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NIA, in partnership with NASA and CIBER, began a new knowledge/capture/re-use activity in June 2005 called the NASA Engineering Safety Center (NESC) Academy. NASA established the NESC Academy to capture the corporate knowledge currently available from their 15 Super Problem Resolution Teams (SPRT) which are focused on critical competencies required to meet the Agency mandate. Each of these SPRTs is headed by a NESC discipline expert. The NESC Academy enables these experienced senior NASA scientists and engineers to share their expertise and knowledge to guide the next generation of NASA scientists and engineers in developing their technical expertise in problem resolution. As a by-product of this training, an outreach effort to college students is being conducted in order to foster interest in NASA. Literally hundreds of years of experience have been brought together from across the Agency to form SPRT discipline areas. The first course on "Life-Support Systems" was taught by Hank Rotter at the University of Houston on September 7-9, 2005. Fifteen courses will be presented at universities across the nation over the next two years.
The Program Director at NIA is Dr. Marcia Gibson and additional information may be found on the
NESC Academy website.
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