National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) / American Society for Engineering Education ( ASEE ) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program - 1994

National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) / American Society for Engineering Education ( ASEE ) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program - 1996

As the complexity of electronic systems grows, the traditional design practice, a sequential process, is replaced by concurrent design methodologies. A major advantage of concurrent design is that the feedback from software and manufacturing engineers can be easily incorporated into the design. The implementation of concurrent engineering methodologies is greatly facilitated by employing the la...

Nasa Faculty Fellowship Program Marshall Space Flight Center the University of Alabama Investigation of Structural Properties of Carbon-epoxy Composites Using Embedded Fiber-optic Bragg Gratings

Software Process Improvement in the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory

The Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) was established in 1976 for the purpose of studying and measuring software processes with the intent of identifying improvements that could be applied to the production of ground support software within the Flight Dynamics Division (FDD) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The SEL has three mem...

Ac 2011-1435: System Safety Literacy and Multidisciplinary Engineering Education: Teaching Accident Causation and Prevention

Cynthia C. Pendley is a Program Coordinator for the Center for Space Systems in the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology where she has served since 2005. Prior to joining Georgia Tech Ms. Pendley was a product developer at Kimberly-Clark Corporation where she was awarded two patents for specialized filtration products. She received her B.S. in Textiles from Georgia...

Separation Analysis, a Tool for Analyzing Multigrid Algorithms

The separation of vectors by multigrid (MG) algorithms is applied to the study of convergence and to the prediction of the performance of MG algorithms. The separation operator for a two level cycle algorithm is derived. It is used to analyze the e ciency of the cycle when mixing of eigenvectors occurs. In particular cases the separation analysis reduces to Fourier type analysis. The separation...