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STS.471J Engineering Apollo: The Moon Project as a Complex System | Science, Technology, and Society
This course is a detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to "fly humans to the moon and return them safely to earth" as an example of a complex engineering system. Emphasis is on how the systems worked, the technical and social processes that produced them, mission operations, and historical significance. Guest lectures are featured by MIT-affiliated engineers who contributed to and participated in the Apollo missions. Students work in teams on a final project analyzing an aspect of the historical project to articulate and synthesize ideas in engineering systems.
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- Material Type:
- Online Course
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- May 12, 2016
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- May 12, 2016
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Barbra Bied Sperling
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- Graduate School
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- Language:
- English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
