| Description | One Mechanical Engineer’s Life at NASA
Kamili Shaw, Chief of Safety and Quality Test Operations Support, NASA Stennis Space Center
Tuesday, Nov 10, 2020 @ 3:30pm
Zoom: washington.zoom.us…
Meeting ID: 949 0489 7295
Passcode: ME520
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Abstract:
Mechanical engineering is one of the most versatile engineering fields. While there are some very interesting engineering fields that have arisen over the last 20 or so years, many of them find their origins in mechanical engineering. Dr. Shaw will present her career of an example of how continual learning, willingness to grasp opportunity and flexibility can lead to interesting places and roles. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Shaw has been in materials engineering, safety, and quality at NASA. She has also dabbled in data systems and data analysis. From projects to facilities and back to projects, she has applied the critical thinking skills and knowledge base first learned in college with the soft skills developed over time to continue to adapt to new roles. In addition to her own experience, she will also give a brief overview of the various roles that other mechanical engineers fill at NASA. Through this talk, the audience will have a wider view of the various roles that mechanical engineers can fill in one organization.Bio:
Dr. Kamili Shaw is the Division Chief of the Operations Support Division in the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) located on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. She manages the group of engineers that execute the safety and quality assurance programs for all test projects. These test projects range from NASA programs like the Space Launch System and RS-25 engines to a variety of commercial engines and components. Previously, Dr. Shaw was the Lead of the Safety, Quality and Management Systems Division at SSC and before that worked in the Materials Engineering Branch and the Mission Assurance Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. She has supported space flight projects in varying roles including Materials and Processes Engineer (MPE), Product Assurance Engineer (PAE) and Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Officer (CSO). Projects she has supported includes the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Microshutters, Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 (HST SM4), Tracking and Data Relay Satellite K (TDRS-K), Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), Ionospheric Connection (ICON) and Global-scale Observation of the Limb and Disk (GOLD). Dr. Shaw is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), where she earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where she earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering. * The seminar is part of the ME Graduate Seminar Series (ME 520) |
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