Aerospace Career Day Brought to You by Women in Aerospace (WIA) and Portland State Aerospace Society at Portland State University December 11, 2020
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Aerospace Career Day Brought to you by Women In Aerospace (WIA) and Portland State Aerospace Society at Portland State University December 11, 2020 TRACK SCHEDULE Dr. Rob Manning Engineering, Strategy, Humans Dr. Shawna Pandya Dr. Jim Rice Panel 1 3:30-4:30pm PDT to Mars Dr. Erika Wagner Break 4:30-4:45pm PDT Dr. Angie Bukley Space Law, Business, Andrea Harrington International Relations, and Dr. Sara Langston, Esq., J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. Panel 2 4:45-5:5:45pm PDT Policy Panel William Pomerantz Break 5:45 to 6pm PDT Dr. Penny Boston Dr. Gary Fogel Peter McCloud Dr. Margaret Race Dr. Robina Shaheen Panel 3 6 to 7pm PDY Science and Data Dr. Carol Stoker Break 7 to 7:15pm PDT Dr. Sherry Cady Michael Cianconne Kerrie Daughtery Communications, Education, Janet Ivey Angela Peura Panel 4 7:15 to 8:15 PDT Culture, and History Artemis Westenberg This group of world renowned aerospace professionals has cumulatively been exploring, innovating, leading, and teaching since the early 1970s. Between them are represented Mars missions from Pathfinder to Curiosity, and studies from the Antarctic (surface and scuba) to Hawaii and reaching as far away as Australia, in disciplines, from engineering and astrobiology to policy, mission management, communications, TV actors, historians, and astronaut candidates for upcoming missions. These individuals come from all backgrounds and upbringings, and can share how they rose against the odds to succeed in the demanding and exciting field of space exploration. They are artists, bicyclists, musicians, martial arts competitors, scuba divers, pilots, chili pepper connoisseurs, and more. They are humble, gregarious, quiet, daredevils, shy, and everything in between. These individuals were just like you before they began their journey to Aerospace Careers. Panel 1 Engineering, Strategy, Humans to Mars - 3:30pm PDT Dr. Rob Manning is Chief Engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as Chief Engineer for JPL’s Engineering and Science Directorate. An Engineering Fellow, he has been designing, testing and operating robotic spacecraft for nearly 40 years including Galileo to Jupiter, Cassini to Saturn and Magellan to Venus and many Mars missions. In the 90's, Rob became the Mars Pathfinder Chief Engineer where he led the Entry Descent and Landing (EDL) team, and co-conspired the idea to modify the Pathfinder and Sojourner Rover designs to become the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity. While on MER he co-conceived the idea of skycrane landing that was later used by Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). After MER he became the Mars Program Chief Engineer where he helped plan and integrate the various Mars missions like Phoenix Lander, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MSL and beyond. In 2007, Rob became the Chief Engineer for the MSL Project that successfully landed Curiosity Rover on Mars. Rob wrote about his experiences in a book called “Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity’s Chief Engineer”. Most recently Rob helped create a team to design and build an emergency use ventilator specifically for the COVID-19 pandemic. Rob has received four NASA medals, is in the Aviation Week Magazine Space Laureate Hall of Fame in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, has received two honorary PhDs, has a minor planet named after him and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 2004, SpaceNews magazine named Rob as one of 100 people who made a difference in civil, commercial and military space since 1989. Rob is a graduate of Caltech and Whitman College where he studied math, physics, computer science, and control systems. He makes his home in Pasadena, CA with his wife Dominique and their daughter, Caline. Dr. Shawna Pandya is a physician, speaker, martial artist, citizen-scientist astronaut candidate with Projects PoSSUM & PHEnOM, and prime crew aquanaut with Project Poseidon. Through her involvement with Project PoSSUM, Dr. Pandya was part of the first crew to test a commercial spacesuit in microgravity. She has also completed centrifuge studies, emergency spacecraft egress and sea survival training, and wilderness medicine training. She currently serves at the Life Sciences Team Lead for Association of Spaceflight Professionals and the Life Sciences Chair for the Canadian Space Society. Dr. Pandya holds degrees in Honors Neuroscience (BSc. Hons, University of Alberta), Space Studies (MSc., International Space University) and medicine (MD, University of Alberta) and is a licensed general practitioner. Prior to medical school, she attended Singularity University, where she co-founded CiviGuard, based on Singularity’s challenge to positively impact 1 billion people in 10 years using accelerating technologies. She is an accomplished speaker, having given talks at TEDxUAlberta, TEDxEdmonton and the University of Alberta’s Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the invitation of former Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell. Dr. Pandya holds certifications in solo sky-diving, advance, open water, Nitrox and rescue diving, and is working towards her private pilot’s license. Dr. Pandya is fluent in English, French, Gujarati, and speaks introductory Spanish and Russian. She also sings, plays the piano and holds a black belt in Taekwondo and has trained annually at Muay Thai fight camps in Thailand since 2015, entering and winning her first amateur fight in 2017. Dr. Jim Rice was a Co-Investigator and Geology Team Leader on the Mars Exploration Rover Project (Spirit and Opportunity) and also has mission experience working on the Mars Odyssey Orbiter and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Projects. Dr. Rice was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a fairly small town located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and is the oldest of five children, all five of whom obtained their degrees from the University of Alabama. He earned his BS degree in Geology and his MS at Northeast Louisiana University studying detailed geologic mapping of a region that contained evidence of enormous floods and possibly lakes on Mars. He was then accepted for an Astrogeology Internship position at the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he continued his studies in Geological Sciences, earning his PhD from Arizona State University. Dr. Rice has organized and led several NASA sponsored field conferences to Mars analog sites around the world, and been a team member on numerous international geological field expeditions around the world including a 6 month long joint NASA/Russian expedition to Antarctica. This included being a member of the SCUBA diving team to first investigate the perennially frozen lakes of eastern Antarctica. Dr. Rice has extensive geological field experience (over 20 years experience in Antarctica, High Arctic, Iceland, Hawaii) studying a wide variety of Mars analog environments and geologic processes including volcanism and impact cratering, glacial, fluvial, periglacial, aeolian, and lacustrine geomorphology and surface physical processes. He is a Research Associate at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona where he served as Science Imaging Team Member of the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) and Robotic Arm Camera (RAC) systems onboard the Mars Polar Lander, following which he was responsible for the selection, prioritization, planning and targeting of observations for the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) and Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) experiments. Dr. Rice serves as a Mars Rover Co-Investigator, serving on the Geology and Strategic Long Term Planning Groups, and was the Associate Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. He has also served on numerous NASA Science Analysis Groups for manned missions back to the Moon and Mars, and was a NASA Astronaut Candidate Finalist in 2000 and 2009. Dr. Rice joined the permanent science staff of PSI In 2013. Dr. Erika Wagner serves as Payload Sales Director for Blue Origin, supporting the development of technologies to enable human access to space at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability. Prior to joining Blue Origin, Dr. Wagner worked with the X PRIZE Foundation as Senior Director of Exploration Prize Development and founding Executive Director of the X PRIZE Lab@MIT. Previously, she served at MIT as Science Director and Executive Director of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, a multi-university spacecraft development initiative to investigate the physiological effects of reduced gravity. Her interdisciplinary academic background includes a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, a master’s in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT, and a PhD in Bioastronautics from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She is also an alumna of the International Space University, a Trustee of Seattle's Museum of Flight, and a member of the National Academies' Space Studies Board. She was a semifinalist for the 2009 NASA astronaut selection process, and enjoys turning cardboard boxes into airplanes, rockets, and other vessels of exploration for her two kids. Today, she serves on the Boards of the Washington Aerospace Scholars and American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, as well as the National Academies Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space. Panel 2 Space Law, Business, International Relations, and Policy Panel - 4:45pm PDT Dr. Angie Bukley is the Assistant Principal Director of the Exploration Science & Technology organization