Technical Excellence: A Requirement for Good Engineering

Paul Gill, Manager, NASA Technical Standards Program Office, and William Vaughan, Research Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville

1/22/2008
(Original Publish Date: 1/8/2008)

Technical excellence is a requirement for good engineering. Technical excellence has many different ways of expressing itself within engineering. NASA has initiatives that address the enhancement of the Agency's technical excellence and thrust to maintain the associated high level of performance by the Agency on current programs/projects and as it moves into the Constellation Program and the return to the Moon with plans to visit Mars. This paper addresses some of the key initiatives associated with NASA's technical excellence thrust. Examples are provided to illustrate some results being achieved and plans to enhance these initiatives.