2021 NIAC Day 3
Keynote Speaker - Dane Elliot-Lewis
GE Aviation, National Society of Black Engineers
“The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Vision for a more inclusive and advanced society
This resonates with those who consider themselves a dreamer
We believe in transformative change, envision a society that suspends multiple heavenly bodies
Why are we doing this, why is government money going towards these adventures?
To overcome this small-minded thinking:
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys” - William Preece
Not within a thousand years will man ever fly
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers
Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop
The idea of a personal communicator in every pocket is a pipe dream drivinven by greed.
Inspiration to incubate some new ideas
With 23 years of experience at GE aviation, you can see the love for history, the story of the Panama Canal is resounding, partially because my grandfather was among the West Indian laborers …
Was there a spark or something that influenced you to begin this path of innovation and where did your journey start?
Saturday mornings was spent with a bowl of cereal and cartoons
One cartoon in particular as a five year old: Dastardly and Muttley and their flying machines, a series that follows a villain in wwi biplanes, like roadrunner
The innovation was always around airplanes
Every episode came something new, a new possibility
This began a path to a career in aerospace
A typical adolescence
This is the point where I decided to be a shuttle pilot
Always doodling, astronauts and regimes of light: how to ensure that challenger never happened again
Spent alot of time absorbing technical manuals and trying to improve on the space shuttle
Turns out space camp became the experience that college interviewers were most interested in, 19 Ronald mauradeen scholars
Was sent to Glenn research center at Langley research center
Supported a study on lubricant fuels,
Kitbash spacecraft models into not something more realistic, but something into the starter universe
Saw the interest and asked why don’t you help me out? Want to understand leaps in physics that will enable warp travel
Began working primarily as a scribe
Mark went on tofound the CalCity foundation, interstellar flight as its mission
This was a huge inspiration to be an astronaut, become a nasa engineer and find out which of the military branches is going to train a pair of glasses to fly fighter jets essentially
Turned out a lot of the space companies folded, so things did not go as planned
What he really wanted to do was to design hardware
No awareness that GE was in the aerospace business at the time
Learn the skillsets to become an engineer and spacecraft designer like he is today
Capability to build something and test it and see it in service
Design engineer, combustor aerodynamic (because it is similar to a rocket engine) and mechanical design, GE still has the largest design ever, 16,000 pounds of thrust
Combustion testing manufacturing support
Designed multiple swirlers and production manufacture, learning manufacturing processes
Also got the first two patents around the hardware
Systems engineer
Performance and preliminary design
Commercial engine certification
Advanced engine bid and proposal
Helped certify engine with competitors of the G-38 aircraft analysis of the A-10 warhog, turbo fannage, the next role was in certification
That was the ct-92, in China, with the Chinese equivalent, the FAA, and how it meets all of the expectations, and to lay out the certification plan, what are the tests that need to happen, analyses and in that order
Final roles, most recent roles with GE, most direct led teams of 150…
Engineering manager
Technical execution
Building Teams, people development -that means hiring people, firing people
Process improvement, improved through LEAN in order to reduce overburden
Had a wonderful experience at GE, still an itch that had not been scratched
NSBE is an organization that has six hundred chapters around the world, it was formed int he 1970s through undergraduate studies the organization has evolved over the years, but has now created a professional series, and even special interest groups for specific industries
NSBE: Aerospace Special Interest Group
Technical research
Technical development
Aerospace advocacy
Youth outreach
In terms of technical research, internal promotion along the lines of the aerospace development than research.
Project Arusha - Lunar rover, 20k kg rover designed to transport six astronauts
Cabin structures and radiation protection
Power and drive train, specifically looking at fuel cells
Crew accommodations and habitability
Navigation
East Africa Spaceport
A number of rovers intended to support a lunar base of 48 people
NSBE research east Africa spaceport
Feasibility studies of an equatorial African spaceport
Leverage geographic advantages
Develop local aerospace expertise
Space policy assessment
Business lifecycle cost assessments
Really, it focuses around the potential while focusing on the core competency of of the local and regionals in East Africa
NSBE Research: visions for human spaceflight
Unlimited Horizons publication
Rationales study and graduate as many engineers as possible.
Series within the structure to cater to engineers such as myself
All of the opportunities that NASA has, get your opportunities aligned because here are the benefits that NASA has… you guys need to be involved with NIAC, and they get pointed to this symposium, come here and hear it first hand go to him or others
Q: Naturally flows out of what we just talked about, affects … touched by the story that you went to space camp twice, that you would be belittled and would be made fun of so never told anyone. How do we confront this issue? That kids might be ridiculed for going to space camp?
A: There are STEM forces, look at these as careers, there is a whole field of opportunity here. There is an entirely open space, like white space of opportunity
I can create something here, whether it is a home or a business opportunity
Whether there is going to be career or business here, things we cannot even think of, what is better in terms of leveraging, entrepenuership, legacy to give to the children, opens up perfectly, a bit of a capitalistic bent, but there is really no limit in terms of using a creative experience and mind and make something that no one has ever thought of
Geysers, just a little tease, started with Saturday morning cartoons, strip of the visions of the future, and absolutely transported past visions of the American future, an old book etc…
Just wonder about the role of the visioning
Vision is I’m going to put some details behind completely unrelated thoughts, or however that works for you, a timetable as you work through it. There needs to be some concept of tomorrow or that project and a self-motivating factor, helps organize, plan and how to become like may gemison…
I like to visualize myself in the spacelab or the spacehead module, you don’t get anywhere without some vision to drive you or focus you.
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