Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers CELEBRATES 50th Anniversary of Historic Apollo Lunar Landing: IEEE Galveston Bay Section Hosts NASA/JSC with Two Region 5 Stepping Stone Awards at NASA/JSC Gilruth Center July 27th, 2019, 1:00-2:30 PM REGION 5 STEPPING STONE AWARDS in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING SATURDAY, JULY 27th, 2019 GILRUTH CENTER, NASA/JOHNSON SPACE CENTER REGION 5 STEPPING STONE AWARD PROGRAM OF EVENTS SATURDAY, JULY 27th, 2019 GILRUTH CENTER, DESTINY BALLROOM NASA/JOHNSON SPACE CENTER 1:00-2:30 PM • Welcome Zafar Taqvi Retired NASA Contractor (1969-2010) IEEE Region 5 History Chair • Region 5 Stepping Stone Award Robert Shapiro IEEE Region 5 Director • IEEE- Advancing Technology for Humanity James Jefferies 2018 IEEE CEO and President • Analytic Ephemeris Generator (AEG) Presentations o A Peak at the AEG early developments Ken Young Retired NASA (1962-2011) o How AEG has been utilized to support space program Merritt Jones Retired NASA Contractor (1963-1995) • Electronic Systems Test Lab (ESTL) Presentations o ESTL Early Developments: A response to the need for a robust verification of communication and tracking advanced space system requirements. Sharon S. Marston Electronic Systems Test Laboratory Manager, NASA/JSC o Role ESTL played in the decades long successes of our space program Bruce A. Manners Chief, Avionics Systems Division, NASA/JSC • Presentation of Plaques by James Jefferies/IEEE to JSC Director and AEG and ESTL Groups JSC Director’s Remarks Mark S. Geyer NASA/JSC Director • Concluding Remarks and Thanks to Guests EVENT PRESENTERS NASA/ JSC Director Mark S. Geyer JSC Director Mark S. Geyer Mark S. Geyer is the 12th director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, a position he assumed on May 25, 2018. In this role, Geyer leads a workforce of approximately 10,000 civil servant and contractor employees at one of NASA’s largest installations in Houston and the White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Geyer began his NASA career in 1990 at NASA Johnson in the new business directorate. He joined the International Space Station Program in 1994, where he served a variety of roles until 2005, including chair of the space station Mission Management Team, manager of the ISS Program Integration Office and NASA lead negotiator with Russia on space station requirements, plans and strategies. From 2005 to 2007, Geyer served as deputy program manager of the Constellation Program, before transitioning to manager of the Orion Program, a position he held until 2015. Under Geyer’s direction, Orion was successfully tested in space in 2014 for the first time, bringing NASA another step closer to sending astronauts to deep space destinations. After supporting Orion, Geyer served as deputy center director at NASA Johnson until September 2017. In this role, he helped the center director manage a broad range of human spaceflight activities, including the center’s annual budget of approximately $5.1 billion. From October 2017 to May 2018, Geyer served as the acting deputy associate administrator for technical for the Human Explorations and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. In this position, he was responsible for assisting the associate administrator in providing strategic direction for all aspects of NASA’s human spaceflight exploration mission. Born in Indianapolis, Geyer earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in Indiana. Geyer is the recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Meritorious Executive Rank Award and the Distinguished Executive Rank Award. He is married to Jacqueline Geyer, and they have three children. 2019 IEEE Past President, James A. Jefferies Jim Jefferies retired from AT&T and Lucent Technologies following 33 years in engineering and executive positions including fiber optic cable development and manufacturing, quality assurance, and supply chain management. He managed the engineering teams that delivered the first commercial fiber optic cables for AT&T. He has also worked in the entrepreneurial sector as Chief Operating Officer for USBuild.com in San Francisco, CA, USA. Jim served two separate terms on the IEEE Board of Directors and was 2015 IEEE-USA President. 2018 IEEE-USA President, Sandra ("Candy") Robinson Candy Robinson is currently a Software Engineering Manager for Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, assigned to the F-35 program. She worked as a hardware design and software engineer for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, and for the Boeing Company. She earned her BSEE degree from UT Austin, MSCS from UC Davis, and an MBA in Engineering and Technology Management from the University of Dallas. She is Immediate Past 2018 IEEE-USA President. IEEE Region 5 Director, Robert Shapiro Robert Shapiro is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Building Technology in Dallas Texas, providing solutions for in-building communications for First Responders. His career has spanned 35 years in critical infrastructure, public safety and mobile communications. He earned his BSEE from Texas Tech University and an MBA from the University of Dallas. He is currently the IEEE Region 5 Director, a member of the IEEE Audit Committee and the IEEE Technical Activities Assistant Treasurer. AEG Early Development Presenter, Retired NASA, Ken Young Ken Young (BS-Aerospace Engr., UT-Austin, 1962) started as a NASA employee in June 1962 at the Manned Spacecraft Center temporary quarters in Houston. Ken worked as a rendezvous analyst and mission planner on Project Gemini from 1963 to 1967, then on Apollo from 1967 to 1972. In those jobs he made extensive use of inhouse rendezvous analysis and planning software tools (powered by the AEG). Ken went on to work every US human spaceflight program from Skylab to the International Space Station. He retired as an aerospace consultant in 2011. AEG Utilization Presenter, Retired NASA Contractor, Merritt Jones Merritt Jones ( BS-Mathematics, Millsaps College, 1962) started as an IBM employee on the Real Time Control Center contract for NASA in June 1963 in an IBM facility near NASA’s temporary quarters in Houston. He was an astrodynamicist and programmer in the Math Applications department, beginning in the Gemini Program and continuing for all US human spaceflights through Space Shuttle. At the time of the Apollo 11 landing, he was the manager of the Mission Planning department, which included the real time rendezvous sequences for both Earth and Lunar orbits. This department was responsible for both the Earth and Lunar AEG’s in the Real Time Computing Center, and was the heaviest user of them. Merritt retired from the human spaceflight program in 1995 and is still active as an Information Technology consultant. Electronic System Test Laboratory History Presenter, ESTL Manager, NASA/JSC Avionics Systems Division, Sharon L. Marston Mrs. Sharon Marston received her B. S. Electrical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech in 1987 and began her career at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Norfolk, Virginia. She transferred to NASA Johnson Space Center in July 1989 and has spent her NASA career in the Electronic Systems Test Laboratory (ESTL) starting as a Junior Test Director and Project Engineer, serving in progressively more responsible positions including Assistant Laboratory Manager. Mrs. Marston has led major upgrade and test projects in the facility including integration of the Space Network Second TDRSS Ground Terminal equipment; design, production, testing, and integration for the ESTL High Rate Optical Communications System connecting ESTL to Mission Control and other Space Shuttle and ISS test facilities; and integration of the Space Shuttle and ISS antenna systems into the newly constructed antenna area early in her career. She served as Test Director for the ISS S-Band and Ku-Band System Verification Tests and for the Second TDRSS Ground Terminal System Verification and Live Sky tests. Mrs. Marston currently serves as the Electronic Systems Test Laboratory Manager. Electronic System Test Laboratory Utilization Presenter, NASA/JSC Chief Avionics Systems Division, Bruce A. Manners Mr. Manners began his NASA career at the then NASA Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center) in 1988. He joined the Space Station Freedom Program in 1990 to work on the overall SSF power system architecture, fault protection and grounding system designs. Following the initiation of the International Space Station Program, Mr. Manners continued to provide support to the JSC ISS Program Office from the Glenn Research Center where he led the NASA engineering team for successful hardware qualification & on-orbit activation of the ISS power system. As his career at NASA developed he has served in progressively more responsible positions including Chief of the Analysis & Management Branch, Chief of the Power Systems Analysis Branch, and GRC Liaison to JSC Constellation Program. Transferring to the Johnson Space Center in 2006, he has held positions in the Engineering Directorate and the Commercial Crew & Cargo Program office where he successfully served as the Project Executive for the successful development and demonstration of the Orbital Sciences cargo resupply service to the International Space Station. Rejoining the JSC Engineering Directorate in 2013, Mr. Manners served as the Deputy Chief of the Propulsion and Power Division prior to taking his current position as the