Event
Maryland Day
Saturday, April 28, 2007
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
College Park Campus
Nicole Roop
301 405 8959
nroop@umd.edu
http://www.marylandday.umd.edu/
Explore Our World! Enjoy a FREE fun-filled day of learning, exploration and discovery. Tour engineering facilities, participate in hands-on activities, and discover all that the campus and the Clark School have to offer.
For a listing of all activities and a campus map, please go to www.marylandday.umd.edu
Aerospace activities that day include:
367,000 Gallons of Outer Space 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility
How can we learn about working in space without leaving Earth? The best way is to go underwater. Come see our 50-ft. diameter, 25-ft. deep version of outer space. Demonstrations will be shown of the MX-2 experimental space suit working with a 25-ft. tall robot that repairs satellites and assembles space structures. Take your turn controlling the robot to perform basic tasks underwater.
Extreme Robotics! 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 1309 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Visit the Space Systems Development Lab where students have hands-on experiences developing advanced technology for space travel, transportation to the bottom of the ocean and more. Control a state-of-the-art dexterous space robot being developed for repairing satellites in space. Check out the undersea robot arm which will be used to research sea life under the Arctic in 2007.
Flip, Flop and Fly! 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 2222 J.M. Patterson Bldg.
Get a glimpse of future helicopter technology at the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, recipient of the American Helicopter Society's Bell Award for helicopter research.
Hurricanes, Airplanes, Cars, Trucks, Sailboats, and Submarines: We Do It All! 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel. Tour the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel. Learn how the tunnel works and how it is used in aerodynamic studies. Experience a short blast in the Wind Tunnel. Last tour begins at 3:30 p.m.
Maryland Vision for Space Exploration 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Manufacturing Building
Check out our spacecraft simulator complete with high-fidelity mockup of the Space Shuttle flight deck and Spacelab pallet. Walk around the history of robotics at the Space Systems Laboratory with robots that have repaired Hubble Space Telescope, rescued stranded astronauts and built giant space structures. Drive rovers like those currently exploring Mars and check out our designs for human/robotic teams that will explore the Moon and Mars.
