| 词条 | Donna Shirley |
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| name = Donna Shirley | image = | alt = | caption = | known_for = Former manager of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA | birth_name = Donna Shirley | birth_date = 1941 | birth_place = Pauls Valley, OK | occupation = Aerospace and mechanical engineer, author }} Donna Lee Shirley (born 1941) is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is the author of the book Managing Martians: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman's Lifelong Quest to Get to Mars—and of the Team Behind the Space Robot That Has Captured the Imagination of the World. Asteroid 5624 Shirley was named in her honor. Early lifeShirley was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma and grew up in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.[1] As a young girl, Shirley was actively involved with her Girl Scouts troop and played the oboe. Shirley was the only girl at her high school not to take home economics. Instead, Shirley took mechanical drawing. Her interest in Mars and space exploration began when she read The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke. She began taking flying lessons at age 15 and soloed at the Pauls Valley airport the next year.[2] She earned a pilot's license at 16.[3] During her senior year in high school, she was class vice president, band vice president, and valedictorian.[2] After graduating from college, Shirley took up skiing and hiking in California. EducationDonna Shirley enrolled in the University of Oklahoma as an engineering student, despite the fact that her advisor told her that, "... Girls can't be engineers."[2] She also studied flying at the university, qualifying for pilot's licenses in single-engine land and sea, multi-engine land, commercial, and flight instructor.single-engine land and sea, multi-engine land, commercial, and flight instructor.[2] During Shirley's junior year at the University of Oklahoma, she became engaged and decided to change her degree to professional-writing in order to graduate faster. A short time later, Shirley and her fiancé split up. She went to work as a specification writer and an aerodynamicist for McDonnell Aircraft in Saint Louis, Missouri for about a year and eventually decided to return to OU to complete her aerospace/mechanical engineering degree.[2][4] She graduated from University of Oklahoma with a BS in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 1965, and from the University of Southern California with a MS in Aerospace Engineering.[5] CareerShe worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) from 1966 to 1998. When she joined JPL, she was the only woman among the 2,000 engineers who had an engineering degree. At NASA, she worked on a variety of projects and programs. She was a member of the team that at heat shield for a space vehicle that was destined to enter Mars' atmosphere. She served as mission analyst and later program manager for the Mariner 10 mission to Venus and Mercury. She led a research team studying a Mars rover. She was Mars Exploration Program manager,[6] and led teams for Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner rover.[7] In 1997, she was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame, and in 1998 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame.[2] Shirley officially retired as manager of the Mars Exploration Program on August 21, 1998.[8] In 2000 she won the Washington Award and in 2003 was inducted in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame. She was an associate dean of engineering for three years at the University of Oklahoma between 2000 and 2003. She then went on to be the founding director of the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle. After retiring from the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in 2004, she became President of Managing Creativity, a platform where she shares her strategies for using the collective creativity of groups to develop ideas, then efficiently and effectively turn them into products. She has become a well-known educator, speaker, and consultant who draws from her prior professional experience. On October 13, 2016, the OU School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (AME) presented Shirley with its Annie Oakley Award. The Annie Oakley Society at OU describes itself as a group of women leaders and philanthropists who, "... like Annie Oakley, play significant roles in shaping our communities and creating new horizons." Shirley was specifically commended for her work in inspiring and advocating for women to work in engineering.[9] Works
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/shi0bio-1 |title=Donna Shirley Biography |publisher=Academy of Achievement |accessdate=2014-06-02}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|last=Moore|first=Bill|title=Shirley, Donna L. |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/s/sh027.html|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|accessdate=13 February 2014}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Donna Shirley: Inventor of the Week|url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/shirley.html|publisher=MIT|accessdate=13 February 2014|year=2002}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last1=Nykolaiszyn|first1=Juliana|title=Oral history interview with Donna Shirley|journal=Inductees of the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame Oral History Project|date=March 14, 2011|url=http://dc.library.okstate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Fame/id/785|accessdate=16 April 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shirleyassociation.com/NewShirleySite/NonMembers/UnitedStates/Lineages/misc_information_for_james_shirley%20branch%2021.htm |title=Misc Information For James Shirley Branch: Donna Lee Shirley |publisher=Shirleyassociation.com |date=1997-07-04 |accessdate=2014-06-02}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/docs/MGSARRHQ.pdf |title=Mars Global Surveyor Arrival press kit |publisher=NASA |date=September 1997 |format=PDF |accessdate=2014-06-02}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/s/sh027.html |title=Shirley, Donna L. (1941- ) |publisher=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture |accessdate=2014-06-02}} 8. ^"Mars Exploration Program Manager Donna Shirley to Retire." Press Release by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. August 20,1998. Accessed February 28, 2016. 9. ^[blogs.ou.edu/.../former-ame-instructor-donna-shirley-receives-the-annie-oakley-societ... "Former AME Board Member and Educator Donna Shirley Receives the Annie Oakley Society Award." AME Blog. October 24, 2016.] Accessed October 15, 2017. External links
8 : 1941 births|Living people|People from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma|People from Wynnewood, Oklahoma|University of Oklahoma faculty|NASA people|American aerospace engineers|Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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