Academy of Aerospace Quality Briefing to Space Grant Directors

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Academy of Aerospace QualityBriefing to Space
Grant Directors March 3, 2007

• Alice E. Smith
• Jeffrey S. Smith
• Auburn University

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Background

• 50 universities have contracts, grants, and
  co-operative agreements with NASA to provide
  space flight experiments and payloads
• These payloads are designed, constructed and
  tested under diverse conditions and by largely
  amateur teams
• The principal focus has been on verifying
  payloads as safe for flight
• There is additional opportunity to provide
  assistance in assuring that payloads are
  successful from an operations standpoint

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Target Audience

• Academics professors,instructors, teachers
• Students youngsters through doctoral
• Staff research assistants, post-docs
• Institutions universities, colleges, high
  schools, middle schools

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AAQ is for

• Those involved with NASA payloads on
  satellites, shuttle, station, balloon, rocket
• Those interested in becoming involved
• Future scientists and engineers interested in
  space

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http//aaq.auburn.edu
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AAQ and Space Grant

• Space grant embraces much of our AAQ intended
  audience
• Space grant participants can
• Provide content for AAQ case studies, lessons
  learned, best practices
• Provide part of the new community of users test
  users, forum attendees,ask the expert experts

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Using AAQ Advantageously

• Tutorials on technical topics
• Learning skills and methods
• Bringing on new students
• Lessons learned
• Links to standards, practices, FAQs, other
  official and in depth resources
• Posting queries, comments, responses

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Please Work with Us!

• Pick up an AAQ brochure
• Fill out your questionnaire
• Volunteer to provide a case study or best
  practices module
• Give us curriculum feedback
• Join our first AAQ breakoutforum March 29,
  near KSC, part of NASA QLF
• Encourage your spacegrantees to start using AAQ