Woman in Engineering and in the Canadian Space Station

By peomc | May 7, 2013

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Organizer: Katherine Diep

Location: Tomken Twin Rinks Auditorium, 4495 Tomken Rd, L4W 1J9, Mississauga, ON

Document: Flyer

Fee: Free (registration required)

Registration: Closed

Sherry will talk about the Canadarm and some of its unique requirements regarding safety, launching, landing, thermal environment, and structure. She will provide some of the technological background involved in the finite element analysis, first using Stardyne and then Nastran.

She will present the three Canadian space robots. She worked on other space projects, including Olympus, a European satellite development, and Radarsat 1.

Presenter: Sherry Draisey, P.Eng., Good Vibrations Engineering Ltd.

Sherry worked as a structural engineer at SPAR Aerospace and became manager of the Structures
Group for the Canadian Space Station program.

Note: Seating is limited, and usually, there is a long waiting list. If you are unable to attend, we would appreciate if you could notify us several days in advance. This would allow us to accommodate someone from the waiting list.