Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Exploration Ground Systems Launch Director: I would say engineering
is a whole lot of different things.
And the great thing about an engineering degree is that it can take many different forms in
your career.
Engineering is designing and developing flight hardware.
It’s designing and developing ground systems.
It’s putting flight hardware together.
It’s testing it.
It’s launching it.
So an engineering degree can take you many different places and expose you to a lot of
different things in your career.
Glen Chinn, Deputy Project Manager for Orion Production Operations: So, engineering to
me, is taking the sciences, technology, and turning that into practical, everyday use
to improve your life.
Melissa Jones, NASA Landing and Recovery Director: Engineering, to me, is identifying a problem
and working towards a solution.
Weiping Yu, Aerospace Technologist and Physicist: To me, engineering is application of scientific
knowledge to solve real-world problems.
Claudia Eyzaguirre, Technical Integrator for the Mobile Launcher: So when I think of engineering,
I go to the root of the word.
Engineering is made up of two Latin words, which means “devise” and “cleverness.”
And that’s basically what it is.
Engineering is the tools that you learn in school, like math and science, and you use
your cleverness to be able to solve problems.
Jose Perez Morales, Element Project Manager: Engineering, to me, is probably the science
– it’s basically the science of solving problems.
It’s the science of creating, the science of building, the science of taking challenges
that other people basically dream to take, and creating things for the future.
And leaving a mark, if we want to say that, for the future generations.
Yves Lamothe, Program Integration Management Team Lead: Engineering, to me, is problem-solving.
We engineer our way out of everything in life.
And I don’t want to say our way, but anytime we have an issue – for example, we need
to build homes for people to live in, we need to figure out a way to get to another planet,
if we need to build a submarine that can take us miles and miles under the ocean floor – we
engineer things to help us solve those problems.
Crystal Jolly, Systems Engineer: Engineering, to me, is not what we do, but how we see the
world.
We take something from nothing and create a whole world with it.
We have created transportation, and aircraft, and rockets.
We’ve made buildings safer, we’ve made roadways safer, we’ve made bridges safer.
We’ve created weather satellites that predict hurricanes and tornadoes.
We’ve created safety measures for other people living in the world.
Everybody has been positively affected by engineering.
I think that, for me, what engineering really is, is you take an idea and you turn it into
a reality.
That’s what engineers do every single day.
I’m Yves Lamothe.
I’m the program integration and management team lead within the systems engineering and
integration division for exploration ground systems.
I am an engineer.
I’m Melissa Jones, NASA Landing and Recovery director, and I am an engineer.
My name is Glen Chinn, I’m a supervisor, I’m a deputy project manager for Orion production
operations, and I am an engineer.
My name is Claudia Eyzaguirre, I’m a technical integrator for the mobile launcher, and I
am an engineer.
My name is Weiping Yu, people call me Dr. Yu, and I’m an aerospace technologist and
physicist.
My name is Crystal Jolly, I’m a systems engineer with the EGS program here at Kennedy
Space Center, and I am an engineer.
My name is Jose Perez Morales, my title is I’m the element project manager for the
Exploration Ground Systems here at KSC.
I am an engineer.
I’m Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the Exploration Ground Systems launch director, and I am an
engineer.
I want to change the world, and I want to make things better.
I am an engineer.