AIAA LA-LV May 2 Online e-Town Hall Meeting with guest speakers Michael Staab and Shawn Boike

Michael Staab is a Flight System Systems Engineer for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the avionics systems-domain lead for the mission, responsible for nominal & off-nominal behaviors and functional design, avionics system verification & validation activities, and the flight system commissioning phase activity. In his previous assignments, he was a Spacecraft Systems Engineer and Flight Director for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, a flight controller, or ACE, for the Cassini spacecraft, and a Mission Systems’ Systems Engineer for the Mars 2020 rover. Outside JPL, Michael is a PhD student in the Department of Astronautical Engineering and the University of Southern California and an Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer in the United States Navy Reserves, supporting the NAVAIR and Navy Space Cadre communities. Michael holds a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University and a Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Shawn Boike has created, lead, directed, managed, consulted on teams & professionally worked in, fortune 100; NASA, NSF, DOD, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, PPG, Parker, GM, FORD and McDonnell Douglas.  Over 35 industrious years’ experience in Aerospace & Product Development of; 18 Aircraft, 5 Spacecraft; 5 EV’s, Tanks & many Automobiles.  Founder of: Insta-Grid, American Industrial Consultants, Solution Vehicles Co. Solutioncell, Author and gained a BSME from MSU and a MBA from SDSU.  www.linkedin/in/shawnpaulboike,  Website: http://www.insta-grid.com