2/26/21: Updates, Background Lit. Report, and Readings

 

Agenda and Minutes 

1. Updates and plans. MH noted that the AAS website didn't ask for a lot of the information it used to ask for upon submittal of an abstract. 

2. Background literature update (VJB): Technological Forecasting – A Review, by Ayse Kaya Firat, Wei Lee Woon, & Stuart Madnick, MIT Working Paper CISL# 2008-15 September 2008, http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/wp/2008-15.pdf.

Some generic questions about articles:

       a. What is the source? 
       b. What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper? 
       c. Why is that advance important? 
       d. What important questions arise from the paper for future research? 
       e. What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer? 
       f. What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)? 
       g. What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals? 
       h. Questions from the group? 

For a survey paper, question h may be especially applicable.

Questions that came up, to discuss next time:

- Any more recent surveys that cite this paper? Could check using scholar.google.com.

- What is the difference between technology forecasting and technology foresight?

3. Reading and discussion: 
    a. For the Magee et al. 2016 reading, we finished up to the first full paragraph on p. 245 last time. Next time we will read from this paper since we've neglected it recently.

    b. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we finished up through the 2nd sentence, last par., p. 11.

    c. Our next paper will be Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment.

2/19/21: Updates and readings

Agenda and Minutes 

1. Updates and plans. PT reports the paper was submitted to Advances in Space Research. Everyone should have responded to the publisher's email asking them to register as coauthors. RS shared a video link with live updates on the Perseverance rover that just landed on Mars. VJB reviewed his latest graphs. 

2. Reading and discussion: 
    a. For the Magee et al. 2016 reading, we finished up to the first full paragraph on p. 245.

    b. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we finished p. 9 last time, so we'll start with p. 10 next time. 

    c. Our next paper will be Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment.

2/12/21: Continuing

   Agenda and Minutes 

1. Updates and plans. MH submitted an abstract to AAS. We discussed WMSCI and VJB would like to submit to it. PT has a possibly final draft ready to submit to Advances in Space Research. DB still needs to check it over. 

2. Reading and discussion: 
    a. For the Magee et al. 2016 reading, we finished section 4.4 last time and will start 5 next.

    b. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we finished p. 9, so we'll start with p. 10 next time. 

    c. Our next paper will be Hu et al. 2015, A survey on life prediction of equipment.

    d. VJB showed us the McDowell twitter feed at https://twitter.com/planet4589?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor. 

2/5/21: Focus on plans and readings

  Agenda and Minutes 

1. Updates and plans. VJB has solver working with Excel, but now has to determine right equations to regress. PT is revising his MS-based paper currently. 

2. Reading and discussion: 
    a. For the Magee et al. 2016 reading, we finished section 4.4 last time and will start 5 next.

    b. For the Reynolds and Szerszynski reading, we read up to the last paragraph on p. 8, so we'll start with that paragraph next.