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My name is Bill Allen and I'm a mechanical
design engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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I will lead a design team through the primary
life cycle of a project.

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You know we design from the top down, so that
being we start with nothing.

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We have a lot of unknowns or first guesses
and as we go forward we add more detail and

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refine our design and update our guesses and
so forth.

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By the time you launch you have a finished
product.

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I am working on our next Mars rover, and I'm
also working on a test program, and we want

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to test new aides to help us land larger masses
at Mars.

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Being here 30 years, you know been here long
enough to see change take place.

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I think JPL is understanding enough to realize
that the diversity of people in everything,

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the way they think, the way they act, their
background, their education creates an environment

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that's not only healthy but very productive
for solving problems.