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Session Category: HUB SciTech 2023
Sustainability Leadership: Addressing Industry Developments in Aviation
Leaders from Airbus, Boeing, and GE Aviation continue their discussion begun at the 2022 AIAA AVIATION Forum around driving change in the aviation industry around sustainability.
Augmented Reality Bridges the Gap Between Engineering and The Shop Floor
Score AR will share its visual solution of the future — WorkLink — that dramatically simplifies the human element of complex processes: increasing the performance of technicians through faster training, time to information, reduction in human error/rework, and vast improvement in process accuracy.
Theme: Digital Innovation
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Getting Materials to Commercialization: Startups Lead the Way
Startups play a unique enabler role to vet novel research ideas and results in commercial applications and markets but are a currently untapped resource for the AIAA community. This panel will feature insights and lessons learned from the CEOs of HopFlyt, North American Wave Engine Corporation, and 4th Phase Technologies.
Theme: Technologies of the Future
Multiphysics-Focused Simulation Technology for Hypersonic R&D
Hear from Hexagon about its multiphysics-focused computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software that has been developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Aerospace to address some of the numerical challenges specific to simulating hypersonic flight – stability, robustness, and coupling to related physics-like structural mechanics and kinematics. Details of the hypersonic flow solver, the co-simulation platform, and the results of their latest validation studies will be reviewed.
Theme: Technologies of the Future
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Advancements in Thermoplastics for Aerospace Structures
Join this discussion, led by Spirit Aerosystems, on new developments that are bringing thermoplastics to the aerospace marketplace.
Theme: Technologies of the Future
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Student Talk: FIRE Rockets, It’s Where Dreams Launch!
Hear directly from students involved in the FIRE Rocket program. This exciting STEM experience involves middle and high school students in model rocketry and introduces them to aerospace principles and career options.
Theme: Workforce Connections
Welcome to the HUB!
Join leaders from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) — the sponsor of the HUB — as they welcome attendees to the Exposition Hall and share their excitement around the 2023 AIAA SciTech Forum.
Theme: Stories That Inspire
NASA’S BIG (Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing) Idea Challenge
Hear about the AIAA Caltech Student Chapter’s success story after being twice selected a finalist for the NASA BIG Idea Challenge. Their 2021 project, HOMES EDS (Electrodynamic Dust Shielding), was also the winner of the AIAA Region VI Student Conference in 2021 and the AIAA International Student Conference held at the 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum. They will share their 2022 project, Lunar Architecture for Tree Traversal In-service-of Cabled Exploration (LATTICE), which was also the winner of the AIAA Region VI Student Conference in 2022 and won the Most Visionary Concept Award at the 2022 NASA BIG Idea Challenge Forum.
Theme: Workforce Connections
Student Talk: Designing and Building CubeSats
Meet some extraordinary high schoolers already working in space. These students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology will share their experience building their latest 2U CubeSat, TJREVERB, deployed from the International Space Station on 29 December 2022.
Theme: Workforce Connections