Design Project II: Boeing Future of Space
ED&G 100: Introduction to Engineering Design The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Spring 2003

Note: Info will be continually added during the course of this project.

Supporting Materials List

1.  Boeing Project Kick-off Presentation:

• Given Wednesday 26 March in 307 Hammond Bldg via video-conference
• Boeing background/overview slides
• Project overview slides
• Boeing Systems Engineering Fundamentals slides

2.  A Day in the Life of the Boeing Company

• From the Boeing Frontiers magazine, highlights the many aspects of Boeing: click here

3.  Extra events

• Lectures Series Beyond Earth: Living on Other Worlds: http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/frontiers/FrontiersIndex.html
• Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Space Day--12 April 2003
• Special EDG100 Session with Lance Bush, 7 April, 5:30 pm, 306 Hammond.
• Lecture: 8 April, 7:00 PM: Lance Bush (NASA), "The International Space Station
  in the 21st Century: Space, Politics, International Relations, & Business" -- in 111 Wartik Lab
• Others TBD

4. Useful Websites:

• The Boeing Company website: http://www.boeing.com 
• NASA's website: http://www.nasa.gov
• Space Mission Analysis and Design website (has lots of links to relevant websites):  http://www.smadcd.net
• Rocket and Space Technology website (excellent website from basics to advanced stuff): http://www.braeunig.us/space/ 
• NASA Cost Estimating Handbook: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/
• Space Launch Vehicles of the World: http://members.aol.com/b14643/spacerockets/index.htm
• Encyclopedia Astronautica:  http://www.friends-partners.ru/partners/mwade/spaceflt.htm
• Track satellites in orbit here: http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html
• International Space Station Commercialization at NASA: http://commercial.hq.nasa.gov/
• JPL's Basics of Spaceflight: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
• Useful design website: http://www.design-engine.com/
• Engineering Fundamentals website (great design resource!): http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm
• Rapid prototypers at the Learning Factory http://www.me.psu.edu/lamancusa/rapidpro/ 
• How Stuff Works website: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
• The following site include some useful info for pricing of different materials: http://www.mcmaster.com
• Others to come

5. Websites of some sample space missions

• Clementine: http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/
• Human spaceflight missions: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
• Advanced Space Transportation Program: http://astp.msfc.nasa.gov/
• Many missions are profiled at http://www.space.com

6. Resource materials prepared by Engineering Design faculty:

• So, you think you might have something patentable, how do you protect it?  Click here for local resources including a chart to find out if your idea is patentable

7. Design lab (312 Hammond) resources:

• Rockets of the World books and posters
• LEGO simple machines activity packs, pneumatic activity packs, eLab alternative energy activity pack
• The New Way Things Work book by David MaCaulay
• Several books on Space Mission design: Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd edition (Space Technology Library), James R. Wertz (Editor)
  Fundamentals of Space System, Vincent L. Pisacane (Editor), Robert C. Moore (Editor)
  Space Transportation: A Systems Approach to Analysis and Design (AIAA Education Series), Walter Edward Hammond
  Design Methodologies for Space Transportation Systems (AIAA Education Series), Walter Edward Hammond
• Models of several rockets, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station

8. Library resources:

• Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components, Robert Parmley, TJ243.I45 2000, on reserve at Engineering Library.
• Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Neil Sclater & Nicholas P. Chironis, TJ181.S28 2001 (third edition) on reserve at Engineering Library.

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Project inquiries: Sven G. Bilén , sbilen@psu.edu
Last revised: 15 June 2005.