From: CANSAS::IN%"LLEWELLYN@DANSAS.usask.ca" 7-SEP-1996 22:17:37.26 To: IN%"white@irg.usask.ca", IN%"gene@irg.usask.ca", IN%"osterried@DANSAS.usask.ca", IN%"degenstein@SKISAS.USask.CA", IN%"woodh@engr.usask.ca", IN%"duanes@eagle.wbm.ca", IN%"scitec.eng@eagle.wbm.ca", IN%"jeffj@eagle.wbm.ca", IN%"efurkal@plasma.usask.ca", I CC: Subj: The AO response etc. Return-path: Received: from skycat.usask.ca by SKISAS.USask.CA (PMDF V4.2-11 #3676) id <01I97OOPAXHC8WW326@SKISAS.USask.CA>; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 22:17:17 GMT Received: from dansas.usask.ca (dansas.usask.ca) by sask.usask.ca (PMDF V5.0-6 #15020) id <01I97C40ZDN48Y9KIR@sask.usask.ca>; Sat, 07 Sep 1996 16:17:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from dansas.usask.ca (dansas.usask.ca) by sask.usask.ca (PMDF V5.0-6 #15020) id <01I97C3TTESW91XM3G@sask.usask.ca>; Sat, 07 Sep 1996 16:16:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from DANSAS.USASK.CA by DANSAS.USASK.CA (PMDF V5.0-6 #15020) id <01I97ONOK0EO0001AA@DANSAS.USASK.CA>; Sat, 07 Sep 1996 22:16:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 22:16:42 +0000 (GMT) From: LLEWELLYN@DANSAS.usask.ca Subject: The AO response etc. To: white@irg.usask.ca, gene@irg.usask.ca, osterried@DANSAS.usask.ca, degenstein@SKISAS.USask.CA, woodh@engr.usask.ca, duanes@eagle.wbm.ca, scitec.eng@eagle.wbm.ca, jeffj@eagle.wbm.ca, efurkal@plasma.usask.ca, dolovich@engr.usask.ca, buggj@engr.usask.ca, jas140@mail.usask.ca, Ron_Bolton@engr.usask.ca, soteros@snoopy.usask.ca, raj@snoopy.usask.ca, caplan@skatter.usask.ca, David.Steele@sask.usask.ca, smolyakov@sask.usask.ca, matthias.huber@sask.usask.ca, kustov@SKISAS.USask.CA, schiffler@SKISAS.USask.CA, llewellyn@SKISAS.USask.CA Message-id: <01I97ONOK2AQ0001AA@DANSAS.USASK.CA> X-Envelope-to: degenstein, kustov, llewellyn, schiffler, STEELE X-VMS-To: @AO X-VMS-Cc: LLEWELLYN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Dear All: I want to thank everyone who came to the meeting on Friday and for the general support of the proposal idea, special thanks are due to our Industrial Partner. I know that what we are contemplating is different (crazy) but the need to be proactive rather than reactive is fun. Each day I conclude that this is more than an exercise, I really do believe that we can win. I have made a booking request for Room 175 Physics for Wednesday and Friday of this week. The scheduled time is 1.30pm. Please brainstorm etc. the timeline is short. Below you will find the list of those people who were at the second meeting. I have also appended a so-called Class outline that I would like to submit to the Department and to the College. If there is anything that you want changed please do not hesitate to mark up the description and return it to me, via email please. Best wishes, Ted. ************************************************************* Attendees, or proxy. Megan White, PEP, white@irg.usask.ca, Graduate Student, 6452 Eugene McDougall, PEP, gene@irg.usask.ca, Graduate Student, 6452 Ron Osterried, PEP, osterried@dansas.usask.ca, Engineer, 6457 Doug Degenstein, PEP, degenstein@skisas.usask.ca, Grad. Student, 6452 Hugh Wood, EE, woodh@engr.usask.ca, Faculty, 5391 Duane Sniezek, Sci-Tec, duanes@eagle.wbm.ca, Industrial Partner, 934-7010 Eugene Ivanov, Sci-Tec, scitec.eng@eagle.wbm.ca, Industrial Partner, 934-7010 Jeff Johnston, Sci-Tec, jeffj@eagle.wbm.ca, Industrial Partner, 934-7010 Eugene Furkal, PEP, efurkal@plasma.usask.ca, Graduate Student, 653-4855 Allan Dolovich, ME, dolovich@dvinci.usask.ca, Faculty, 5468 Jim Bugg, ME, buggj@engr.usask.ca, Faculty, 5469 John Steele, ME, jas140@mail.usask.ca, Graduate Student, 343-1797 Ron Bolton, EE, Ron_Bolton@engr.usask.ca, Faculty, 5412 Chris Soteros, Math & Stat, soteros@math.usask.ca, Faculty, 6118 Raj Srinivasan, Math & Stat, raj@math.usask.ca, Faculty, 6128 Henry Caplan, PEP, caplan@skatter.usask.ca, Faculty, 6396 David Steele, PEP, David.Steele@usask.ca, Faculty, 6447 Andrei Smolyakov, PEP, smolyakov@sask.usask.ca, Faculty, 6432 Matthias Huber, PEP, matthias.huber@usask.ca, Graduate Student, 6457 Sasha Kustov, PEP, kustov@skisas.usask.ca, Faculty, 6426 Andreas Schiffler, PEP, schiffler@skisas.usask.ca, Graduate Student, 6457 E.J. (Ted) Llewellyn, PEP, llewellyn@skisas.usask.ca, Faculty, 6441 Class Description Phys 893.3 -- Special topics in Physics and Engineering Physics This class will involve the preparation and submission of a Small Payload Proposal in response to the Canadian Space Agency Announcement of Opportunity dated July 31, 1996. The class will use lectures and discussion groups to develop the material for the proposal. The students will be primarily associated with those groups that concentrate in their area of research interest, although they will necessarily interact with other groups. Each topic group will be led at least one faculty member. Throughout the class there will be an on-going involvement with the Industrial Partner associated with the response submission. For this class the Industrial Partner is Sci-Tec Instruments Inc. The involvement of an Industrial Partner is a CSA imposed condition of compliance. Students will learn from this class the required approaches to task definition, proposal response, project management as well advanced technical requirements in their area of interest. The overall project, i.e. the submission, will be under the direction of a Principal Investigator who will be selected by the entire team, faculty and graduate students. However, the class will be led by a Proposal Adviser, E.J. Llewellyn. The possible groups, and primary topics, are: 1. Scientific concept and feasibility. 2. Instrumentation design, power, mass budgets. 3. Data transmission, effects of noise, compression etc. 4. Electronics for Payload, including temperature, humidity etc. specification. 5. Risk and feasibility analysis. 6. Management, including cost. There will be defined milestones in the preparation process and regular reviews. These will be used to assess the performance of the students. These reviews and the individual contributions to the final submission will be used to determine a final mark for this class. A necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the students to pass this class is that the submission be made to CSA and meet all dead-lines, i.e. be in Ottawa before 1600EST, January 3, 1997. The class will not involve any additional cost to the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics as it will use existing resources within the Department and the participating Research Groups. Faculty and external advisers involved with the class. Hugh Wood, Head EE, presently holds CSA contracts, atmospheric science expertise. Duane Sniezek, VP R and D, Sci-Tec (Industrial Partner). Eugene Ivanov, Optical Engineer, Sci-Tec (Industrial Partner) Jeff Johnston, Atmospheric Scientist, Sci-Tec, (Industrial Partner) Allan Dolovich, ME, Tomography expertise. Jim Bugg, ME, Thermal expertise. Ron Bolton, EE, Integrated Circuit expertise. Chris Soteros, Math & Stat, Large scale Computing expertise. Raj Srinivasan, Math & Stat, Noise modelling expertise. Henry Caplan, Head PEP, Project Management expertise. David Steele, PEP, presently holds CSA contracts, atmospheric imaging expertise. Andrei Smolyakov, PEP, theoretical modelling expertise. Sasha Kustov, PEP, atmospheric science expertise. E.J. (Ted) Llewellyn, PEP, presently holds CSA contracts, PI for Odin.