, this is fairly remarkable. Over 80% of our affiliates were dialed in to
participate in the work of the Consortium, and made sure that Angie, Dawn and I
were busy with notepads from all the great comments brought to the
discussion. I am also highly encouraged
by the collaborative and generative style of the discussions as we did
something that, like laws and sausage, usually should not really be seen up
close. We were organizing strategies for
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Near the end of October, NASA announced a Cooperative
Agreement Notice (“CAN”) for Space Grant Consortia to propose projects in two
areas: <i>Undergraduate STEM Education</i>, and <i>Effective K-12 STEM Teacher Education</i>. Each
Consortium is allowed to submit at most two proposals, and the proposals must
be kept strictly separate. This is not
why we had two teleconferences—we moved to that model several years ago, when
we realized that too large a group, with too disparate a set of interests and
challenges, was not a recipe for an effective meeting. But it just so happens that the two project
areas linked well to both segments of our Affiliate interests—INSGC mission
emphases on Engage, and Educate, based on Inspiration, and working towards
Employment (as STEM workforce, or STEM educators). Both teleconference sessions worked well,
bringing together people who had very valuable suggestions and insights based
on their varied experience. I never
heard “my way or the highway” or “not invented here” statements; not only was
there clear synergy between the comments, but also a recognition that the
different affiliates have a diversity of capability and focus that is one of
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It was especially helpful when it was suggested that we
incorporate… hold on. I may be tired, but I’m not that
foolish. We’re not going to discuss the
proposal details in the blog. But I will
brag on the quality of the Affiliate Directors and the strong involvement that
is supporting these proposals. Yes, it’s
crunch time, with two large proposals due in mid-December. (Wow.
Could it be true that I actually have three additional grant proposals
due <b>before</b> the Space Grant CAN deadline? ) Well, maybe just a little bit of sleep might
be a good thing…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">We live in a culture of celebrity, one that idolizes fame and enables people to be famous for... being famous. But it's something else to talk about an historic figure--one that "will live in history after everyone in this room is long forgotten". Of course I thought I understood what it meant to be here, where </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">*he*</b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> went to school. I have the pictures in my head, and on my computer drive--him speaking to the crowd, framed by the statue of him as a student. A moment of silence at the football game, celebrated by the band where he was a member. A collection of memorabilia in the atrium of the building others insisted be named after him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">That was before I got the invitation to be part of the Purdue delegation to travel to Washington for Neil Armstrong's memorial service at the National Cathedral. I had teaching that day, and other meetings, but slowly it dawned on me. It's </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">*him*</b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">. So, on September 13, I got up, made sure the Purdue and INSGC lapel pins were in my jacket pocket, and went to the Purdue airport before dawn to get on a plane and fly to Dulles Airport. The experience was a surreal convocation. Even the weather in Washington was pristine--brilliant blue skies, wonderful sun, moderate temperatures, as if to say that even the air currents and storm fronts recognize the man. </span></div>
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I made sure I had my invitation in
hand, and it was important that I did.
Hundreds of people there, hundreds more wanting to be inside. We were welcomed into the front section--Acting
President Sands, Vice President Diaz, Engineering Dean Jamieson, historian
Norberg, student body president Rust, Trustee Spurgeon... I spoke a word of
greeting to NASA representative Alan Ladwig, whom I remembered from prior National
Space Grant meetings. "Glad you
could make it." I couldn't
understand why it was so important that we be there, although I was certainly
awed and honored to be.<br />
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Memorials for a head of state would do well to
match this event. And of course, other
NASA faces familiar to me from my childhood through my time as Space Grant
Director. There to honor a friend, an
icon, and one who brought back a piece of another world to hang in the very
windows of this Cathedral. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
common sentiment was an emphasis on an uncommonly humble and honest and
down-to-earth man--while being uncommonly noble, uncommonly able to bear an
unimaginable burden of history and the dreams and pride of a species. And what made him proud and grateful, all
that time?<br />
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<i>... being a
Purdue-trained engineer.<br />
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Any emotion in my heart, or my eyes,
froze as those words came from the dais.
The speaker mentioned Purdue. In
Indiana. Where I'm faculty, and do Space
Grant. This is the real legacy that I'm
witnessing here. And suddenly, it all
felt different. What can I do to justify
and continue Neil Armstrong's pride in this place? It's not about grand self-elevation. It's not really even about me. There is this great web, on this little blue
marble, that he could hide behind his thumb.
But in that moment, I could see a bit clearer what it might feel like to
know one's purpose, and feel a bit more at peace with it, with a hope to manage
whatever legacy and connection I might achieve with a fraction of the grace he
did.<br />
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Shaking hands with Gene Cernan afterwards, I noticed that a major
shift was beginning to take place in my own thoughts. I tried to fight back a bit of speechless
awe. And then he smiled at me and said,
"I like your P." <br />
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This
is part of my life, to have had these experiences, and these connections. Yet another unexpected lesson, which is still
affecting me today. "What's it like
to walk on the moon? It's wonderful, but
pilots are born to fly." How can I,
or anyone else, learn and experience and celebrate what one was born to
do? More than celebrity, more than
history, more than adulation, that is a wondrous teaching and model...<br />
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To
reach out, and touch the face of God.<br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-16931325207750172862012-08-20T13:36:00.000-04:002012-08-20T13:41:44.960-04:00Purdue MATE ROV entry: World Famous PotaTOS!<br />
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To students and faculty across many of our INSGC affiliates,
it's "Welcome (Back)" week as classes are starting up. Students return to campus carrying lots
of items, new and old, that they have collected or enjoyed over the
summer. This past Friday, Seth
Baklor of Purdue came by the INSGC Office with a fairly unusual item that he
was carrying around, visibly proud and thrilled despite the weight. Seth's burden was a happy one: the
Purdue IEEE entry in the Marine Advanced Technology Education <a href="http://www.materover.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139&Itemid=198#results">2012
MATE Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) International Competition held June 21—23</a>
in Orlando, FL. The Purdue MATE
ROV entry, nicknamed "PotaTOS", was one of our project awards in
2011-12; we were initially introduced to each other based on an INSGC awareness
survey of students on the Purdue campus regarding our programs, scholarships,
and other awards. (INSGC
provided a supplemental award <a href="http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2011/110707PurdueROVTeam.html">to
the team in 2010-11 to support their strong performance at NASA Johnson Space
Center</a>.) </div>
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This year, the PotaTOS ROV could be seen as a clearly
superior vehicle. Seth could
fairly easily, if somewhat awkwardly, carry the 35 pound vehicle himself. Compare that to other teams whose
vehicles rival me in weight (over 150 pounds). The interdisciplinary team concept allowed the team to
incorporate multiple innovations, efficiencies, and capabilities. At the 2012 competition, Purdue was
able to outperform in the water amid an international "pool" of
competition (not unlike another <a href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20120811/SPORTS/120811019/Olympics-2012-David-Boudia-Noblesville-Purdue-wins-gold-medal-big-upset-platform-diving">Purdue
product, David Boudia</a>). Overall,
<a href="http://www.materover.org/rov_competition_files/2012/2012_award_winners.pdf">PotaTOS
came in second in the Explorer (primarily University) Class, finishing behind
only a team from Vladivostok, Russia</a>.
(Seth reported that they only came in second because of a missed step in
the mission execution.) In
addition, Seth also won one of the competition's two "MVP" awards—funny,
but he forgot to mention that when he stopped by to visit. </div>
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Seth's enthusiasm and excitement for a job well done, doing
something he loves and enjoys with an explorer's passion, was definitely a
reminder to me of why we at INSGC support student project teams. The students can learn more in such a
project about teamwork, meeting real-world challenges and requirements, and
recognizing that performance trumps excuses and finger-pointing, EVERY
TIME. I'm exceptionally proud of
the team, and pleased for something else that Seth said: their successes
wouldn't have been possible without the support of INSGC. That helps me demonstrate my enthusiasm
and excitement for our job, and supporting others' passion with our own. Thank you, Seth, for reminding me why
we do this work. (Why else would <b>I</b>
be doing the fist pumping?) I might also point out that the other MVP award winner
was from <a href="http://nasa.asu.edu/robotics">Arizona State—Emily McBryan,
team lead of a robotics effort</a> supported by <a href="http://spacegrant.arizona.edu/">Arizona Space Grant</a>. Clearly, Space Grant is doing something
to help invigorate and enable education and professional development of the
next generation of STEM professionals and leaders. While it's unlikely that Purdue and Arizona State will be
meeting on the football field this season, here is a source of bragging rights
for the coming year. I can only
hope that other Space Grant consortia get involved in the effort and fun.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m7ixpsda7fu0upq/ScreRApC9H/ROV/2012/PotaTOS%20Pics#f:IMG_8440.JPG">PotaTOS in the water</a></div>
Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-913146679797138082012-07-09T23:23:00.003-04:002012-07-12T18:15:21.806-04:00Going Back with the Old Mac Team<br />
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Wednesday, June 20: It was the first summer day, and it
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I have come to enjoy my trips down to <a href="http://www.jasperin.org/" target="_blank">Jasper, IN</a> for the
Grissom Memorial Golf Outing and Scholarship Banquet – the drive down, and the
interactions with the Purdue alumni, are all valuable reminders of the ways in
which my role connects with the people of Indiana. And because this is Indiana, I have begun to appreciate some
of the habits and symbols that are so important here in ways that were foreign
to me growing up. One of the most
visible and vibrant of these symbols, driving through the Purdue West Lafayette
campus, was the iconic blue jacket of student FFA representatives here for the
state conference. For me, it
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However, I was going to Jasper a day early—the golf outing
wasn't due to start until Thursday at noon. Today was special.
I was invited down by Kent Olinger and Craig Kneis a day early, to visit
and share dinner with this year's special guests of the Grissom Classic. Over 50 years ago, a group of young
engineers from McDonnell Aircraft Corporation were given a unique
assignment. Take a ballistic
missile design which was not yet reliable, instrument it with electronics and
control systems that had not yet been designed, and modify it for human
habitation in an environment that many believed was not survivable. This was Project Mercury, and four of
those young engineers (Norm Beckel, Dean Purdy, Jerry Roberts, and Bob Schepp)
had agreed to come to Jasper and relate some of their stories and
experiences. For me, growing up in
the era of moon shots and space races, this was an unbelievable opportunity to
sit and talk to the men who had created the history that has defined my life
and career. (It's kind of like a
musician being invited to an intimate little occasion where a few old
veterans—say, <a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/18/happybirthdaymccartney/">Paul</a>,
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-15333771">Mick, Keith</a>,
and <a href="http://www.theboot.com/2012/07/09/ringo-starr-nashville-birthday/">Ringo</a>—got
together and talked about their first meetings, and playing R&B in clubs in
Liverpool and London from 1959 to 1961.)
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It was only with a great deal of effort and discipline that
we finished dinner at the <a href="http://www.schnitzelbank.com/" target="_blank">Schnitzelbank Restaurant</a> and went back to the hotel; it was with even more effort and
discipline that we ended the conversation and went to bed to get ready for golf
and a discussion panel the next evening.
The next day was hot, the golf challenging (I am getting better, but I
am a long way from good), and unfortunately, a flareup of an old injury kept
Bob from the evening banquet (and required a bit of last minute
replanning). However, there were
great surprises and sharing of experiences as well. Lowell Grissom, ever the modest one, gave us an
understanding of the culture of McDonnell in St. Louis, and the loudspeaker
talks by "<a href="http://www.jsmf.org/about/founder.htm">Old Mac</a>"
to "<a href="http://www.macsoldteam.com/index.html">the Team</a>". This was followed by stories from the
guys who "volunteered" to move down to Florida for a
"brief" assignment. (It
is also an interesting story to talk to Mrs. Beckel, Mrs. Purdy, and Mrs.
Roberts about what it was like to live and try to raise children in Titusville
and Cocoa Beach in 1960, long before the buildup of tourist attractions and
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It so happened that I had been given a digitized copy of the
Mercury Program Familiarization Manual as a Christmas gift (yes, I am that kind
of geek), so when the guys said that they weren't sure if they remembered, I
promised that I could refresh their memories. In the end, that was more than just a lighthearted
joke: the manual was dated
December 1959, and these panelists had literally been the ones to "write
the book" on the origins of American human spaceflight. I admit to being a bit of – no,
very much – a fan of the history of technology, so I asked everyone to sign
copies of the cover of the Manual as mementoes of the event. (One of these is now in a frame in the
INSGC Central Office.) <br />
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I really
wish I had learned history this way.
What is also interesting is the email I received later encouraging us to
continue such stories, and maybe even collecting them for publication. An interesting idea, I must confess.</div>
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Oh, and yes, the Scholarships. Once again, INSGC was pleased to be able to supplement the
Grissom Scholarship awards with INSGC Scholarships. It is impressive to listen to the four young women's
accomplishments to date: community service, internships, academic awards, and a
real passion for their subjects.
(I did get to speak with one whose eyes sparkled when she talked about
soloing in a Cessna, and looking forward to getting her first set of aviation
technology tools.) I'm glad I
didn't have to go through the difficulty of selecting these students from the
many qualified applicants. I just
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Let me just say that this was another time for me to simply
be thrilled to be Indiana Space Grant Consortium Director. Earlier in June, I had the opportunity
to speak with the new NASA Program Manager for Space Grant, and spend some time
discussing the range of activities and initiatives that INSGC does as "the
face of NASA" for many in the State.
I enjoy talking about my pride in being part of the "NASA
Team" – maybe I'm not yet at the level of historical contribution represented
by the "Old Mac Team" members in the picture, but I do want to
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I even got to spend Friday evening, after my return from
<a href="http://www.jasperstrassenfest.org/">Jasper</a>, watching the Indianapolis Indians baseball team win their game—after all,
it was summer, and a good time to watch the local team at the ballpark. Thanks once more to everyone in Jasper who manage to help me
feel welcomed and appreciated. That
means a lot to me, and is simply one of the best reminders and gifts associated
with being part of INSGC. </div>Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825218309121113166.post-9122341920533617592012-06-12T07:21:00.002-04:002012-06-12T07:25:39.942-04:00Right Place, Right TimeThis entry was written as a <a href="http://ncesse.org/2012/06/in-our-own-words-right-place-right-time-dr-barrett-caldwell-nasa-indiana-space-grant-consortium-director-at-spacex-launch-may-22-2012-no-bucks-no-buck-rogers/">guest blog for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education,</a> after my attendance at the SpaceX launch in May. Over there, it's called "No bucks, no Buck Rogers"--a reference to the requirements for investment in spaceflight (and education). Conveniently and coincidentally, that quote is attributed to Gus Grissom--whose legacy we continue to celebrate later in June in Jasper. Watch this space. --BC<br />
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Even in retrospect, it sounds unlikely… but it worked out
this way. When I was first invited
to the SpaceX Falcon / Dragon launch attempt on April 30, I was thrilled and
excited. This was the third launch
I’ve been invited to as the Director of the <a href="https://engineering.purdue.edu/INSGC">Indiana Space Grant Consortium</a>. However, the Lake County, IN SSEP
experiments have been responsible for two of them: the Avicenna Academy
experiment on STS-135, and now <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/ssep-lake-county.html">a larger
community collaboration</a> for this first commercial launch to the ISS. I quickly booked my tickets… and then
watched the series of emails and news reports as SpaceX scrubbed that launch
date. How about May 7? No, I couldn’t attend—my first job is as
a Purdue Industrial Engineering professor, and grades were due the next
day. That date slips by, as well. We’re now looking at early in the
morning on May 19. Well, almost,
but still not quite: I had already booked a ticket for Orlando, for my
attendance at the <a href="http://www.iienet2.org/annual2/">Industrial and
Systems Engineering Research Conference</a>. That ticket was for Saturday morning, and expensive to
change. I admitted defeat and put
the NASA TV on my smartphone waiting for the countdown. 3..2..1.. Liftoff? Not this time. Gwynne Shotwell’s press conference was
a marvel of poise and calm, and I was impressed. But there was a secret bit of guilty thrill. The next opportunity would be on May
22, and I would be there anyway! </div>
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Jeff was great to respond to me when I explained, first thing Monday morning,
that I could attend the launch, after all—if he still wanted to add me. I could understand that multiple launch
attempts can either reduce or enhance the desire to have visitors, and so I
gladly escaped the technical session to take his call. I found a car, took a nap, and found
myself leaving the hotel at midnight, as other conference goers are finishing
their evening at the banquet. I
was surprised to see very little traffic anywhere along the highways. Of course, for the Shuttle launches,
leaving Orlando only 3-4 hours before the launch could be a recipe for watching
the fiery tower from somewhere on State Road 528. Better safe than sorry, though, and I was relieved to pull
into the KSC Visitor Center parking lot an hour earlier than expected. That’s where I first met the student
from Houston’s SSEP, and a few of the resilient folks from <a href="http://highlandchristian.org/">Highland Christian School</a> who had
managed to hang on and have a semblance of alertness at 2:00AM. These were the
real stars of the launch for me, and in fact, some of the people I spent the most
time talking to during this historic event. (There were, of course some other folks in the NASA / SpaceX
invite group viewing area, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Kennedy
Space Center Director Robert Cabana, and commercial space habitation company
founder Robert Bigelow. Not bad
company for me, who studied space systems engineering and design of damping
mechanisms for space structures as an undergrad, and mission operations task
coordination as a faculty member.)
Watching the launch from the balcony across from the Vehicle Assembly
building on a clear, moonless night was a glorious sight—a bright Falcon
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As I spoke to the student experimenters, and the parents, I
was stunned. Here are 12 and 13
year olds, learning about bioreactors and microgravity-based growth of livers,
or the challenges of flight operations and project and team management. When I was 12, I was no less excited
about spaceflight, and was eagerly involved in watching and learning about the
space station experiments going on at the time (that was Skylab, and the
Apollo-Soyuz program). What would
it have been like if I had actually been able to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">design, build, and fly </i></b>one
of those experiments? These kids
are certainly in the right place, at the right time. I had a secret lament that I couldn’t benefit from this
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I was, eventually, convinced that my participation was
valuable too. INSGC did underwrite
the Lake County collaboration at a critical time in their project. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/quotes?qt=qt0377966">As a line from
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Right Stuff</i> points out (via
Indiana astronaut, Gus Grissom), “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.”</a> Inspiration for these young
scientists, engineers, inventors and project leaders is essential. But so is investment. Elon Musk has made a lot of money, and
has decided to use much of it to create and support SpaceX. Robert Bigelow has made a lot of money,
and is committed to using much of it to create and support space habitation at
Bigelow Aerospace. No, most of us
don’t have a few hundred million dollars lying around. But each of us makes choices with the
funds we do have. You don’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">just</i> wake up one morning and drive to Cocoa
Beach and happen to see a rocket launch.
Sometimes you get a little lucky… but most of is planning and investment
and dedication and belief and commitment spanning months and years and even
decades. That commitment is
essential, or else success remains a thing of wish and hope and dream. I want to thank all of those at NCESSE
and SSEP who allowed me to be at the right place at the right time. I’m glad I could be in attendance as a
Space Grant partner. I am hoping,
most of all, that others see what commitment and investment in our capabilities
can do… and choose accordingly to help us and ours be where we need to be, and
do what we need to do—now, not just someday.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3825218309121113166" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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If there is one thing that Space Grant is not… it's not
boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nervous waiting,
last-minute rescheduling, dynamic rebalancing and reprioritization, and
unexpected novelty have all been part of the action since our Affiliates
Meeting two weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(By the
way, if you didn't make it, we missed you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could have helped us finish some of the food we
ambitiously ordered from <a href="http://www.adelinos.com/">Adelino's</a>.) </div>
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As promised and intended, the INSGC Central Office submitted
our Annual Performance Data (APD) report on Friday (yes, April 13) after the
meeting; I was able to add a few details mentioning our rich and very helpful
discussions about our SMART Objectives, and the Affiliates' engagement in
"Next Big Thing" discussions and priorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Officially, our submission of the APD
begins the formal process of gaining approval for the 2012-13 Base budget for
the program year beginning May 17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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As I had mentioned, we are very excited and proud of the
INSGC-supported group of students whose <a href="http://ssep.ncesse.org/communities/community-directory/community-profiles-and-local-partners-ssep-mission-1-to-iss/#crownpoint">Student
Spaceflight Experiments Project is due to launch on the SpaceX / Dragon mission</a>
representing the first commercial launch to the ISS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to pry open a small window of time to attend the
launch on April 30… but the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/spacex_index.html">launch
was delayed until May 7</a> (right in the middle of finals and grading for
me).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sigh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, well.</div>
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However, lest I spend too much time sulking and brooding, I got
some very good information on Tuesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our Augmentation funding has arrived from NASA Shared Services!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, the moment we've been waiting for,
and now subcontracts can be written, additional support can be allocated, and
we can even look at repurposing some funds to make sure students can start on
their summer NASA Center internships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the source of a huge sigh of relief from Angie, and from Dawn,
and from me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will still take
some time to get all of the paperwork through Sponsored Programs, but we are
focusing on that now.</div>
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Interestingly, one of this month's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wired</i> Magazine's cover articles is <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_spotfuture/">"7 Ways to
Spot the Next Big Thing"</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Funny, I don't remember any journalists in the audience during our
Affiliates Meeting, but that's exactly what we were discussing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's clear that we're on our way
already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on discussions with,
and activities led by, our new INSGC Partners, <a href="http://www.indianaafterschool.org/">Indiana Afterschool Network</a>, and <a href="http://www.wisdomtools.com/">Wisdom Tools</a>, INSGC will continue to be
involved with the <a href="http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/STEM/Pages/default.aspx">NDIA</a>
/ AIA discussions to address <a href="http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/STEM/Documents/Swallow_AIA_NDIA_STEM_Workforce_Briefing_12_04_03.pdf">STEM
education and employment in Indiana</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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challenge we cannot wait to address.</div>
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winding down; NCAA basketball games are now just a manageable number as we
watch the continued progression to men's and women's national champions. But on Saturday, March 17, the concept
of March Madness was alive and in full swing on the Purdue campus. Even the weather was insane—a few days
before the Equinox, temperatures were in the 70s and 80s for the great elimination
round competitions due to square off in the games of roundball. The teams were prepared to fill the
nets, the fans were loud and engaged in the stands, and the referees were ready
to manage the clock timing and check for fouls. The anticipation is great as we prepare for… autonomous
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INSGC is proud to be a sponsor of the annual <a href="http://regional.purduefirst.org/">Boilermaker Regional competitions of
FIRST Robotics</a> (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology),
held in the Purdue Armory during Friday and Saturday of the university's Spring
Break. It is truly amazing
to see over 2000 high school students, teachers, parents, and other
participants come to watch the competitions every year. In fact, attendance was down a bit this
year… because the fire marshal was concerned about too many people in the pits
and stands.</div>
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This year's competition, entitled Rebound Rumble<sup>SM</sup>,
highlights "coop-etition" with robots designed to shoot foam
basketballs at hoops for 1-3 points, and then balance on teeter-totters for
additional scoring. I have always
been amazed at the FIRST competitions, not just from the innovation and
creativity of each year's event, but the variety and ingenuity that high school
teams generate in only 6-8 weeks between contest announcement and Regional
events. (Rebound Rumble<sup>SM</sup>
was announced <a href="http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/rebound-rumble-robotics-game-unveiled-by-dean-kamen-and-host-of-celebrities">on
January 7, in a ceremony including George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and will.i.am
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Regional is that INSGC is not a sponsor of any one team. No matter who does well, I can enjoy
it. So, it's easy to get excited
about a well-crafted range sensing and guidance mechanism, an effective
multi-shot loft mechanism, or even the clever team that decided that just a
hollow tube that pours balls into the 1-point hoop was an effective and
low-risk scoring mechanism. In
other words, it is everything that an engineer could love about requisite
variety in problem solving and pathways to solution. Shoot the ball!</div>
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Unfortunately, I couldn't stay for the whole event, as I had
another basketball event to attend. Yes, at the same time as FIRST, and just a few hundred yards
away in Mackey Arena, Purdue was also hosting the first round of the NCAA
Women's Basketball tournament<a href="http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-women/article/2012-03-17/purdue-holds-south-dakota-st">. Purdue was playing their first round
game against South Dakota State</a>, and as a very loyal season ticket holder,
I needed to attend that game, too.
Of course, I was a lot more invested and focused on which team won that
one… Purdue came out on top there, too, with a record-breaking shooting
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However, I'm not here as a sportswriter. I'm here to express my appreciation for
the <a href="http://www.purduefirst.org/">Purdue FIRST</a> student
organization, who began with a dream to bring FIRST teams to the university,
and then to host a regional competition, and to support K-12 engagement and
STEM education excitement in Indiana.
Anytime you can fill the bleachers for robots, while two Miss Indiana
basketball stars are playing just down the street, that's a fantastic
accomplishment. A slam dunk, if
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The week of February 20 was an historic and meaningful one
for space geek folk and Space Grant Directors like me, for a variety of
reasons. (Please excuse me for the
delay in posting this entry—although I had wanted to, the emotional intensity
of it all actually made it more difficult than I expected to process my
thoughts in an eloquent way.)
The sharing may be insightful for others, or simply cathartic for me; I
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The Director aspect of me was engaged, and enthused, and
enmeshed by an email that we have been waiting to receive for several weeks—the
acceptance of our 2011-12 Augmentation funding proposal. Yes, I know that it seems confusing and
unreal, but it was only on February 21 that we were able to determine our total
budget for the current program year that is scheduled to end on May 16. Ironically, it was only a day or two
later that I received another email, reminding INSGC that we should begin our
annual performance report, due 60 days before the end of the program year, or
March 16. Yes, there is a bit of a
scramble to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">simultaneously</i> begin to
generate award authorizations for scholarships, fellowships, and grant
activities, while also trying to identify how we would report on their activity
in preparation for next year. Such
is the nature of being at once a manager of award funds (within INSGC) and the
recipient of those funds (from NASA) in what is seen as a novel and challenging
federal budget environment. Those
of you who are patiently (or impatiently—I understand your perspective as well)
for announcements, I can sympathize, and I especially appreciate your ability
to function in this chaotic environment.</div>
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Also during the week of February 20 was the 50<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary (Really? Already?) of John Glenn's first orbital flight
that heralded the entry of the United States into human exploration in
space. I don't remember the state
of the world the day of Glenn's launch from Cape Canaveral—I was in existence,
but not yet external. For people
older than I, the phrase, "Godspeed, John Glenn" was a password, an
"open sesame" to a different type of future. I find it amazing, then, that I had the
opportunity to meet John Glenn – astronaut, US Senator, national treasure (a
semi-official designation that kept him from flying again for over 30 years) at
a Space Grant meeting a few years ago.
That is a special connection to history, more than any artifact or piece
of memorabilia could provide.
A connection to history, a special gift.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">BC and Sen. Glenn at <a href="http://www.spacegrant.org/nsgdsa/Glenn">National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award Banquet, 2006</a>. Photo courtesy of Ann Broughton.</span></div>
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However, the more significant and intense experience of the
week for me was on Friday, February 24.
This was the day of the Distinguished Engineering Alumni (DEA) awards on
the Purdue campus. One of the
awardees was Janice Voss, the first of Purdue's female astronauts, and a VIP guest at Purdue's Fall Space Day. I was not alone in my excitement to see
her back on campus and speak to her about how she continues to inspire students,
including the student project team designing an educational model of the solar
system as an exhibit to be placed on campus. The exhibit is named, most appropriately, "Visiting Our
Solar System," or VOSS, and had just moved into the phase of selecting the
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Janice Voss and students at <a href="https://engineering.purdue.edu/PurdueSpaceDay/History">Purdue Fall Space Day 2000</a>. Photo courtesy of Ann Broughton.</span></div>
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However, the celebration changed significantly as we learned
that Janice died on February 6, unable to continue her fight against breast
cancer. And yet, there was still a
celebration, one of life and presence and effect. Janice's
parents and sisters came to Purdue, and brought a number of artifacts and
reminders of her five spaceflight launches. Dr. and Mrs. Voss accepted the DEA award for Janice, and
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My connection to Janice Voss is more direct than that to
John Glenn, and one that I was grateful to be able to share at the
reception. When I was the faculty
mentor for a Purdue reduced gravity student flight experiment project, one of
the students had connected with Janice and scheduled dinner. We had a wonderful meal together at one
of the little restaurants that surround Johnson Space Center, and though the
mentoring was mostly directed at the students, I learned some important lessons
as well. I have no pictures of the
event, no posed shots or autographs… just a reminder of her appreciation for
Purdue's continuing embrace and connection, and her insistence that we pay for
the students' meals. I told that
story, and managed to get through it without choking up… too badly, that
is. I also offered to have INSGC
help support a named scholarship in Janice's honor, one that the Voss family has
endowed. For all of our desire to
celebrate them, the best gifts were given by the Vosses. The reception, they stated, should not
be seen as a somber memorial, but a special connection, a recognition and observance
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Godspeed, Janice Voss.</div>
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<br />Barrett Caldwell, INSGC Directorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05208276632848358535noreply@blogger.com0