Career Opportunities in the Aerospace Industry
Friday, September 6, 2019
About the Presentation
Imagine waking up in the morning and going to work on a project called Dream Chaser – a multi-mission space utility vehicle designed for transporting crew and cargo to low-Earth orbit (LEO) destinations such as the International Space Station. That’s just one of many exciting opportunities available to people who work in the growing aerospace industry.
Haley and TJ Anderson invite you for a presentation on the varied roles in the space industry and a Q&A to answer all of your questions about breaking into and working in this industry. Please join these Boise State Alumni as they share their 10+ years of experience over 4 NASA sites with you!
About the Presenters
TJ Anderson is a Materials and Processes Engineer for Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems division in Madison, Wisconsin. He is currently the Propellant Compatibility Lead for SNCs Dreamchaser vehicle. TJ has both a BS in Materials Science Engineering (minor in Spanish) and a Masters in Business Administration and is co-author on a research publication.
Over his 10+ year career in the space industry, he was the NASA representative for large pressure vessel grain boundry evaluation, co-authored a research paper, and has become an SME in materials selection for space flight applications. Outside of the space industry, TJ has worked in both the medical industry and large equipment manufacturing. He also acted as the social media instructor for GEs marketing team and represented GE to select new start-ups to fund with 500 start-ups ‘geeks on a plane’ tour. In his free time, he runs a west marches style D&D campaign with over 25 players (all co-workers) and enjoys going on random adventures with his wife and children.
Haley Anderson is a Project Engineer for Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems division in Madison, Wisconsin. She is currently the Manufacturing Integration Lead for the Dreamchaser vehicle. Haley is a tenacious advocate for solving the unsolvable; she has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to break down the needs across programs and to strategize a resolution that pulls together individuals in traditionally “stove-piped” positions to work in concert towards a common objective.
In her nearly ten year career in aerospace, she has helped design and pattern the space suit—leading the anthropometric research between the suit and capsule systems, managed high level projects under the new shuttle (SLS) program, acted as the subcontract representative with NASA communications in projects totaling over $70M, and wrote programming to update the fluid dynamic outputs of one of NASA’s largest hypersonic wind tunnels. Haley is mother to two young children and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boise State University with a major in Mechanical Engineering and minor in Theatre.