Expert: Paul Soderman - 12/15/2009

Question
1)If you could have been anything else would you have chosen a different Carrier?

2)What is your favorite thing about your job?

3)Does your job require lots of traveling?

4)What do you feel is your greatest accomplishment?

5)What is your least favorite part of your job?

6)How many people are in your team?

7)Where did you get your education?

8)What type of person would your recommend this job to?

9)Are their any benefits to your job?

10)When did you decide you wanted to be an Aeronautical engineer?  

Answer
Miles
I am retired now save for a little consulting work.  So I will answer as if I were still at NASA.
1.  Green energy engineer
2.  The satisfaction of finding a new explanation or discovery in the field of aeronautics
3.  No, about three times a year
4.  Work on the measurement of ozone depletion over Antarctica
5.  Meetings, bureaucratic obstacles
6.  3 to 10 depending on funding and project scope
7.  Oregon State University, University of Washington, Stanford University, Foothill College, Mendocino JC
8.  A person with science and math skills who is curious about exploring science
9.  Decent salary, good health insurance, sick pay, paid annual leave, good retirement
10.  In 1963, just before my junior year of college
Paul