"Life Sciences Hardware and Experiment Design for
Spaceflight"
Instructor:
Dr.
Alexander Hoehn, Aerospace
Engineering Sciences, BioServe Space
Technologies
The class is offered as a graduate-level,
special elective class, as well as a CATECS class, and is available as a CATECS
class on tape. Senior students with interest in design may enroll.
graduate: ASEN 5519-002 call# 85230
class meets: Tu/Th 09:30-10:45 CATECS room ECCS 1B14 (small
CATECS room)
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Course Outline (Schedule):
The class provides a comprehensive overview
of spaceflight payload design, manufacturing, testing / qualification,
integration and spaceflight operations. Emphasis is on life sciences payload /
instrument design, but the process is applicable to many other fields of
instrument/payload design, and may benefit seniors and graduate students
interested in the design process (senior design lab, graduate research
instrument design, spaceflight research).
Design examples will be taken from BioServe Space
Technologies, a NASA Research Partnership Center specializing in Space Life Sciences in the Aerospace
department since 1987. The instructor, Dr. Alex Hoehn, has been with BioServe
Space Technologies for 15 years, and was involved in more than 25 spaceflight
missions and various new payload
designs.
Students will examine scientific / functional
requirements and will analyze experiment requirements from a systems
engineering functional understanding, followed by detailed design and test
processes. Emphasis will be on key technologies influenced by the unique
spaceflight environment, as well as the unique, interdisciplinary operational
requirements. In addition to detailed design processes, the class will also
address spaceflight testing / qualification and mission operations, with
emphasis on Space Shuttle / International Space Station carriers. The design
solutions must satisfy science as well as NASA engineering requirements to fly
and operate the experiment. The final design (payload / experiment) has to be
designed and qualified for flight in the Space Shuttle / Space Station or
future free-flyer missions. During the class, actual spaceflight hardware will
be presented and analyzed that was designed by students and staff of BioServe
Space Technologies, and has flown on various carriers. Participation in actual
new flight hardware design during the class is envisioned.
Grades:
Grades will be
based on homework, midterm and final exam, as well as a final project
presentation (oral, written).
Textbook:
The class will use NASA documentation and
design guidelines provided during class and on the web. Students will be
expected to independently research supporting background information and help
in the compilation of a design rule ‘textbook’ to be used in future
classes as part of their class work.
Contact:
Alexander Hoehn, Ph.D. phone: 492-5875
office: ECAE1B06 BioServe Space Technologies - Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Mailing address:
429, UCB - Boulder, CO 80309-0429, USA. email: hoehn@spot.colorado.edu
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