IAASS Space Safety Academy

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IAASS Space Safety Academy
Battery Safety for Human Space Flight

11-12 May 2007, Chicago


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Course Description

• Title of Training Battery Safety for Human Space
  Flight
• Targeted Audience Graduate students and
  engineers interested in designing batteries for
  space applications.
• Length of Course One day

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Why, What, How Who

• Why You Need to Know this
• To make the right battery choice
• Safe design
• Workable design
• Safety hazards with different
• battery chemistries
• Factors affecting performance
• Factors affecting safety

Who leads You Through the Maze -Instructor with
long experience in field of Battery Safety for
Human Space Application

What you will Learn - Basic Electrochemical
Equations - Electrochemical Principles and
Reactions - Components and type of cells -
Battery Configuration - Cell Chemistries - Hazard
Controls - Rechargeable or Secondary
Batteries - Safety Tips - Battery Test Process -
Performance Test - Abuse Test - Qualification
Test - Things to Remember
What You will Take Away -The course binder with
all presentations -A selected set of
documents -Certificate of Course Completion
How You Will Learn It -Verbal instruction using
Power Point -Videos and Photographs -Case studies
-Preparing/completing forms
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Instructor

• Name Judith A. Jeevarajan, Ph.D.
• Address 2101 NASA Parkway, Mail Stop EP5,
  Houston, TX 77058
• Telephone Number 281-483-4528 (work)
• E-mail judith.a.jeevarajan_at_nasa.gov
• Affiliation with IAASS Fellow Member

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Registration

• Course Date 11 May 2007
• Time Starting 8.30 hrs, ending 17.30 hrs, Friday
  11 May
• Location Chicago
• Address Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum,
  1300 S. Lake Shore Drive,
• Chicago, IL 60605-2403 (USA)
• Registration on-line www.congrex.nl/07a02
• Registration Fee 250 (before 3 April 2007
  afterwards 350)-10 discount for IAASS
  individual members -Registration fee due upon
  registration -Participants number limited to 15
  students (early registration recommended)
• In case less than 5
  students are enrolled the course may be cancelled
• Contacts ESA Conference Bureau
  e-mail esa.conference.bureau_at_esa.int
  Tel.[phone]
  Fax[phone]

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Instructors Biography

• Dr. Judith A. Jeevarajan
• Dr. J. Jeevarajan, has worked as a civil servant
  at NASA-Johnson Space Center in the capacity of
  Senior Scientist since November, 2003. Before
  that, she performed the same duties as a
  contractor, working for Lockheed Martin Space
  Operations at NASA-JSC. She has a M.S. in
  Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame (91)
  and graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry
  (Electrochemistry) from the University of Alabama
  in Tuscaloosa in 1995. After a short period of
  work for a small business company, she worked for
  a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Texas AM
  University on NASA projects, that was immediately
  followed by her being hired on by Lockheed Martin
  Space Operations in Houston. She has 10 years of
  battery experience with her main focus being
  li-ion cell and battery research. Dr. Jeevarajan
  represents the battery group at all the NASA
  safety panels, which involves working with the
  International Partners. She presents papers
  every year and has served as an invited speaker
  and/or Session Chair at well-recognized
  conferences such as The Electrochemical Society,
  The Power Sources Conference, The Space Power
  Workshop, The Payload Safety Conference, The
  International Association for the Advancement of
  Space Safety, The IECEC, The AIAA and The NASA
  Battery Workshop. Dr. Jeevarajan is listed in a
  few of the Marquis Whos Whos of which
  International Whos Who of Professional Women in
  Science and Engineering are Whos Who of
  American Women are two of them. Dr. Jeevarajan
  has about 33 paper presentations on battery
  performance and safety to her credit.