May 9, 2016  

New 'Boiler Bytes' segments explore Purdue people, projects

Three new installments in the video news series "Boiler Bytes" are now online, furnishing fresh glimpses into the ways Purdue makes a difference in lives and knowledge.

The three segments, each about six to nine minutes in length, are:

* Jocelyn Dunn -- Jocelyn Dunn, a Purdue industrial engineering doctoral student, spent eight months living in a domed habitat mimicking life on a Martian outpost as part of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) mission. Dunn and five other researchers lived in a habitat located at an elevation of about 8,000 feet in an abandoned quarry on the northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. The program focused on the study of social, interpersonal and cognitive factors that affect team performance during long-duration space travel, such as missions to Mars.

* Asteroid chipper tool -- Undergraduate students in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics' AAE418 Zero-gravity Flight Experiment class were selected by NASA as part of a nationwide competition to develop a prototype asteroid chipping tool. The student team, guided by Professor Steven Collicott, tested their prototype in Houston at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab, which is a large pool used for various training and testing purposes, most commonly for extravehicular activity (EVA or spacewalks) training for NASA astronauts.

* Intelligent scenery -- A Purdue Department of Theatre class is teaming up students from different disciplines to create a programmable wireless automation system that moves scenery onstage during performances. Advised by Rich Dionne, clinical assistant professor, the team is designing intelligent features for its Intelligent Scenery Simulation Platform (also known as IZZY), going beyond basic automation into the responsive capacity of robotics, so it can detect the location of other set pieces or adapt to a changing environment onstage.

Previous "Boiler Bytes" segments also are online at www.purdue.edu/boilerbytes and www.youtube.com/purdue

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