NASA Administrator Names Ryschkewitsch as New Chief Engineer
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- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:33:42 -0700
July 17, 2007
David Mould/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington
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RELEASE: 07-156
NASA ADMINISTRATOR NAMES RYSCHKEWITSCH AS NEW CHIEF ENGINEER
WASHINGTON - NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has named Michael
Ryschkewitsch as the agency's chief engineer. He succeeds Christopher
Scolese, who Griffin selected as NASA's associate administrator on
July 11.
As chief engineer, Ryschkewitsch is responsible for the overall
review
and technical readiness of all NASA programs. The Office of the Chief
Engineer assures that the agency's development efforts and missions
operations are being planned and conducted on a sound engineering
basis with proper controls and management of technical risks.
Since October 2005, Ryschkewitsch served as the deputy center
director
for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Previously, he was director of the Applied Engineering and Technology
directorate at Goddard. He joined the center in 1982 as a cryogenics
engineer to work on the Cosmic Background Explorer mission. Between
those jobs, Ryschkewitsch held several management positions and
supported projects from the first servicing mission of the Hubble
Space Telescope in 1993 to the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere
mission launched in April 2007.
Ryschkewitsch earned his bachelor's degree in Physics from the
University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1973 and a doctorate from Duke
University, Durham, N.C., in 1978. He has received numerous group
achievement awards throughout his career. Ryschkewitsch was awarded
the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the NASA Medal for Outstanding
Leadership, the Robert Baumann Award for contributions to mission
success, and the NASA Engineering and Safety Center Leadership Award.
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