In recognition of World Engineering Day (WED) and this year’s theme, engineering innovation for a more resilient world, Engineers Australia is proud to bring you a free webinar exploring the innovative NASA technologies that are helping to solve climate challenges on earth.

NASA’s Technology Transfer program ensures that innovations developed for exploration and discovery in space are broadly available to the public, maximising the benefit to humankind. NASA has profiled more than 2,000 spinoffs since 1976. These are technologies that have benefitted life on earth in the form of commercial products.

During this webinar, Daniel Lockney, Technology Transfer Program Executive at NASA, will review several spinoffs and look at current advancements that will have applications and implications for life on earth.

About the presenter

Daniel Lockney
Technology Transfer Program Executive, NASA

Daniel Lockney is responsible for agency-level management of NASA intellectual property and the transfer of NASA technology to promote the commercialisation and public availability of federally-owned inventions to benefit the national economy and the U.S. public. Lockney oversees policy, strategy, resources, and direction for the agency’s technology commercialisation efforts.

NASA has had a long history of finding new, innovative uses for its space and aeronautics technologies, and Lockney is the agency’s leading authority on these technologies and their practical and terrestrial applications.

Lockney studied American Literature at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He started his NASA career as a contractor in 2004, converting to civil service in 2010. He lives in University Park, Maryland, with his wife and two space pups, Astro and Cosmo.