Investments in Our Future: Exploring Space through Innovation and Technology
Speaker:
Robert Braun
20 Oct 2010
11:00 AM
Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, 1140 Howe Hall
NASA Chief Technologist Robert Braun will speak about NASA's efforts to open up the solar system for robotic and human exploration. He will also discuss the impact space research and technology may have on broader societal challenges in energy, environment and national security. Braun has more than twenty years of experience in design and analysis of planetary exploration systems, including several robotic space flight systems for the exploration of Mars. He was appointed NASA Chief Technologist in February 2010 and is the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The T. A. Wilson Lecture in Aerospace Engineering.
Robert Braun received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State, M.S. in Astronautics from the George Washington University, and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. He has received the 1999 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals, two NASA Inventions and Contributions Team Awards, and seven NASA Group Achievement Awards. He is an AIAA Fellow and the primary author or co-author of over 175 technical publications in the fields of planetary exploration, atmospheric entry, multidisciplinary design optimization, and space systems engineering.