- 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. The students will be beginning a program in robotics as part of "Project Lead the Way" and were interested in learning about how robots are currently being used in space. They were also very interested in hearing about the day-to-day job activities of an engineer working with robotics in the space program.

Patrick talked first about the history of the US space program 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.

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 teachers Erin Hattabaugh and Renny Whittenbarger for the opportunity to share about his work at METECS and with NASA.

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