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Tour #1 – Tuesday, August 10
2:00pm – 6:00pm*
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151
Visit 163 aircraft and 154 large space artifacts, along with more than
1,500 smaller objects, on display in the National Air and Space Museum's
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. Artifacts at the center are displayed
in open hangar settings rather than exhibition galleries. Space history
artifacts include armament missiles and rockets used in earth atmosphere.
Cost – $20
* Tour end time is approximate
Tour #2 – Tuesday, August 10
1:00p.m. – 5:00p.m*
NIST- National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Come see how the National Institute of Standards and Technology promotes
U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement
science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security
and improve our quality of life. You'll see the large-scale fire research
facility, the nanofluids heat transfer laboratory, the flow calibration
facilities, and other laboratories
related to the thermal sciences.
Tour will consist of 15 minutes per lab with 5 minutes to travel from
lab to lab.
Participants must wear close-toed shoes and long pants.
Please note: Participants
must complete and return this foreign
visitor form in order to take this tour.
Tour Limited to 50
Cost – $20
* End time approximate
Tour #3 – Tuesday, August 10
2:00p.m. – 6:00p.m*
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland
Visit the outstanding educational facilities for engineering at the U.S.
Naval Academy for course instruction and research by midshipmen and faculty.
The Naval Academy graduates officers for the United States Navy and Marine
Corp. The mission statement of the Naval Academy is "To develop Midshipmen
morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals
of duty, honor and loyalty in order to graduate leaders who are dedicated
to a career of naval service and have potential for future development
in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command,
citizenship and government."
Tour limited to 50 people
Attendees must bring a government issued photo ID, such as a passport.
US
Citizens may bring a drivers license.
Cost – $20
* End time approximate
Tour #4 – Tuesday, August 10
2:00p.m. – 6:00p.m*
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Tour the thermofluids laboratories at UMD. The labs to be visited are
the Combustion Engineering Lab (Gupta), Heat Pump Lab (Radermacher), Small
and Smart Thermal Systems Lab (Ohadi), Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer and
Energy Conversion Lab (Yang), Ballard Power Systems Fuel Cell Lab (Jackson),
Thermal Packaging of Photonics and Electronic Systems Lab (Bar-Cohen),
and the Phase Change Heat Transfer Lab (Kim). About 20 minutes will be
spent in each of the laboratories.
*Tour Limited to 100
Cost – $20
* End time approximate
Visitors wishing to arrange guided tours of Washington DC
can go to the following sites:
City Segway Tours: http://citysegwaytours.com/washington-dc
Grayline Tours: http://www.graylinedc.com/
Tourmobile Sightseeing: http://www.tourmobile.com/
DC Ducks: http://www.dcducks.com/
Viatoor: http://www.viator.com/Washington-DC/d657-ttd
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