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BERTA
ALFONSO
NASA Kennedy
Space Center
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Ms. 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 currently serves as KSC's
University Affairs Officer. In this capacity, she leads university
student and faculty programs, informal education, and e-education.
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 then served as KSC's University Affairs Officer leading
university student and faculty programs, informal education,
and e-education. Currently, she serves as the Lead for Education
Agency-wide Projects managed at Kennedy Space Center.
Educational
Background:
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.
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NOVEMBER 2009
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