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SUMMARY:NASA Tech Talks: Lunar Innovations
DESCRIPTION:We want HOU! Join us to discover NASA’s toughest tech challenges—and apply your skills and expertise to solve them. \nAt this month’s NASA Tech Talk\, we’re going to learn more about patents\, innovation\, and space exploration. \nHow do you get patents for systems used on the Moon? How do you even think of something new? In “Lunar Innovations\,” Julie N. Strickland shares two of her patent-awarded systems and the story behind them. From a way to rescue an astronaut to a system that removes heat from a lunar habitat\, Strickland explains the thought process that went into developing these ideas. She breaks down the process from finding a problem worth solving to the amount of detail needed for a patent application. \nPlease join us after the talk for drinks and networking at Second Draught! \n  \nAbout the Speakers \nWith almost 20 years in the aerospace industry\, Julie N. Strickland is an experienced engineer\, project manager\, and innovator. She earned her degree in mechanical engineering so that she could facilitate space exploration. She worked on the design of the next generation spacesuit\, the Orion capsule\, and the Space Launch System (SLS). She is a space enthusiast to her core. \nMs. Strickland holds multiple patent awards in the US and internationally. She mentored junior employees over the years\, teaching them how to develop ideas that may become patents. Under her leadership\, the business unit increased invention disclosures by 10%. \nToday\, she works as a Research & Development Project Manager\, teaching a new team how to better innovate. Her business\, Strawberry Innovation\, provides coaching\, presentations\, and workshops. Outside of work\, she enjoys hiking\, writing\, and traveling. Her grand goal is to hike in every state in the nation with 60% of the states hiked so far. \nLearn more about Strickland on her company website at StrawberryInnovation.org \nMontgomery B. Goforth has more than 40 years of experience as both Engineer and Manager in a variety of highly technical space and defense-related efforts.  After working for a small defense contractor specializing in anti-submarine warfare\, he joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 1990.  He has held leadership positions in multiple JSC Directorates and Program Offices. In his current role as Assistant Director of the JSC Engineering Directorate\, he has established a framework to better focus Engineering’s efforts towards Human Spaceflight technology and systems development consistent with JSC and Agency goals for exploration. He has used this framework to guide Engineering’s internal investments and external partnerships supporting Lunar and Mars Exploration. Mr. Goforth was born in East Texas\, raised in Southern California and Arizona\, and graduated from Rice University (BSME 1982\, MSME 1987). \nAbout NASA Tech Talks \nIn these presentations\, occurring the fourth Thursdays of the month\, Mr. Montgomery Goforth and other aerospace subject matter experts will discuss the technology development challenges faced by NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the surrounding Aerospace community in our ongoing efforts as the hub of human spaceflight. Presentations will focus on the ways in which these challenges\, and the associated opportunities\, can be leveraged by Houston’s innovation community. We will continue to identify potential space/terrestrial technologies of interest to Human Spaceflight.  Past NASA Tech Talks have included topics such as: \n\nFrom Space to Startup: Leveraging NASA Technology and Innovation to Propel Your Growing Enterprise\nDisruptive Filter Technology for Spacecraft Water Treatment:  The New Promise of Graphene\nLunar dust capture using novel multiplexed inertial filter\nLunar Passive Fuel Cell Technologies:\nMicrobes in Space
URL:https://iondistrict.com/event/nasa-tech-talks-12/
LOCATION:Ion\, 4201 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aerospace,Founders & Startups,General Community
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