NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence

I stumbled across this report from NASA, “Elements of Engineering Excellence”, published in 2006, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC Engineering in 2006 who asked that we investigate the question: “How do you achieve excellence in aerospace engineering?” The authors’ approach to answering this question was a short course on Excellence in Engineering which is documented in this report. The report talks about five areas of an organization that le...