FY 1989 scientific and technical reports, articles, papers, and presentations

A compendium of bibliographic references to papers presented by Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) personnel and contractors during FY 1989 is provided. The papers include formal NASA technical reports, memoranda, papers which were published in technical journals, and presentations by MSFC personnel. The formal NASA technical reports and memoranda have abstracts included. Sources for obtaining these documents are also included

NASA Langley Scientific and Technical Information Output: 1998

This document is a compilation of the scientific and technical information that the Langley Research Center has produced during the calendar year 1998. Included are citations for Technical Publications, Conference Publications, Technical Memorandums, Contractor Reports, Journal Articles and Book Publications, Meeting Presentations, Technical Talks, and Patents

Air Force Institute of Technology Research Report 2011

This report summarizes the research activities of the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management. It describes research interests and faculty expertise; lists student theses/dissertations; identifies research sponsors and contributions; and outlines the procedures for contacting the school. Included in the report are: faculty publications, conference presentations, consultations, and funded research projects. Research was conducted in the areas of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electro-Optics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Systems and Engineering Management, Operational Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics and Engineering Physics

Intrepid: A Mission to Pluto

A proposal for an exploratory spacecraft mission to Pluto/Charon system was written in response to the request for proposal for an unmannned probe to pluto (RFP). The design requirements of the RFP are presented and under the guidance of these requirements, the spacecraft Intrepid was designed. The RPF requirement that was of primary importance is the minimization of cost. Also, the reduction of flight time was of extreme importance because the atmosphere of Pluto is expected to collapse close to the Year 2020. If intrepid should arrive after the collapse, the mission would be a failure; for Pluto would be only a solid rock of ice. The topics presented include: (1) scientific instrumentation; (2) mission management, planning, and costing; (3) power and propulsion subsystem; (4) structural subsystem; (5) command, control, and communications; and (6) attitude and articulation control

Making Sense of Adding Environmental Sustainability as a Core Value by a Company with a High Carbon Footprint: A Single Case Study

A qualitative single case study was conducted to explore how a single company with a high fossil fuel use, ITS Logistics, has adapted to the triple bottom line components of social, environmental, and economic sustainability. The research question for the study was: How and why did ITS Logistics, a company with a high fossil fuel use, adopt sustainability as a core value? Data collection was comprised of document reviews, three site observations, and 14 semi-structured interviews with three executives, three directors, four managers, three hourly employees, and one truck driver. Two prominent findings were found. First, the (Hi)story of ITS Logistics was paramount to the efforts that ITS Logistics had undertaken; company employees shared stories related to historical aspects of the company’s founding and how current practices related to the long-established organizational culture. Within this theme of the company’s history, the first subtheme was a focus on economic sustainability and growth. Additionally, to reach company economic sustainability goals, social sustainability, the second subtheme, was found to be in practice at ITS Logistics. The second prominent finding was centered on the company’s organizational culture, along with a subtheme focused on the core values at ITS Logistics. As the organization appeared to have a family-oriented culture, company members frequently remarked related core values at ITS Logistics, such Teamwork, Having Fun, and Integrity. Altogether, it appeared that the company’s history and focus economic and social sustainability were essential to establishing opportunities for changes toward adopting environmental sustainability. Based on these findings, the company appeared to be positioned to integrate efforts in support of environmental sustainability, with aspirational goals to have sustainability prevail as a shared core value among organizational members at ITS Logistics

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Transmutation Research Program Annual Progress Report Academic Year 2007-2008

It is my pleasure to present the UNLV Transmutation Research Program’s seventh annual report that highlights the academic year 2007-2008. Supporting this document are the many technical reports and theses that have been generated over the past seven years. In the seventh year of our program, we continued to see growth in the Radiochemistry Ph.D. program with a total of 20 students in the fourth year of the program (we anticipated twelve in the program proposal). Since our inception, the program has sponsored to their conclusion 48 M.S. and 6 Ph.D. degrees. The program supported 53 graduate students, 11 undergraduates, and eight post-doctoral scholars in eight academic departments across the UNLV scientific and engineering communities in the academic year 2007-2008. Our research tasks span the range of technology areas for transmutation, including separation of actinides from spent nuclear fuel, methods of fuel fabrication, reactoraccelerator coupled experiments, corrosion of materials exposed to lead-bismuth eutectic, and special nuclear materials protection and accountability. We continued our emphasis on molten metal technology and actinide chemistry in our enhancements to UNLV this year to build a foundation in areas that are in line with UNLV’s strategic growth and our ability to address student-appropriate research in the transmutation program

Colorado water, December 2000

The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.Newsletter of the Water Center at Colorado State University