Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tracy L. Yother, Purdue University; Mary E. Johnson, Purdue University; Brian Kozak, Purdue University; James Thom, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

operations.An initial assumption was that interested students might already have some extent of spaceoperations knowledge taken from a U.S. perspective, so looking at the industry from theEuropean side of the Atlantic, seemed to be a good way to provide additional perspective.The use of the Handbook of Space Technology proved to be both bad and good. It was bad fromthe perspective that since the sections of the book were provided by so many differentcontributing authors, the focus, continuity of level of detail, and style were not sufficientlyconstant for the interested neophyte beginning study in this discipline. Additionally, manycontributing authors provided an inconsistent of presentation of formula variables and theirdefinitions. The book was good