{"417521":{"#nid":"417521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Aerospace Undergraduates Take on Washington","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Robert Braun took a group of 20 undergraduate honors students to Washington, D.C. last week to meet with some of our nation\u2019s leading policymakers. This Spring semester undergraduate honors course (AE 2803, Aerospace Science and Technology Policy:\u0026nbsp;The Role of NASA in the 21st Century) addresses the importance of technology innovation and the integration of technical, budgetary and policy issues in the framing of the U.S. civilian aerospace economy. Course material covers the challenges and fundamental physics of aerospace engineering, the historical development of aerospace capabilities, and budgetary and policy aspects of this sector. The course has utilized the rollout and subsequent debate of the Obama administration 2011 NASA space policy as a case study. On March 29-30, this group of students met with senior policymakers in the Administration and in Congress and discussed aspects of aerospace science and technology policy that we have been studying in class. We met with:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECongressman Chaka Fattah\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDoug Babcock, Legislative staff in Senator Brown\u0027s office\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECharlie Harman, Chief of Staff in Senator Chambliss\u0027 office\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEd Feddeman, Professional Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlex Saltman, Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeth Robinson, NASA Chief Financial Officer\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Robert Braun took a group of 20 undergraduate honors students to Washington, D.C."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-06-23 15:34:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:45","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}