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Showing 1 to 20 of 2491 for “"Aerospace"”.
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Aerospace supply chain management
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Architectural disruption in aerospace
… primary sources of competitive advantage in the Aerospace industry. Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) requirements represent a significant disruption to this mode of competition. The United States Department of Defense intends to accelerate the rate of aerospace innovation and inject …
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Digital material aerospace structures
… and performance of digital materials in aerospace structures in three areas: (1) a morphing wing design that adjusts its form to respond to different behavioral requirements; (2) an automated assembly method for truss column structures; and (3) an analysis of the payload and structural …
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Hybrid Control For Aerospace Systems
… algorithms that cope with challenges in aerospace applications. In particular: 1. we propose different impulsive control strategies for the problem of close-range rendezvous between two spacecrafts in elliptic orbits; 2. we design a robust time-sub-optimal controller for a class of linear …
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Precision navigation for aerospace applications
Navigation is important in a variety of aerospace applications, and commonly uses a blend of GPS and inertial sensors. In this thesis, a navigation system is designed, developed, and tested. Several alternatives are discussed, but the ultimate design is a loosely-coupled Extended Kalman Filter …
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Offsets and the aerospace industry
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Overhead management guide for aerospace procurements
This thesis focuses on the management emphasis concerning overhead cost control. Senior personnel within the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) review a multitude of cost information. Due to the nature and complexity of these costs, it is extremely difficult to analyze and interpret cost data and, …
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Gulfstream Aerospace Aircraft Static Position Utility
… for commercial application by Gulfstream Aerospace employees and customers to determine static position data of Gulfstream aircraft. The static position data includes aircraft attitude, nose and main landing gear loads and aircraft ground clearance data.</p> <p>The previous methods used to …
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Aerospace Education in the Sixth Grade
… of this study was twofold: to formulate an aerospace education handbook providing pertinent information and material which may be woven into existing sixth grade courses in the elementary curriculum and to make a careful evaluation of one aerospace program in a sixth grade classroom. The …
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Lean aerospace initiative electronic sector study
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000.
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Lean transformation in aerospace assembly operations
For the past two decades, virtually all manufacturing companies in the United States have adopted or are in the process of adopting lean manufacturing. Globalization has resulted in the increased availability of reliable, low cost sources putting greater pressures on traditional US manufacturing …
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Aeroverse: Aerospace Education in Extended Reality
Aerospace education is a continuously evolving field that is increasingly dependent on digital tools. However, it is ambitious to shift the teaching paradigm to accommodate new cutting-edge technologies. Extended reality (XR), which encompasses augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR), is an example …
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IT management in the aerospace industry
… payoff IT investments. When the North American Aerospace Industry invests less than any other industry in the high risk investments, its foreign counterpart invests more than any other industry. The second major finding is that the governance mechanisms in place are similar in the two Aerospace …
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Fostering innovation across aerospace supplier networks
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2002.
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Lean manufacturing--from automotive to aerospace
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997
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Internal entrepreneurship in the aerospace industry.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1973. M.S.
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Thermal Characterization of Complex Aerospace Structures
… is a crucial issue in many of today's aerospace and space designs. To predict the thermal stresses a structure might be exposed to, the thermal properties of the independent materials used in the design of the structure need to be known. Therefore, a noninvasive estimation procedure …
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Fire fighting in aerospace product development : a study of project capacity and resource planning in an aerospace enterprise
It is broadly recognized in the aerospace industry, as well as many others, that organizations which effectively execute development projects to meet desired cost, schedule, and performance targets for their customers produce higher levels of customer satisfaction and also a significant source of …
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