Finding Our Way by Scott Lyon
Graduate Seminar January 22nd, 2024
256 CB, 4-5PM
Biography: Bachelors, Masters and PH.D. in mechanical engineering (BYU) with a little more than 20 years of industrial experience. I am currently a principle fellow at L3Harris. I enjoy and have worked significantly with the universities in the area on capstone efforts and other research efforts funded by L3Harris.
Abstract: Scott Lyon has been working in the field of inertial navigation, pointing, and tracking associated with communication systems. Inertial navigation is the art of determining where a given platform is and how it is oriented in space relative to an inertial reference frame. Inertial navigation is required to point an antenna at a target so that the data link can communicate with distant systems. Finding our destination in life or in engineering starts by understanding where we are and having clear objectives for our future that are consistent with our knowledge of fundamental laws/properties/truths. In this discussion we will be looking at aspects of the talk “A Steady, Upward Course” -Henry B. Eyring (Sep 2001) & Henry J. Eyring -Revisited (Apr 2019) in the light of inertial navigation, control systems, and engineering. We will look at examples and stories from a career of more than 20 years developing communication equipment. Scott has worked on systems that are stationary on land, systems on moving land vehicles, system that are out at sea, systems that fly in the sky above us and systems that orbit the earth. We hope that you will take this opportunity to join us and speak with and hear from one of our alumni.