NASA

Future Engineers

Guest speaker engineer Paul Krippner spoke to Scott Davis’ engineering classes on Wednesday, April 12. He shared about his work as a facilities project engineer for NASA. He worked with a team of engineers to build the Lunar Module. “When the president declared the United States was going to put a man on the moon, there was a collective gasp from the engineering community,” Krippner said. The entire project involved solving one problem after another. “The president said, ‘We are going to do this, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard.’ There was no computer, there were no books about it,” he said. He asked students, “What can you do in your lifetime?” Senior Anfernee Hanna was inspired by Krippner. “He helped us to see that we are the future of engineers,” said Hanna. “We have answers to the problems, not the computers.”