In honor of NASA's bright, talented, and inspiring engineers, NASA
Quest presents a series of QuestChats, QuestForums, and Webcasts
featuring a diverse group of men and women role models who contribute
their work in support of NASA's mission and goals.
| Featured Expert |
Date |
Event |
Background / Additional Resources |
| Dionne Jackson |
Tuesday, 2/13/01
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. PT
Noon - 1:00 p.m. ET |
Webchat |
Dionne is a chemist in the Materials Science Laboratory (MSL)
at Kennedy Space Center. She evaluates materials and processes associated
with flight hardware and ground support equipment. Dionne's profile includes a short video
explaining her work by one of our young reporters, as well an many
archived chats. View the
Archive |
| Aprille Ericsson-Jackson,
Ph.D |
Tuesday, 2/13/01
11:00 a.m. - Noon PT
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET |
Webchat |
Aprille is an aerospace engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center working in the Guidance and Navigation Control Center. She
feels obligated to help spur the interest of minorities and female
in the math, science and engineering disciplines. "Without diversity
in all fields the United States will not remain technically competitive."
Don't miss her inspirational profile View the
Archive |
| Kim Hubbard |
Tuesday, 2/20/01
11:00 a.m.- Noon PT
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET |
Webcast |
Kim is a Computer Engineer and works on the ScienceOrganizer application,
which is a tool to help scientists share data with each other. It
runs in a web browser to make it easy for any registerd user to
access this tool. She has been an Air Force officer for seven years
and worked on the development and installation of satellite command
and control systems. Kim has a Career Fact Sheet and Astroventure
Trading card linked from her profile. She says of this,
"One of the developers of the AstroVenture project asked if I was
interested in participating. Since I'm not a professional sports
person, I thought this would be the only way I'd ever be on a trading
card." |
| Michelle
Amos |
Thursday, 2/22/01
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. PT
11:00 a.m. - noon ET |
Webchat |
Michelle is an Electronics Engineer at the Kennedy Space Center
in the Center of Excellence for Launch and Payload Processing. She
uses the properties of electricity to advance Human Exploration
and the Development of Space. One of the most exciting things for
Michelle about being an Electronics Engineer is that she has the
opportunity to work on projects that require the use of these different
technologies and sciences. Because today's technology is constantly
changing, she is constantly taking training courses to keep her
skills current. Let Michelle inspire you in her profile View the
Archive |
| Karen Gundy Burlet |
Thursday, 2/22/01
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET |
Day Long Forum |
Karen is currently involved in some really fun research on damage-adaptive
flight controllers with the Intelligent Flight Control program at
NASA Ames Research Center. View the
Archived Forum. |
| Kimberly Jenkins |
Thursday, 2/22/01
8:00a.m.-3:00 p.m.PT/
11:00a.m. - 6:00 p.m.ET |
Day Long Forum |
Kimberly began as a Software Engineer, then became a Payload Integration
Engineer, an Electrical/Software Systems Lead, moved into Project
Management, and is now in Technical Management. Kimberly has a video
interview by one of our Young Women of NASA reporters that is linked
from her profile. View the
Archived Forum! |
| Stacey Morrison |
Thursday, 2/22/01
8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. PT / 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.ET |
Day Long Forum |
Stacy is the Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Space
and Life Sciences Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. She enjoys
mentoring and her advise to young women wanting to pursue a career
in math, science, or technology, is to take the hardest classes
you can in junior high and high school. Her detailed profile will
undoubtedly inspire you. She will be thrilled to answer as many
questions as she can during the day. View the
Archived Forum! |
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