Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first woman astronaut, visited Carleton University on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 to speak with students and tour the university’s cutting-edge aerospace facilities.
Bondar began with a tour of Carleton’s Advanced Cognitive Engineering Laboratory (ACE Lab) in theVisualization and Simulation Centre (VSIM), which aims to discover fundamental principles of human perception and cognition and to apply these principles to the design, implementation and evaluation of advanced human-machine systems. The former astronaut was able to tour several of the university’s five advanced flight simulators. She was accompanied by Rafik Goubran, dean of the research-intensive Faculty of Engineering and Design, and Nimal Rajapakse, vice-president (Research and International).
Bondar concluded her visit by speaking with Carleton President Roseann Runte’s class, Women Travel Writers. The course, offered through the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, focuses on women writers who have recounted their adventures as they sought freedom and acceptance in new worlds they imagined or created, reacting against some social constructs and replicating others.
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