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Centrifugal Casting of Paraffin and Beeswax for Hybrid Rockets
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2020-08)© 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A high-level research framework is presented which seeks to navigate the barriers associated with reusing wax phase change material ... -
Centrifugal Casting of Paraffin and Beeswax for Hybrid Rockets
© 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. All rights reserved. A high-level research framework is presented which seeks to navigate the barriers associated with reusing wax phase change material ... -
Combining Social, Environmental and Design Models to Support the Sustainable Development Goals
(IEEE, 2019-03)There are benefits to be gained from combining the strengths of modeling frameworks that capture social, environ- mental and design-based considerations. Many of the impor- tant challenges of the next decade lie at the ... -
Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking: Toward Planetary-Scale Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping: Harnessing Human-Machine Intelligence for High-Stake Public Policy and Resilience Planning
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Decision Support Model and Visualization for Assessing Environmental Phenomena, Ecosystem Services, Policy Consequences, and Satellite Design Using Earth Observation Data
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Designing for voice in the vacuum : property in citizenship for democratic equality for future spacefarers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The hostile environments of space will require that human life beyond Earth be mediated by many advanced technologies and the many operationally prescriptive systems needed to manage them. Such sociotechnical systems will ... -
Developing the detectability, identifiability, and trackability analysis for the space sustainability rating
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)Three of the core activities in maintaining Space Situational Awareness (SSA) efforts are the Detection, Identification, and Tracking of Anthropogenic Space Objects (ASOs). For much of the space age, the onus for improving ... -
Earth observation technology applied to environmental management : a case study in Benin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Coastal ecosystems provide habitats for a wide variety of plant and animal species. They also provide many benefits to humans in the form of transportation, subsistence, and economic opportunity. These benefits are at risk ... -
Exploratory design methods and techniques in support of space mission concept development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)I Designers are ubiquitous in the Consumer Product Industry, the Automotive Industry and Entertainment. Fields such as Product Design, Transportation Design and Entertainment Design emphasize finding solutions to problems ... -
Exploratory methods and techniques for space technology development and space mission concept development
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-01)This paper hopes to fill a gap in literature by framing the current state of exploratory design methods and techniques within space mission development and laying the groundwork to begin utilizing a wider variety of these ... -
Incentivizing Collaboration on Space Sustainability: Detectability, Identifiability, and Trackability of Space Missions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)The world has increasingly come to rely on satellites to provide services such as navigation, global communications, banking, national security, and weather forecasting. However, as satellites are launched into space at ... -
Inclusive Design of Earth Observation Decision Support Systems for Environmental Governance: A Case Study of Lake Nokoué
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-09)Earth Observation (EO) data can enhance understanding of human-environmental systems for the creation of climate data services, or Decision Support Systems (DSS), to improve monitoring, prediction and mitigation of climate ... -
Interactive Model for Assessing Mangrove Health, Ecosystem Services, Policy Consequences, and Satellite Design in Rio de Janeiro Using Earth Observation Data
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-10)There is an increasing need for tools to translate Earth Observation (EO) data into societally rele- vant metrics to inform human decision-making. To address this need, we present a multi-disciplinary, interactive modeling ... -
Investigating Social Presence and Communication with Embodied Avatars in Room-Scale Virtual Reality
(Immersive Learning Research Network Conference, iLRN 2017, 2017-06-26)Room-scale virtual reality (VR) holds great potential as a medium for communication and collaboration in remote and same-time, same-place settings. Related work has established that movement realism can create a strong ... -
The large footprint of small-scale artisanal gold mining in Ghana
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while industrial mining is prevalent in the country, the expansion of artisanal mining, or ... -
Leveraging microgravity to investigate earth- And space-based centrifugal casting of wax
(International Astronautical Federation, 2020-01)A multi-year research effort aimed at increasing understanding of the centrifugal casting process of wax fuels for hybrid chemical propulsion in multiple thermal and gravitational environments is described. As both radiative ... -
Linking Historical Roots and Current Methodologies of Engineering Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-12)This paper reviews the historical context and present impact of two sets of literature: the work of Joseph Schumpeter and the field of Strategy Development. Schumpeter’s theories about the impact of technology or innovation ... -
Managing Byzantine Robots via Blockchain Technology in a Swarm Robotics Collective Decision Making Scenario
(2018-05-25)While swarm robotics systems are often claimed to be highly fault-tolerant, so far research has limited its attention to safe laboratory settings and has virtually ignored security issues in the presence of Byzantine ...