Seeing Red – The James Webb Space Telescope – IEEE Central Texas Consultants' Network

Topic:	Seeing Red – The James Webb Space Telescope
Abstract:	The JWST is a new space telescope observatory has been built and recently launched. This portends an exciting new capability to enable science discoveries from the Solar System to the edge of the Universe. The JWST and its instruments are sensitive to near and mid infrared wavelengths. The motivation for choosing these bands and expected types of science available will be discussed. The science results are not available yet as the instrument commissioning is currently in progress so this talk will focus on some of the technologies and design of this latest and largest aperture space telescope ever launched.
Speaker:	Clyde Springen email: springen@sbcglobal.net
Speaker’s bio	Clyde Springen is a retired software, systems and electrical engineer, an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy & Engineering. He was privileged to have a 47 year career as an engineer and teacher. Engineering alumnus of Texas Instruments, Lockheed Missiles and Space, Northrop Grumman and Textron. Primary technology areas in Engineering were in Artificial Intelligence robotics, machine vision, and expert planning systems, tracking and data fusion, and in Astronomy – photometry analysis and galactic simulation. Worked on applications including surface systems for missiles and rockets, conveyor belt robot and vision systems, automated test systems and corps level army battle planning systems. Some highlights include creating a rule-based countdown sequencer for NASA, developing an innovative state-machine based application programming language for robots resulting in two patents and developing a fault-isolation sub-system to diagnose failure in digital circuit cards. As a teacher at Austin Community College taught Introduction to Engineering, Solar System and Stellar Astronomy courses. Also obtained a NASA grant to incorporate satellite telemetry into engineering curriculum.
Date & Time:	Wednesday, June 22 2022 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Location:	Asian American Resource Center (AARC) 8401 Cameron Road Austin, TX United States 78754 Building: Community Room Room Number: Classroom #8
Map:	Click to see map location
Cost:
Reservations:	Please click Registration link to register.
Registration:	https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/315952

Topic:

Seeing Red – The James Webb Space Telescope

Abstract:

The JWST is a new space telescope observatory has been built and recently launched. This portends an exciting new capability to enable science discoveries from the Solar System to the edge of the Universe. The JWST and its instruments are sensitive to near and mid infrared wavelengths. The motivation for choosing these bands and expected types of science available will be discussed. The science results are not available yet as the instrument commissioning is currently in progress so this talk will focus on some of the technologies and design of this latest and largest aperture space telescope ever launched.

Speaker:

Clyde Springen

email: springen@sbcglobal.net

Speaker’s bio

Clyde Springen is a retired software, systems and electrical engineer, an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy & Engineering.

He was privileged to have a 47 year career as an engineer and teacher. Engineering
alumnus of Texas Instruments, Lockheed Missiles and Space, Northrop Grumman and Textron. Primary technology areas in Engineering were in Artificial Intelligence robotics, machine vision, and expert planning systems, tracking and data fusion, and in Astronomy – photometry analysis and galactic simulation. Worked on applications including surface systems for missiles and rockets, conveyor belt robot and vision systems, automated test systems and corps level army battle planning systems. Some highlights include creating a rule-based countdown sequencer for NASA, developing an innovative state-machine based application programming language for robots resulting in two patents and developing a fault-isolation sub-system to diagnose failure in digital circuit cards. As a teacher at Austin Community College taught Introduction to Engineering, Solar System and Stellar Astronomy courses. Also obtained a NASA grant to incorporate satellite telemetry into engineering curriculum.

Date & Time:

Wednesday, June 22 2022 : networking at 6:00 p.m., business and program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Location:

Asian American Resource Center (AARC)
8401 Cameron Road
Austin, TX
United States 78754
Building: Community Room
Room Number: Classroom #8

Map:

Click to see map location

Cost:

Reservations:

Please click Registration link to register.

Registration:

https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/315952