Technical Workshop: Advanced Helicopter Cockpit Design

Information processing demands on both civilian and military aircrews have increased enormously as rotorcraft have come to be used for adverse weather, day/night, and remote area missions. Applied psychology, engineering, or operational research for future helicopter cockpit design criteria were identified. Three areas were addressed: (1) operational requirements, (2) advanced avionics, and (3) man-system integration

Uncommon Schools: Turning Urban Schools Into Springboards to College

This report illustrates the successful college preparatory practices of Uncommon Schools, a network of 38 public charter schools in New York, New Jersey and Massachusettsthat serves nearly 10,000 low-income students and students of color. During the 2013 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools review process, a panel of national education experts chose Uncommon Schools as the best among the nation's 27 largest urban charter management organizations in closing achievement gaps, graduating its students and preparing them for college. The policies and practices highlighted in this report were drawn from a week-long site visit to Uncommon Schools conducted by RMC Research Corporation in November 2013 and a review of Uncommon's quantitative student achievement data from 2008-09 through 2011-2012

The Cowl - v.78 - n.4 - Sep 26, 2013

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 78 - No. 4 - September 26, 2013. 28 pages

Threat expert system technology advisor

A prototype expert system was developed to determine the feasibility of using expert system technology to enhance the performance and survivability of helicopter pilots in a combat threat environment while flying NOE (Nap of the Earth) missions. The basis for the concept is the potential of using an Expert System Advisor to reduce the extreme overloading of the pilot who flies NOE mission below treetop level at approximately 40 knots while performing several other functions. The ultimate goal is to develop a Threat Expert System Advisor which provides threat information and advice that are better than even a highly experienced copilot. The results clearly show that the NOE pilot needs all the help in decision aiding and threat situation awareness that he can get. It clearly shows that heuristics are important and that an expert system for combat NOE helicopter missions can be of great help to the pilot in complex threat situations and in making decisions

Quality and field of vision - a review of the needs of drivers and riders: phase 1 report.

It is the responsibility of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) to promote safe use of the UK road network. Driver vision has been identified as major determinant to this and factors which impede it require further investigation. This project is specifically concerned with the effect on driver / rider vision of: • windscreen and visor tinting, installed light transmission, haze, abrasion, damage and repair, • the use and positioning of wider structural member (particularly A-pillars) to improve crashworthiness, aerodynamics and rigidity. The first phase of the work is to understand the current status regarding the above factors and the rationale for it. A variety of sources have been consulted for this information including: • establishing contact with interested parties, • reviewing and establishing the basis of EC Directives and other regulations, • reviewing and summarising previous, current and proposed research, • analysing available accident data, • interviewing drivers and riders. A detailed work plan for the remainder of the project has been developed based on the results of the Phase 1 findings and on the professional experience ICE Ergonomics has in this field

AH-1S communication switch integration program

The C-6533/ARC communication system as installed on the test AH-1E Cobra helicopter was modified to allow discrete radio selection of all aircraft radios at the cyclic radio/intercommunication system switch. The current Cobra-fleet use of the C-6533 system is cumbersome, particularly during low-altitude operations. Operationally, the current system C-6533 configuration and design requires the pilot to estimate when he can safely remove his hand from an active flight control to select radios during low-altitude flight. The pilot must then physically remove his hand from the flight control, look inside the cockpit to select and verify the radio selection and then effect the selected radio transmission by activating the radio/ICS switch on the cyclic. This condition is potentially hazardous, especially during low-level flight at night in degraded weather. To improve pilot performance, communications effectiveness, and safety, manprint principles were utilized in the selection of a design modification. The modified C-6533 design was kept as basic as possible for potential Cobra-fleet modification. The communications system was modified and the design was subsequently flight-tested by the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate and NASA at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California. The design modification enables the Cobra pilot to maintain hands-on flight controls while selecting radios during nap-of-the-Earth (NOE) flight without looking inside the cockpit which resulted in reduced pilot workload ratings, better pilot handling quality ratings and increased flight safety for the NOE flight environment

Electronic Dive Mask: A Heads Up Display for Deep Diving

The top five dangers in diving are marine life, malfunctioning equipment, asphyxiation, pulmonary embolism, and nitrogen narcosis. These risks exist even with the current standards of diving equipment. Most of these risks can be attributed to a lack of information, either due to inattention or because the information is not accessible to the diver. The current solution to these risks are dive computers, wearable devices around the diver\u27s wrist which provides numeric displays of various information. One value the devices do not display is orientation. These devices also have insufficient methods of warning the user. As such a device is proposed to work in tandem with dive computers to both provide a measurement of orientation and a better method of warning the diver. This proposed method is a device placed inside the diver\u27s dive goggles. This allows the device to constantly warn the user by always being in the diver\u27s peripheral vision. The proposed solution uses an accelerometer to provide values for orientation, a value not present in dive computers. By constantly displaying orientation to the diver, the diver will know where to go even if they become disorientated due to nitrogen narcosis. This solution also uses the accelerometer to measure vertical acceleration to provide a warning for pulmonary embolism, as well as uses a timer found in the processor to warn the user if they are running out of oxygen. These values are then displayed using a series of multicolored LEDs around the dive goggles. After initial testing it was found that using the accelerometer to measure vertical acceleration is not a valid option. This is due to the vertical acceleration limit heavily depending on the depth of the diver as well as the time spent at each depth. For the final design, a constant LED display of orientation as well as time remaining was successfully implemented in a dive mask with a price point reasonable to work in tandem with the current dive computers. This resulted in a device that can mitigate the risks of nitrogen narcosis, the most dangerous risk of diving not that the current dive watches ignore, as well as asphyxiation. While not being fully tested for underwater use, due to all the necessary components fitting inside the dive mask, it should be possible to create a fully waterproof electronic dive mask

Building ArtBots to attract students into STEM learning

There is an increasing worldwide demand for people educated into science and technology. Unfortunately, girls and underprivileged students are often underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education programs. We believe that by inclusion of art in these programs, educational activities might become more attractive to a broader audience. In this work we present an example of such an educational activity: an international robotics and art week for secondary school students. This educational activity builds up on the project-based and inquiry learning framework. This article is intended as a brief manual to help others organise such an activity. It also gives insights in how we led a highly heterogeneous group of students into learning STEM and becoming science and technology ambassadors for their peers

Maravilla v. J.R. Simplot Company Clerk\u27s Record Dckt. 43538

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