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Academy of Aerospace Quality Briefing to Space Grant Directors October 27, 2008. Alice E. Smith Jeffrey S. Smith Auburn University. Background. Many universities have and will have contracts , grants, and co-operative agreements with NASA to provide space flight experiments and payloads
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Academy of Aerospace QualityBriefing to Space Grant Directors October 27, 2008 Alice E. Smith Jeffrey S. Smith Auburn University
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
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
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
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
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
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
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