Charles J Edmonson
Assistant Director for Technical Operations
Email: edmonson@umich.edu
Telephone: 764-5148
Fax: 763-5567
Office: 1104 SRB
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- Education:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan
- Research:
Responsible for project management, engineering, manufacturing, space instrument operations, and quality management for the Space Physics Research Laboratory, performing space research and space instrumentation development.
Skills:
- Engineering management
- Quality assurance
- Project management
- Operations management
- Project Director and Manager for NASA-MSL Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) analog and digital electronics development ($4M). Project to deliver flight electronics, flight processor, and rover simulators for the mission's quadrupole mass spectrometer.
- Project Director and Manager for NASA-Phoenix Thermal Emission Gas Analyzer (TEGA) analog electronics development. Project delivered flight analog electronics for the mission's mass spectrometer.
- Project Manager for instrument completion and delivery of NASA-MESSENGER Fast Ion Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS). Instrument currently operating at Mercury.
- Project Manager for NASA-TIMED Doppler Inerferometer (TIDI) instrument development, a $10M, design-to-cost, optical instrument to remotely measure earth's thermospheric and mesospheric wind velocities. Developed and utilized complete, earned-value project management system for project status evaluation and cost/scheduling forecasting.
- Project Manager for Langmuir Probe instrument package development for DoD-Nuclear Electric Propulsion Space Test Program (NEPSTP) mission, to measure the plasma environment surrounding the spacecraft.
Updated: 2009-03-06