Aerospace Human Systems Integration - Bioastronautics

Catalog description

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. This course is designed for graduate students and will provide fundamental interdisciplinary topics related to research, engineering, and manufacturing of systems to support humans in spaceflight or similar extreme environments, Human Systems Integration (HSI); engineering design requirements and operations of EVA suits, space stations, and planetary habitats, the changes in human physiology due to microgravity or hypo-gravity; the space environment in LEO, on the Moon and at Mars, thermal, pressure, radiation, micrometeoroids, g-level; design and functions of life support systems; functional components of spacesuits, past, current and future designs of EVA suits; human anthropometric considerations; specific NASA design requirements for Extravehicular Activity (EVA) and Space Habitat Intravehicular Activity (IVA,) with design solution comparisons; discussion of risk and past spacecraft accidents, both US and Russian; may include seminars by Subject Matter Experts (SME) from NASA, academia and industry, subject to availability. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.