Academy of Aerospace Quality Briefing to Space Grant Directors October 27, 2008

1. Academy of Aerospace QualityBriefing to Space Grant Directors October 27, 2008 Alice E. Smith Jeffrey S. Smith Auburn University

2. Background • Many universities have and will have contracts, grants, and co-operative agreements with NASA to provide space flight experiments and payloads • These payloads are designed, constructed and tested under diverse conditions and by largely “amateur” teams • AAQ is to provide assistance in assuring that payloads are “successful” from an operations standpoint

3. AAQ is for… • Students and faculty involved with NASA payloads – on satellites, shuttle, station, balloon, rocket • Those interested in becoming involved • Future scientists and engineers interested in space

4. http://aaq.auburn.edu

5. AAQ Topic Grouping Introduction Project Start Mission Success Project End Quality Control Quality Assurance • Shelf Life Control • Supplier Auditing • Inspection and Test • FOD Control • Inferential Statistics • Regression Analysis • Statistics with Excel • Parts Selection, Purchasing and Procurement • COTS • PEMs • MEMs • Counterfeit Parts • EEE Parts Configuration Management • Acceptance Data Package • Documentation Management • Software Quality • Records Management • Process Control Production / Development / Service System Engineering System Engineering • Workmanship • Soldering • Wire, Crimp, Harness • Metrology • Staking, Bonding, • and Conformal Coating • Packaging and Delivery • Safety • Electrostatic Discharge • Flammability • Offgassing / Outgassing • Fracture Critical • FMEA/FMECA Standards QMS-ISO9000/AS9100 • Parts Assembly • Connectors • Fasteners • Mechanical Parts • Fiber Optics Continuous Improvement 5

10. AAQ and Space Grant • Space grant participants can: • Provide content for AAQ – case studies, lessons learned, best practices • Provide part of the new community of users– test users, forum attendees,“ask the expert” experts

11. AAQ – Systems Engineering Work on AubieSat • Provided a NASA life-cycle mentality for the project • Gives the project a clear definition where the program is now and is headed • Imparted integration concepts tostudents • Allows thinking of positive/negativeinteractions among subsystems • Established a Configuration Management Program • Allows students to track changes in the project and allows all to be aware of these changes

12. AAQ – Systems Engineering Work on AubieSat • Established a Quality Management Program • Gives the project a higher confidence and success rate • Established Requirements (mission,system, sub-system) • Gives design guidance tothe students • Established a Risk Management Program • Allows students to think of and mitigate potential problems and associated consequences • Provided easy to use forms/templates and other resources to aid students in AubieSat-1 development

13. Please Work with Us! • Fill out your questionnaire: • Volunteer to provide a case study or best practices module • Give us curriculum feedback • Join our second AAQ breakoutforum – March 19, near KSC, part of NASA Quality Leadership Forum • Pick up an AAQ brochure