<VV> RE: Interesting Article ...NOW Engineer (no Corvair)

[Kirby Smith]

Once NASA management was taken over by the politically correct, who 
declared that the problem with NASA was that it was too male, too pale, 
and too stale and acted accordingly, NASA ceased to be about 
engineering.  We did get to see the fresh employees assume the whole 
world uses the MKS system and thereby waste a Mars probe by not asking 
what units the specific impulse numbers were in, but it wasn't very 
entertaining.

And then there are the Space Shuttles as re-engineered by the EPA.  They 
have successfully changed the mundane to the dramatic.

kirby


Jim Houston wrote:
> My son graduated from Embry Riddle last year with a BS in Aerospace 
> Engineering (he is now working on a Masters)...  but it looks like the 
> best job opportunities for him are going to be in the computer field (he 
> also does programming and web development)..  Engineering??  Don't know 
> yet...
> 
> Jim Houston
> Brandon, FL
> 
> mhicks130 at cox.net wrote:
> 
>> We here at NASA Langley are facing massive RIF's (reduction in force) 
>> in the near future.  I've been in constant fear of losing my job 
>> almost this entire year and next should be worse.  Did the gentleman 
>> from NASA mention THAT to the children?  If you want to inspire kids 
>> to be engineers don't show them models of the shuttle (which in spite 
>> of how much I admire it is NOT the best idea to ever come out of NASA) 
>> but instead show them they'll have some kind of job security.  Who 
>> wants a job where you're constantly afraid you're going to lose it?  
>> Become a lawyer, they're always busy.
>>
>> mike
>>
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>> Took my kids to the Marshfield Days (Marshfield Missouri) last 
>> weekend, NASA
>> was there with a scaled model of the shuttle and lots of other 
>> interesting
>> things.  While I was talking to the gentleman from NASA he mentioned that
>> the main reason that they do this is to inspire kids to take math and
>> science.  They are having a hard time getting Engineers and Scientist 
>> these
>> days.  They picked going to Marshfield because it is the birth place of
>> Edwin P. Hubble.
>>
>> Keith Hammett
>> M.E. University of Missouri - Rolla 2000
>>
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