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BERTA
ALFONSO
NASA Kennedy
Space Center
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Berta Alfonso served as a Design
Engineer for 17 years at Kennedy Space Center. She has designed
and developed computer hardware and software for various project
at KSC supporting shuttle, payloads, and Space Station processing.
Berta's first design was a circuit card to emulate the Payload
Signal Processor (PSP) which is a shuttle flight box that
sends commands to payloads. Her card was used in the Partial
Payload Checkout Unit to test payloads on the ground before
it was launched. She has also worked developing Health and
Status software for the processing of Space Station modules.
She has also designed a flight interface card to receive X-34
flight data for on-board analysis.
After 17 years in engineering, Berta moved to education as
KSC's e-Education Project Manager. This position afforded
her to marry both of her passions, engineering and education,
in managing projects to create NASA based tools and resources
for students and teachers. Berta currently serves as KSC's
University Affairs Officer. In this capacity, she leads university
student and faculty programs, informal education, and e-education.
Berta was born in Cuba. She
graduated with a bachelors in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Miami. She also holds a Masters in Systems
Engineering and Management from the University of Central
Florida.
Philosophy: "Follow your
dreams." Learn from your past and keep reaching for your
goal. You'll make it!
Her
profile is also featured on the NASA
Quest Women Of NASA website!
OCTOBER 2006
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