Ontario
Association of Physics Teachers
Annual Conference
27 - 29 May 2004
Ontario
Section of the AAPT
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Ontario
Association of Physics Teachers |
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Douglas
A. Staley Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Carleton University |
| Dr. Staley is a graduate of the University
of British Columbia with a combined honours degree in Physics and Mathematics.
He continued his studies at the University of Toronto with a Masters Degree in
Physics, specializing in Meteorology, and he then obtained his Ph.D. degree from
the University of Western Ontario in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Magnetohydrodynamics.
Dr. Staley worked at Spar Aerospace as a Control Systems Specialist, as Subsystem Manager for the CTS Attitude Control System, as manager of an Infrared Surveillance System, and as the Dynamics and Control Manager for the shuttle Remote Manipulator System. He formed his own company in 1976, Ancon Space Technology Corporation, as a consultant in Inertial Systems and Attitude Control Systems. For the past 13 years he has been teaching at Carleton University but continues activities as a World Class consultant for Spacecraft Attitude Control Systems. Most recently he has worked with Telenor on THOR II, Thor III and THOR IV, with INMARSAT on INMARSAT 2 and INMARSAT 3, with Shinawatra on THAICOM 1 and with Bristol Aerospace on SciSat 1. Dr. Staley is the inventor of the GyroWheel which Bristol Aerospace has been developing and which is currently flying on SciSat 1. |
Canada
in Space |
Dr. Staley will discuss Canada’s involvement in space, past, present and future. In 1962, Canada became the third nation to have a presence in space with its deployment of Alouette 1, an ionosphere research satellite. Since then, Canada has been at the forefront of space technology development, and Dr. Staley has been directly or indirectly involved in almost all of the space initiatives of this country. The talk will provide an overview of our major projects during the last 30 years, including the ISIS, ANIK and CTS satellites, the Shuttle “Canadarm”, Radarsat, and our involvement in space science. The development of space technology is a very high-tech enterprise, requiring expertise in mathematics, physics, engineering and computer software. Dr. Staley will review the present state of Canadian Universities, and discuss the future requirements of Canada’s space technology industry. The talk will conclude with a look at some of the Canadian projects that are on the horizon |