- Metecs News -

Patrick McCartney, a robotics simulation engineer at METECS, spoke to a group of high school students at Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Tennessee last week. Mr. McCartney spoke at Cleveland High School last fall and was invited to come speak again to a new group of students who will be studying biomedical engineering as part of "Project Lead the Way".

Patrick talked about the history of the US space program, provided some examples of how technology developed at NASA has been applied in the medical field, and then transitioned into how robotic manipulators are currently being used to assemble the International Space Station. He also presented detailed information about work he recently performed preparing a high-fidelity simulation to analyze a robotic operation on the Space Station and another application that is being used to develop a rescue scenario for the upcoming Hubble Space Telescope maintenance mission.

It was clear from the numerous questions that the students were very interested in the material being presented. Patrick would like to thank everyone who came and also for being very respectful and attentive during the event. Patrick would also like to thank teacher Erin Hattabaugh for the opportunity to share about his work at METECS and with NASA.

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