NASA, like many other organizations, is facing major challenges when it comes to its workforce. The average age of its personnel is 46, and 68 percent of its population is between 35 and 55. According to the U.S. Government Accounting Office, if the workforce continues aging, not enough engineers will have moved up the ranks and have the requisite skills to enable NASA to meet its vision for space exploration. In order to meet its goals of developing a new generation of spacecraft to support human spaceflight to the moon and Mars, the agency must engage and retain younger generations of workers and bridge the gaps between the four generations working today. Knowledge sharing among the generations is more critical than ever. This paper describes the strategies used to develop the NASA Engineering Network with the goal of engaging different generations.


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    Title :

    Multi-Generational Knowledge Sharing for NASA Engineers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Astronautical Congress 2009 ; 2009 ; Daejeon, Korea, Republic of


    Publication date :

    2009-10-12


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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