Alvin D Harvey SM ’20 PhD ’24 received a 2024 Priscilla King Gray Award for Public Service for his work revolutionizing the MIT campus for Indigenous students, faculty, and staff. “I can state confidently that the Indigenous community is on a path to healing because of the dedicated community and social engagement that Alvin has undertaken as a graduate student,” said nominator Nicole McGaa. Read about his impact in a new profile from the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (PKG Center): https://ow.ly/mZ3X50SKZCJ
MIT AeroAstro
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MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
About us
MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics (also known as Course 16) is an academic department and research hub within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our research and education span three sectors: air, space, and computing, and the people that comprise our community are our greatest asset. Our vision is to create an aerospace field that is a diverse and inclusive community, pushing the boundaries of the possible to ensure lasting positive impact on our society, economy, and the environment.
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https://aeroastro.mit.edu/
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- Higher Education
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- 201-500 employees
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- 1914
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As organizations begin to navigate the use of generative artificial intelligence, a group of MIT experts hopes a new four-step framework for technology design and implementation will inspire leaders to include worker voice in their decision-making. “I know from prior work that I’ve done in automation and robotics, the most successful applications of automation were those where the engineers were working side by side with those on the shop floor or those with the domain expertise,” says Prof. and Dept. head Julie Shah. From MIT Sloan School of Management: https://ow.ly/esL950SKuRx
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MIT AeroAstro reposted this
I’m so honored to have been selected for the Space Generation Advisory Council’s SGC/IAC Global Rising Stars Award 2024. 🚀✨ Looking forward to seeing folks at #SGC and #IAC in Milan this October. Let me know if you will be there! 🇮🇹
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Congratulations to the SPARKlab team! Learn more about Khronos here: https://lnkd.in/em4QUxxx
#Khronos won the Outstanding Systems Paper Award at #RSS2024 !! very proud of my postdoc and lead author Lukas Schmid, and my students Marcus Abate and Yun Chang. Khronos' code and paper are online: Video: https://lnkd.in/eFVtTsAs Code: https://lnkd.in/eRkKp24X Paper: https://lnkd.in/eqQkWAWH #mitSparkLab #spatialPerception #robotPerception #4DSceneUnderstanding RSS Conference
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On July 20, 1969 – fifty-five years ago today – NASA landed the Apollo 11 mission, and the first humans on the moon. The mission was made possible by guidance, navigation, and control systems developed by the MIT Instrumentation Lab, founded by AeroAstro’s Charles Stark Draper. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin (PhD ’63) was the second man to set foot on the moon and one of four Course 16 graduates to walk on the moon – so far! Read more on MIT News: https://ow.ly/2GuO50SG3Lz
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Ammonia could be a nearly carbon-free maritime fuel, but without new emissions regulations, its impact on air quality could significantly impact human health. A new study from an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers, including AeroAstro’s Florian Allroggen, indicates that with stronger regulations and cleaner engine technology, the switch to ammonia could lead to about 66,000 fewer premature deaths than currently caused by maritime shipping emissions, with far less impact on global warming. Read more on MIT News: https://ow.ly/w9hW50SBK40
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MIT AeroAstro reposted this
Blue Origin Space Resources R&D Intern | MIT AeroAstro Ph.D. Candidate | NSF Graduate Research Fellow | AstroAccess Ambassador
I had an incredible opportunity to conduct research in zero-g! My experiment tested the performance of insulin pumps in the spaceflight-like conditions of microgravity. As an AstroAccess Ambassador, I’m grateful to be able to share this work with the #T1D community and beyond. Together, we’re taking another step towards making space accessible for all.
Our Ambassadors, Larry Guterman, Brenda Williamson, and Kyle J. Horn, recently completed two zero-gravity missions: one with Aurelia Institute and one with Zero-G! This work aims to advance space access for historically marginalized audiences and to provide safer, more effective design solutions for all people. Learn more about their experiments in #accessibility here: https://bit.ly/45rK8fT
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Announcing the winners of the MIT ARCLab Prize for AI Innovation in Space: congratulations to David Baldsiefen of Team Hawaii2024! Baldsiefen will be awarded $10,000 and is invited to join the ARCLab team to present at a poster session at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference in Hawaii this fall. The competition asked contestants to harness AI to characterize satellites’ patterns of life (PoLs) using purely passively collected information. 126 teams used machine learning to create algorithms to label and time-stamp the behavioral modes of GEO satellites over a six-month period, competing for accuracy and efficiency. Two additional top-ranking teams are also invited to join the ARCLab team at the conference. Read more on MIT News: https://ow.ly/790h50SBJV4
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This year’s MIT Summer Reading List features Prof. Nancy Leveson’s An Introduction to System Safety Engineering. In our ever more complicated systems landscape, safety has never been more important. Prof. Leveson covers the history of safety engineering; explores risk, ethics, legal frameworks, and policy implications; and explains why accidents happen and how to mitigate risks in modern, software-intensive systems. Check it out this summer from MIT Press, and explore the full summer reading list: https://ow.ly/mbre50Syiks
Summer 2024 reading from MIT
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We are excited to welcome Masha Folk to our department as Charles Stark Draper Career Development Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics! Prof. Folk is an expert in turbomachinery, heat transfer and combustion technology for sustainable aviation, and joins the Gas Turbine Laboratory (GTL).
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