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Issue 24 — Summer 2006

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Goddard's SEED Program: Growing Systems Engineers

By the Seed Team with Don Cohen

The Goddard Systems Engineering Education Development program uses hands-on project experience to teach systems engineering expertise.
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Cassini-Huygens: International Cooperation for Astronomical Achievement

Collaborating with foreign space agencies has its own unique challenges.
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Unexpected Delays Equal a Chance to Innovate

By Hugh Woodward

When a priority project suddenly faces cancellation, a team avoids discouragement and uses the delay to test their ideas and improve the design.
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A Powerful Communication Tool: The Engineering White Paper

A chief engineer uses a white paper to test his logic and communicate effectively with other members of a technical review team.
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Featured Invention: Langley Soluble Imide

A happy accident creates one of the most versatile polymers available, and its uses are growing — even in the medical field.
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Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein … with a Management Experiment?

By Edward S. Calder and Bradley T. Jones

Giving Stanford University management responsibility for the complex Gravity Probe B project was an experiment that uncovered important lessons about NASA collaborations with university prime contractors.
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University Collaborations: Teaching and Learning

By Kevin Vipavetz

One NASA project manager learns some of the dos and don'ts of working with university students.
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Insight

Success Through Failure

By Henry Petroski

The noted engineering writer discusses how failure shapes good design and repeated success can ultimately lead to disaster.
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Insight

Interview with Rex Geveden

By Don Cohen

In conversation with Cohen and Ed Hoffman, NASA's Associate Administrator talks about the importance of clear technical authority in the Agency and about how project managers develop their skills.
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Story

Cassini-Huygens: International Cooperation for Astronomical Achievement

By Kerry Ellis

Collaborating with foreign space agencies has its own unique challenges.
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