Astrobuf
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My name is Pat McGuire. I am now a retired Mechanical Engineer. My career started in 1977 when I joined NASA as a Shuttle Flight Control Engineer while an Engineering Student @ University of MN. I worked at JSC for 2 years supporting ALT flights, leaving to return to school just prior to OFT-1.
I had a passion for Rocketry & Space Exploration as an Apollo child. Was an active NAR member of the Outa Sight section in Minneapolis, MN. I built competitive scale models, rocket gliders, altitude competitors and egg lofters....
After graduating from the UofMN, I joined 3M as a Computational Design Engineer, using experience gained from my extensive NASA Coop assignment. At 3M, I worked on everything from sandpaper makers to prosthetic joints, arterial perfusion systems to environmental control systems. I even led 3M's Design teams on a series of microgravity materials processing experiments that flew on a series of Shuttle flights.
Career wise, I became head of Engineering Design, then a Product Development Lab Head, a Global Lab Head with teams around the world and finally a Global Lab Director.
My career flourished in great part from my experiences as a young teenager building Rockets in my bedroom shop.
50 years after building my last rocket, I built an Estes Bull Pup and reintroduced the hobby to my Cub Scout Pack. I'm looking forward to building a vintage Saturn V now that I have the time and patience to do so!
I had a passion for Rocketry & Space Exploration as an Apollo child. Was an active NAR member of the Outa Sight section in Minneapolis, MN. I built competitive scale models, rocket gliders, altitude competitors and egg lofters....
After graduating from the UofMN, I joined 3M as a Computational Design Engineer, using experience gained from my extensive NASA Coop assignment. At 3M, I worked on everything from sandpaper makers to prosthetic joints, arterial perfusion systems to environmental control systems. I even led 3M's Design teams on a series of microgravity materials processing experiments that flew on a series of Shuttle flights.
Career wise, I became head of Engineering Design, then a Product Development Lab Head, a Global Lab Head with teams around the world and finally a Global Lab Director.
My career flourished in great part from my experiences as a young teenager building Rockets in my bedroom shop.
50 years after building my last rocket, I built an Estes Bull Pup and reintroduced the hobby to my Cub Scout Pack. I'm looking forward to building a vintage Saturn V now that I have the time and patience to do so!
to the forum. what an impressive history you have.
