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Space/Defense
Electronics
Chair: Don Takehara, Taylor
U. |
This session springboards from
the Defense Electronics Focus Action Team from Indiana's Defense Asset
Study that focused on the development of electronic products and systems
to assist military, homeland security and aerospace operations. Some
examples of topics include: radio frequency, miniaturization, radiation
hardening, communications, sensors, radar, command/control,
surveillance/reconnaissance, etc.
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Lisa Laughner (Conexus)
Hank Voss (Taylor U.)
Brian Bailey (Crane)
Tim Morris (Raytheon)
Larry Williams (ITT)
Ed Delp (Purdue)
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Low
Cost Access to Space and Near Space
(This session is combined with the Space/Defence Electronics session above.)
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The increasing
capabilities of universities and small businesses to build small space
payloads and nanosatellites has not led to a corresponding increase in
launch opportunities. The purpose of this Breakout Session is to examine
the current environment for low cost access to space and near space and
what investment and infrastructures are needed to improve the
situation.
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David Crain and Scott Armstrong
(ITT Space Systems)
Jason Krueger/Hank Voss/Jeff Dailey
(StratoStar Systems/Taylor U.)
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New
Aircraft Design and Manufacture Born in Indiana
Chair: Pete
Bitar, AirBuoyand/XADS |
The focus of the
session will be on helping determine what it would take to develop a
complete aircraft here in the state of Indiana, from design, all the way to
manufacture, in what market niche the aircraft would be sold, and how long
something like that would take. Indiana has a lot of resources, from
Purdue to small companies, to large powerplant manufacturers, to high-end,
exotic metals machine shops. We have the capability to develop complete
platforms here - what would it take to do that? Why not Indiana?
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Margaret Ratcliff
(Purdue)
Pete Bitar
(AirBuoyant and XADS)
Joseph Gangestad
(Orbit Frontiers)
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Education
K-12 Outreach
Chair: Lou
Papai |
This Breakout Session will
begin to identify the successful outreach programs that are happening in
the state regarding Aerospace and Space Science. It will then be our
intent to reflect on those programs and brainstorm on and identify
potential collaboration opportunities to create and implement a possible
statewide K-12 outreach opportunity for the areas of Aerospace and Space
Science. |
Jennifer Daake
(NW IN Challenger Center)
Ann Broughton
(Purdue Space Day)
Macon Beck
(Purdue's K-12 Physics/Engineering Education Outreach)
David Patterson
(Taylor High Altitude Balloon Program)
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