David Maynard, MBA, PMP

Fort Wayne, Indiana Area, Indiana United States

Instructor at Indiana University & Purdue University

Mr. Maynard graduated from State University of New York with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. Immediately after graduation, he started work at NASA – Houston at a very exciting time. While there he participated widely in the design phase of the Shuttle project. One of the two areas of his engineering emphasis was a problem called ‘TAEM’ -- Terminal Area Energy Management. The essence of this problem was: “How to take a vehicle in orbit, without fuel and land it on a runway where we want it?” After TAEM was solved, Dave became deeply involved in the Shuttle flight computer configuration, timing, voting and reliability issues. After the Challenger disaster, and the loss of close ...