tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-174093662009-09-19T00:58:17.279-05:00metecshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14807433287680424628noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17409366.post-35155900146778395492009-09-18T08:35:00.004-05:002009-09-18T08:37:04.474-05:00

This September METECS is busy visiting Engineering Career Fairs at universities. We have put together a collection of videos, demos, and information so that each student who visits our booth will walk away with an understanding of the exciting work that METECS has to offer.METECS is a small company based on site at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Our primary focus is on simulation work which

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METECS is proud to announce the release of version 2.0 beta of PONG. Congratulations to the employees who have put so much great work into this tool.PONG is a contact dynamics modeling tool that communicates and interacts with Blender, an open source graphics package. PONG takes the creations of users within Blender and exports data files to a real-time contact dynamics engine that can be

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METECS would like to thank our 2009 Summer interns for their hard work this summer.Jessica Turner, Darius Williams, and James MacLean, all did an outstanding job. Contributions included the prototyping of a real-time contact dynamics engine within our simulations, the development of a 3 DOF translational hand controller for use with space vehicle simulations and simulation development, and the

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Drake Deno has been the latest addition to the METECS team and we are very excited to welcome Drake back as a member.Drake recently graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Drake developed a strong interest in dynamic modeling while attending Purdue and in his previous internships with METECS. As a senior, Drake led a two man team that developed an

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The Metecs team is very excited to welcome aboard two interns this summer.Darius Williams is from Pearland, Texas and is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin. In the Spring of 2010 he will receive a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor of Art in French. Darius recently participated in the UT/JSC TRICK program, a modeling and simulation initiative where a team of 8

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Hello to all of the Purdue students!METECS will be attending the upcoming career fair at Purdue University, and we would like to say a special hello to all those who are checking out the website and the company.As a brief introduction, METECS is a small company currently focused on simulation work at NASA's Johnson Space Center.This work requires students with strong work ethic, good

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Angela Reeves is the latest addition to the METECS team and we are very excited to have her as a member.Angela recently graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. She developed an interest in dynamic modeling and simulation while contributing to a guided missile model at an internship located in her hometown of Plano, Texas. While in school,

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We are very happy to announce a new member on the METECS team.Bryce Kovel is a recent graduate of the University of Texas where he obtained an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering. While in Austin, Bryce was responsible for the rendezvous analysis of LSTAR, a mission design project that won second place in the national Ra-scal graduate competition. His undergraduate work was done at Embry-Riddle

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METECS attended the University of Texas Engineering Expo this past week and met many great students.Thank you to all of the students that dropped by our booth to speak with us and learn more about the company. Also, thank you to the expo organizers and staffers. It was a great event and we look forward to returning.

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Metecs employee Pat McCartney was recently the recipient of our company's most prestigious award - the "Empty Envelope Award".Pat's contributions to the company and also to NASA are outstanding. Congratulations to Pat for his achievements. You are greatly appreciated.

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During this Thanksgiving, we at METECS would like to take a moment to say how thankful we are to our team members and our customers. Needless to say, we would not be where we are without such devoted employees.A happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

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We are delighted to welcome aboard the newest addition to the METECS team. Thomas Brain is a recent graduate from the University of Texas where he obtained a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. While there, Thomas was also a contributer to a joint project between NASA and the University of Texas. This project simulated a two-body rendezvous using NASA's Trick simulation environment and also

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Hurricane Ike has changed life in the Houston/Galveston area in just a matter of hours.Metecs would like to express our sympathies to those who lost so much in the storm and the aftermath. We are looking forward to getting back to work at Johnson Space Center and getting our communities back up and running.

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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

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METECS is very grateful to have had three wonderful interns with us this summer. Not only were they a great addition to our team this summer, they also accomplished a great deal!Burton Chen came to METECS from the University of Texas and worked on implementing a Coulomb friction model into NASA's robotics simulation. The friction model uses an iterative numerical procedure proposed by Y.M. Kao,

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Metecs employee Tom Smith was the recipient of an Elite Team Award from the Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division.Tom contributed to the graphics integration as part of a team that demonstrated their distributed simulation capability for the Constellation program.Congratulations Tom!

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Metecs is happy to welcome aboard three interns this summer.Drake Deno is a senior Mechanical Engineering student at Purdue University and is returning for his third internship with Metecs. We have been very grateful to Drake for his work in his previous two internships and we are very happy to have him back helping us again.We also have two first time interns with us from the University of

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Metecs employee Frank Graffagnino recently received a Johnson Space Center Group Achievement Award for his role in the DOUG Graphics for Exploration Development Team. The award reads:For your initiative and innovation in enhancing the DOUG graphics software to support the Constellation Program, CEV, CLV, and Lunar surface operations.Congratulations to Frank and the other members of the group.

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Congratulations to METECS employees Pat McCartney and Frank Graffagnino for their recent NASA awards.Frank received an Elite Team award for his help in adding EVA training scenarios for the Solar Array Wing repair in the Virtual Reality lab at Johnson Space Center. This helped provide critical repair scenario evaluation and procedure verification support, which contributed to the successful

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Metecs has an opening for a Human Resources Manager. See the Opportunities page for more info.

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We want to thank all of our team members and our wonderful customers for helping to make 2007 such a great year. We are really looking forward to an awesome 2008.Have a happy and safe holiday season!

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A marathon just wasn't enough. He needed to run further. How much further? 100 miles.Metecs employee Patrick McCartney recently accomplished one of his goals of a 100 mile run by successfully running the Heartland 100 course in the Flint Hills of Kansas.This less than 12 months after he finished his first marathon! Wow!And to top it off, not only did he finish this 100 mile run, he did it in

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This weekend was the robotics competition for the Space City BEST Hub which includes teams from Houston area intermediate and high schools. The event was a great success thanks to the hard work of students, teachers, mentors, organizers, and volunteers.This year's competition had a Mars rover theme. The robots were required to drive up to a simulated landing vehicle, unload some supplies, and

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John MacLean and An Huynh represented Metecs at the "2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computers and Information In Engineering Conference" in Las Vegas, Nevada where they presented a paper which they co-authored with Leslie Quiocho of NASA's Johnson Space Center. The paper was titled "Investigation of Boundary Conditions for Flexible Multibody Spacecraft

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We are very happy to announce that An Huynh was the recipient of the most prestigious award given by the members of NASA's astronaut corp. Since the "Silver Snoopy" is the astronauts' personal award, receiving it is a special honor. The award consists of: A ceremony where the award is presented by an astronaut A Silver Snoopy pin flown during a NASA mission The commendation letter (

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