Successful call for the conference organized by ARCyTAN with Javier Gómez-Elvira and Elizabeth Córdoba, NASA project leaders
On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, on the eve of the Artemis I mission, whose objective is to rehearse the expedition in which “the first woman and the first non-white person” will walk on the lunar soil within three years, according to plans of NASA, the Conference organized by ARCyTAN took place, which, once again, is organized with the support of the Secretariat of Scientific Dissemination of the University of Seville (US) , and the direction of the ETS of Engineering (ETSi) of the US , with the title “NASA project leaders will talk about the present and future of space at the ETSi.”
More than 400 people attended the Conference organized by ARCyTAN
The conference featured top-level experts such as Dr. Javier Gómez-Elvira, Aeronautical Engineer (CAB, associated with NASA NAI) , and leader of NASA's REMS project on Mars; and Dr. Elizabeth Córdoba (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL) , Engineer from MIT (USA), and Head of Systems for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover, one of the women with the highest responsibilities at this institution, who participated by videoconference.
The event is part of the ARCyTAN program, High Performance in Science and Technology in ANdalucía , which since 2015, and under the coordination of Prof. Manuel Toscano and the management of the ETSi, has been working with excellent pre-university students, a pool of our university. Several dozen high school students from all over Andalusia come to the ETSi some Friday afternoons throughout the course to receive talks, workshops, technological visits and pre-university orientation. Once a year, its activity leads to this great conference, to which the entire educational community of Andalusia is invited, and in which hundreds of attendees occupy the ETSi Assembly Hall each year.
After the presentation of the event and before the start of the conference, the admission diplomas for the ARCyTAN Program were handed out , which the students received with mentions of bronze, silver and gold as a result of tests carried out at the ETSi. the same afternoon of November 15. At the conclusion of the presentations, the usual and interesting question time from the audience took place. About twenty people (including teachers, students and PAS) collaborated in the different activities that were held during the afternoon.
In previous editions, top experts such as the Secretary of State for Energy José Domínguez Abascal , Aníbal Ollero (Rei Jaume I Award for Aerial Robotics) , Juan Pérez Mercader ( Univ. of Harvard-NASA) , the weatherman José Antonio Maldonado , Juan Ignacio Cirac (candidate for the Nobel Prize), or José Luis Manzanares Japan (founder and president of AYESA) have touched on major topics of interest to society, such as: Space, Energy and Climate Change, Robotics of the Future , Entrepreneurship in Engineering, and Quantum Supercomputing, all within the near horizons 2030-2050.
