2014 Summer Intern Poster Session and Abstract Proceedings NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2014 Summer Intern Poster Session and Abstract Proceedings NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, USA July 31, 2014 Director, Office of Education, Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Robert Gabrys Deputy Director, Office of Education, Goddard Space Flight Center Dean A. Kern Acting Lead, Internships, Fellowships & Scholarships, Goddard Space Flight Center Mablelene Burrell Internship Program Coordinator, Goddard Space Flight Center Raquel Marshall Editors Mentors and Education Office Staff Prepared by Deysy Armbrust, Voxcela, LLC. Republication of an article or portions thereof (e.g., extensive excerpts, figures, tables, etc.) in original form or in translation, as well as other types of reuse (e.g., in course packs) require formal permission from the Office of Education at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Preface NASA internships provide unique NASA-related research and operational experiences for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. These internships integrate participants with career professionals emphasizing mentor-directed, degree-related, real-world task completion. During the internship participants engage in scientific or engineering research, development, and operations activities. As part of their internship enrichment activities offered by Goddard’s Office of Education, the Greenbelt Campus annually hosts its Summer Poster Session. Here, interns from Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, and Engineering and Functional Services domains showcase their completed work and research to the entire internal Goddard community and visiting guests. On July 31, 2014, more than 300 interns gathered in the atrium of building 28, breaking all records in participation from previous years. Interns were able to present their work while having the opportunity to receive feedback from scientists and engineers alike. It is this interaction with Center-wide technical experts that contributes significantly to the interns’ professional development, and is therefore a culminating highlight of their quality experience at NASA. NASA’s internships reach out to students not just from the Maryland area but also worldwide. This year, 60 percent of the interns participating in the poster session were from out-of-state, while 32 percent live permanently in Maryland. While NASA internships are available to students with a wide variety of majors, predominately NASA-related STEM fields, individual internship opportunities target specific disciplines. Engineering and Science were the two domains with most participants in the poster session, with 43 percent for Engineering and 33 percent for Science. Goddard Space Flight Center’s Office of Education acknowledges the outstanding potential assembled at the poster session each year, where great ideas are presented to the NASA public. It is our goal to make all this information accessible. Hence, we are releasing a compilation of the contributions submitted and presented by the interns during the poster session and in individual presentations. A total of 233 abstracts from the summer 2014 Goddard Internship Program is now accessible, on a limited basis, for research and educational purposes. Producing the 2014 Summer Intern Poster Session Proceedings required the dedicated effort of many individuals. In particular, the quality of this publication depends on the commitment of the many mentors who took time from their busy schedules to review and edit papers. We thank you all for your support! It is very much appreciated. Last but not least, this compilation of abstracts directly reflects the work of our interns. Without your hard work and dedication, neither the Poster Session nor this publication would be possible. We thank you for preparing your presentations and papers, and for showing the professionalism and enthusiasm that makes the Summer Poster Session such a great event time after time! Table of Contents Computer Science / IT-NASA’s IV&V ............................................................................................... 1 Klocwork Checker Studio for MPCV Static Code Analysis Abstract ................................................ 2 West Virginia Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT) ........................................................................ 3 Space Telescopes: A Glimpse into the Unknown SPOT Presentation ............................................ 4 James Webb Space Telescope JWST Tool Development ................................................................ 6 SGSS Fault Management Analysis Abstract .................................................................................... 7 Robotics Image Processing and Interpretation .............................................................................. 8 James Webb Space Telescope Fault Management End-to-End Database Event Network Development ................................................................................................................... 9 Defining, Categorizing, and Aggregating Adverse Conditions ...................................................... 10 User Control Interface Improvement for RoverX ......................................................................... 11 Kennedy Space Center Automated Subsystem Software Evidence Tool (KSC-ASSET) Development Project .................................................................................................................... 12 Analysis of MPCV EFT-1 Entry, Descent and Landing Software .................................................... 13 Technical Quality and Excellence ................................................................................................. 14 Integrated Java Static Code Analysis ............................................................................................ 15 SLS Engines Program Summary .................................................................................................... 16 Comparison of IV&V and MPCV Program Software Testing Environments ................................. 17 Computer Science / IT .................................................................................................................. 19 Printed Circuit Board Quality Assurance ...................................................................................... 20 Safety Training Database .............................................................................................................. 21 Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission I&T Test String .................................................................... 22 Analysis Tools for Joint Polar Satellite System Data Product Monitoring .................................... 23 Earth and Planetary Image Processing for IMAGESEER Database ............................................... 24 Getting 30 Languages for the Price of One .................................................................................. 25 Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center Wiki ........................................................................ 26 Joint Polar Satellite Systems Simulator Interface Design ............................................................. 27 Web Development ........................................................................................................................ 28 Dellingr 6U Cubesat ...................................................................................................................... 29 Web Forms for the Sciences and Exploration Directorate ........................................................... 30 Table of Contents Creating a Multi-Display Visualization Wall Using Open Source Software .................................. 31 Evaluating the Use of Hive and Impala for Storage and Processing of Climate Data ................... 32 Science Data Analysis in a Collaborative Workbench................................................................... 33 MyGiovanni: Online analysis and Visualization with User Contributed Shapefiles...................... 34 Analyzing Plant Fluorescence with Matlab ................................................................................... 35 The Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) – Telemetry Pages Development ................................................................................................................................ 36 SEA5: Space Environment Automated Alerts & Anomaly Analysis Assistant ............................... 37 Software Optimization for Processing and Interpreting Cassini CIRS Titan Data ......................... 38 Computation Intensive and Parallel Data Applications Solved with OpenCL ............................... 39 Historic Risk Data Collection and Analysis Effort .......................................................................... 40 Data Center Efficiency Saves Money and Reduces Greenhouse Gases ....................................... 41 Enterprise Virtualization with Failover Clustering ........................................................................ 42 Designing a Prototype for the Fee-for-Service Program Tool ...................................................... 43 Next Generation Voice (NVG) Enhancement Project Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Vs. Private Branch Exchange (PBX) .................................................................................... 44 Technical Writing Internship .......................................................................................................