International Conference on Environmental Systems

The International Conference on Environmental Systems, or ICES (known prior to 1990 as the Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems), is an annual technical conference focusing on human spaceflight technology and space human factors. Session topics include: Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS), thermal control, life sciences, extra-vehicular activity (EVA) systems (including space suit design and human-robot interaction), space architecture, and mission planning for exploration.[1]

The conference has taken place annually since 1971.

Contents

History

The first ICES Conference was held in San Francisco in 1971, after three years of work by members of Environmental Control and Life Support System specialist committees representing four different societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA). It replaced three other meetings held each year as part of various society conference programs and since then it has been held every year. In 1972 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) became the fifth and final co-sponsoring society for the ICES.[2]

Prior to 1990, ICES organization was US-only. In 1990 it became international, by merging the American conference with a similar conference held in Europe, and ICES started to be held abroad (for the first time in Germany in 1994). Since 2000, the ICES conference takes place four times out of five in the US and once in five years outside US (so far in 2000, 2005, 2010).

For its first 39 years, the main ICES organizer was the Society of Automotive Engineers; however, starting in 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics took over the role of main organizer,[1] supported by American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and ICES International Committee.

Papers presented at ICES are published every year in the conference proceedings, initially by ASME and now by AIAA.

Conference locations

1970s: 1st-9th ICES 1980s: 10th-19th ICES
Year Location
1971 San Francisco, California[2]
1972 San Diego, California[2]
1973 San Diego, California[3]
1974 Seattle, Washington[3]
1975 San Francisco, California[4]
1976 San Diego, California[5]
1977 San Francisco, California[6]
1978 San Francisco, California[7]
1979 San Francisco, California[8]
Year Location
1980 San Diego, California[8]
1981 San Francisco, California[8]
1982 San Diego, California[9]
1983 San Francisco, California[10]
1984 San Diego, California[8]
1985 San Francisco, California[4]
1986 San Diego, California[11]
1987 Seattle, Washington[12]
1988 San Francisco, California[13]
1989 San Diego, California[13]
1990s: 20th-29th ICES 2000s: 30th-39th ICES 2010s: 40th-49th ICES
Year Location
1990 Williamsburg, Virginia[14]
1991 San Francisco, California[14]
1992 Seattle, Washington[14]
1993 Colorado Springs, Colorado[15]
1994 Friedrichshafen, Germany[16]
1995 San Diego, California[14]
1996 Monterey, California[14]
1997 Lake Tahoe, Nevada[17]
1998 Danvers, Massachusetts[18]
1999 Denver, Colorado[19]
Year Location
2000 Toulouse, France[20]
2001 Orlando, Florida[21]
2002 San Antonio, Texas[21]
2003 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[22]
2004 Colorado Springs, Colorado[23]
2005 Rome, Italy[24]
2006 Norfolk, Virginia[25]
2007 Chicago, Illinois[26]
2008 San Francisco, California[27]
2009 Savannah, Georgia[28]
Year Location
2010 Barcelona, Spain[1]
2011 Portland, Oregon
2012 San Diego, California[29]

Organization

The ICES conference is organized by the following committees:

Initially the conference was co-organized also by the AsMA Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch Executive Committee,[2] now discontinued.

See also

References

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  14. ^ a b c d e http://oregonstate.edu/~atwaterj/als_moon.htm
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  20. ^ http://www.lrt.mw.tum.de/en/wissenschaft/veroeffentlichungen.phtml
  21. ^ a b http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/design_lib/design_lib.html
  22. ^ http://conferences.esa.int/ices2003/index.html
  23. ^ http://www.iwracs.ce.ttu.edu/WRG/Publications.htm
  24. ^ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/Publications.html
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  29. ^ http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=230&lumeetingid=2571

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