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Susan has been interested in space activities since she was 10. She learned music, electronics, and eventually engineering. Currently, she works in the Radiation Effects and Analysis Group as a Flight Project Lead and a Technology Specialist in COTS Electronics for space applications. While at JPL, she got together a group of rival defense contractors, a few FFRDCs and a commercial FPGA manufacturer to form a cooperative dedicated to quickly and cost effectively characterizing parts for the space environment. This was something new for JPL, but it worked, and led to a partnering philosophy that is still being utilized today. She has been an IEEE member since 1978, a former Chair of the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology, and a member of the Nuclear Sciences Society. Susan's interests include hard extrapolative science fiction, numismatics and how the brains communicate.
Susan's e-mail address is Susan.R.Mackey.1@gsfc.nasa.gov.