Interplanetary Supply Chain Management & Logistics
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Date
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Time
6:15PM
Speaker
Olivier L. de Weck, Ph.D. - Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Description
Traditionally, astronauts carried everything they needed with them on space exploration missions to the Moon (Apollo 1969-1972) and every flight was treated as its own separate endeavor. The future vision for exploration of the Moon, Mars and Beyond on the other hand will take a sustainable systems approach to exploration, including aspects of supply chain management on Earth, in space and on planetary surfaces. This might include a combination of new concepts such as pre-positioning of habitats and consumables, the use of in-situ resources and separation of crewed and robotic flights. MIT is starting a new project, jointly with Payload Systems Inc., Caltech/JPL and United Space Alliance, that will combine methods and principles from terrestrial supply chains with new models of interplanetary logistics. This effort is developing a time-varying discrete massflow network simulation that will assist NASA and its partners in estimating the supply chain performance of various proposed mission architectures and traffic models. The talk will focus on the systems engineering aspects of the project.
Speaker Bio
Olivier L. de Weck is currently an assistant professor with a dual appointment between the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Engineering Systems Division (ESD) at MIT. His research interests are in Integrated Modeling and Simulation, Multidisciplinary Design Optimization and System Architecture. In 2001 he obtained a Ph.D. in Aerospace Systems from MIT. From 1987 to 1993 he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland, where he earned a Diplom Ingenieur degree in industrial engineering. From 1993 to 1997 he served as liaison engineer and later as engineering program manager for the Swiss F/A-18 program at McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) in St. Louis, MO. Since 2002 he is a member of the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Technical Committee (TC) and he joined INCOSE in 2004.
Location
Marriott Boston Newton
2345 Commonwealth Ave
Newton, MA 02466
617-969-1000
Cost
INCOSE Members $10
Non members: Free for first meeting
Student members: Free
Payable at the door.
Reservations
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