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Media Contacts
Danyelle Knight
dknight@fairmontschools.com
714.504.1085
Alyssa Mihm
amihm@fairmontschools.com
714.234.2780
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NASA Senior Engineer Scheduled for Engineering Magnet Speaker's SeriesOctober 2009 |
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On Tuesday, November 3rd, at 11:00am, David Doody, Senior Engineer and
Cassini Mission Controller, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA will be
speaking with Preparatory Academy Engineering Magnet students about his
extensive aeronautical and space career. His talk, "How we got to
Saturn, and what we found," includes sharing a scale model of the
Cassini/Huygens spacecraft. Doody's appearance is part of an ongoing
Speaker's Series that encourages Engineering Magnet students to
interact with and learn from the foremost experts in their field.
Fairmont Prep's Speaker's Series is designed to take the study of
engineering from the classroom to the real world, allowing students to
meet the people behind the profession of engineering. For more information about Fairmont Preparatory Academy's Engineering Magnet, please contact Admissions Director Betty Petersen at 714.999.5055 or email bpetersen@fairmontschools.com About the Speaker: After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Dave Doody worked as an instructor for Japan Air Lines teaching flight procedures, navigation, and systems to Captains and First Officers of JAL. At the same time, he led an instructional systems development effort at the JAL flight crew training center creating computer and photo labs, which produced system simulators, teaching methods and materials, and learning facilities. This was up through 1980 while living aboard a sailboat. Having landed at Catalina Island after sailing the coast, Dave worked as a systems engineer there for three years before joining the NASA-JPL Deep Space Network in Pasadena, creating instructional systems and training materials for operators of the spacecraft-communications systems. On completion of the Deep Space Network contract, Dave earned his master's degree and then went to work on the NASA Voyager mission flight operations team while Voyager 2 cruised from Saturn to encounter Uranus and Neptune. Flight ops on Magellan, the Venus mapper, then led to flight ops work on the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, where he has been since 1994. He is now a senior engineer with Caltech/JPL. All during the Voyager, Magellan, and Cassini mission operations, Dave has been involved in publishing technical and popular literature, teaching short courses, and speaking about space-flight related subjects. Occasionally, can find Dave playing sidewalk astronomer in Pasadena, offering free telescope views of the planets to passers-by. Dave is also proprietor of Space Craft International (established as a partnership in 1987), known on the web as SpacecraftKits.com, which produces low-cost educational scale models of space exploring machines. |
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