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Last updated on February 07, 2024 at 17:00 PDT
CHANGE HISTORY
02/07/2024 Initial release.

CLASS REFERENCE DOCUMENTS:

CLASS LECTURE READINGS, SLIDES, AND GUIDANCE:

01/10/24 Lecture #1: Introduction to the Course Slides

01/17/24 Lecture #2: Introduction to the Political Process and Political Facts of Life Slides, Required Reading (1 of 2) and (2 of 2)

01/24/24 Lecture #3: The US Federal Government Budgetary Process Slides, Required Reading

01/31/24 Practice Case Study: A Realistic Program Scenario Slides, Required Reading

02/07/24 Lecture #5: How to do the Homework Slides

Lectures from Spring 2023, yet to be updated
02/14/24 Case Study #1: U.S. Space Stations (MOL, Skylab, SSF, ISS) Slides, Required Reading

02/21/24 Case Study #2: U.S. Manned Launch Vehicles (Apollo, Shuttle & future) Slides, Required Reading

02/28/24 Case Study #3: V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Slides, Required Reading

03/06/24 Applying Lecture 4 & 5 concepts to Case Study 1-3 Slides

03/14/24 SPRING BREAK (no class lecture)

03/20/24 Case Study #4: Ground Transportation Infrastructure (Roads, Autos, Trucks, Trains, etc.) Slides, Required Reading

03/27/24 Case Study #5: Basic Research Projects (Superconducting Supercollider) Slides, Required Reading

04/03/24 Case Study #6: Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Systems (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) Slides, Required Reading

04/10/24 Applying Lecture 4 & 5 concepts to Case Study 5-7 Slides

04/17/24 Case Study #7: Case Study #7 – Joint Strike Fighter (JSF/F35) Slides, Required Reading

04/24/24 Research Paper Workshop Slides

05/01/24 FINAL EXAM WEEK (no class lecture)

05/08/24 FINAL EXAM WEEK (no class lecture)

(RETIRED versions of Case Studies, provided here for reference only)

RETIRED Case Study: National Aerospace Plane (NASP) (retired version, for reference only) Reading and Slides

RETIRED Case Study: The Assured Crew Return Vehicle (ACRV) (retired version, for reference only) Reading and Slides

RETIRED Case Study: Federal Fire-Fighting Process (retired version, for reference only) Slides, Reading

RETIRED Case Study: Sardar Sarovar Dam (non-US) (retired version, for reference only) Slides, Reading

REFERENCE BOOKS

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition
by Kate L. Turabian, The University of Chicago Press, Ninth Edition (published April 2018),
Cloth Cover ($35.00) ISBN: 9780226494425, Paperback ($18.00) ISBN: 9780226430577

The following books may provide some useful information for your research.
Some of these were textbooks used in prior semesters of this class.
All are now out-of-print but may be found in your local library,
or used copies may be available through such sources as Amazon.com or Abebooks.com.

Technology and Politics edited by Michael E. Kraft and Norman J. Vig, Paperback, © 1988 Duke University Press, Durham NC, ISBN 0-8228-0846-0

The Power Game by Hedrick Smith, Paperback, © 1988 Ballantine Books/Random House Inc., New York NY, ISBN 0-345-36015-X

The Technology Pork Barrel edited by Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll, Paperback, © 1991 The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, ISBN 0-8157-1507-2

Social Issues In Technology (Second Edition) by Paul A. Alcorn, Hardback, © 1997 Prentice-Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River NJ, ISBN 0-13-459876-8

USEFUL ON-LINE LINKS

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