Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education
Subject
Careers, Engineering Design, Technology
Type
Hands-on Activities, Videos
NASA Role Model: Michael J. Logan
NASA Center: Langley Research Center
Topic: Unmanned Aircraft (UA)
Original Air Date: July 29, 2020
Explore the career of aerospace engineer Michael Logan and learn how he builds drones or unmanned aircraft (UA) at the NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Logan has extensive experience in conceptual design including designs for aircraft from 1-pound UA to 1 million-pound transports.
STEM Short Activity: STEM Learning: Advanced Air Mobility: Air Taxi Design Challenge
Objective: Design an air taxi, work with a group to refine the design, create a model of the air taxi and share the model with the class.
Duration: 1 hour
Materials Needed: Student guide (downloadable), pencil
Difficulty: Moderate
“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students’ questions.