Knowledge Category: Articles & Publications

By Don Cohen In 1999, Eileen Collins became the first woman to command a shuttle mission. She commandedDiscovery‘s return-to-flight mission in 2005, after the Columbia accident.

By Ray W. Stratton In a national survey, nearly 2,000 project managers reported that only 47 percent of their projects met their goals and only one-third said their projects are often completed on time and on budget.

By Michael A. Spatola In the middle of winter in 2005, Art Pyster, SAIC’s director of systems engineering and integration, sponsored a companywide workshop to develop strategies for improving workforce management and collaboration.

By Robert D. Braun Now that NASA is headed back in the direction of becoming a space flight development agency, the Agency’s need for highly capable space systems engineers is greater than it has been since the end of the Apollo program.

By Julie Gravallese, Ren Resch, Jean Tatalias, and Don Cohen The MITRE Corporation’s goal is to “bring the corporation to bear” on critical national problems — to apply all its relevant knowledge and experience to each of the complex projects it takes on for the U.S. government.

By Brian Cooper Learning to drive a Mars rover is no easy task. It’s not a process you can just read up on and do right the first time. For one thing, there is the time lag to contend with.

By Dr. Richard E. Shope III The enterprise of scientific inquiry is an adventure of going where curiosity beckons. Scientists generate questions, propose explanations, carry out investigations, and communicate their findings. Communication within a scientific discipline has its own challenges, but cross-discipline communication is especially rich in difficulties and pitfalls.

  By Johnny Kwok On August 25, 2003, at 1:36 a.m., I was sitting in the Mission Director Center at Cape Canaveral.

By W. Scott Cameron In 2004, I was part of a team developing the agenda and session topics for a Procter & Gamble engineering community of practice meeting. This major, two-day, biannual event brings all project managers and related disciplines (construction, cost engineering, capital finance, capital purchasing, and scheduling and planning) in the company together […]