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Education was a
big part of my life.

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My mother was a teacher.

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I was constantly reading books.

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She was bringing things
home for me to read

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and just involved
in that regard.

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And it was fun.

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I mean, the school
that I went to,

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we competed to get the
highest grades on tests.

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It wasn't something
that you didn't like

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or were forced to, we liked it.

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And we enjoyed it.

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And that just helped propel and
push me towards being my best

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and just constantly
pushing myself

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to be the best person
that I could be.

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I am Ryan Warner, and
I'm an Aerospace Engineer

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at NASA Armstrong
Flight Research Center.

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I currently work on
the AFCS project.

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That stands for Assurance
of Flight Critical Systems.

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This is the platform that
researchers would come and use.

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They would take their health
models, their actuator models,

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place it in our simulated
environment.

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They could tweak it and
change things as they need to.

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And then once they're
comfortable with that,

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we can stick it into real
hardware in the loop,

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something that would be used

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in a commercial airliner
for example.

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And they have really
good confidence

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that what they are developing
at school, universities,

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and so forth has real

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What's going on Mike?

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Oh, hey Ryan.

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Hey.

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Yeah.

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This is
this problem I was --

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OK.

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An average day for
me is I am here at work

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about 6:30, 6:45 in the morning.

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I'm going through
our models and see

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if the model is working
correctly.

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I'm running the model and
so forth just trying to see

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if anything has changed.

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I'm doing testing on the model
just trying to compare it

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to requirements that
we've set up.

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And then interacting
with other coworkers.

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We have someone who is more
dedicated to the hardware side

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of things, another coworker

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who is working the
software side with me.

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OK.

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So, the air data,
that's working correctly.

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But stabilator is
still a problem.

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Yeah.

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And the only thing that I
can think of that would behave

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like that in software would be.

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When I am not at work I enjoy
triathlon, which consists

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of running, biking,
and swimming.

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I enjoy just the
challenge of it.

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It was something that I
didn't think I could do.

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And then I did my first one.

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And then that was great.

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And then I wanted to do better,
so I did another one and trying

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to do better, and
then third, fourth,

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fifth, sixth, and so forth.

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So, just the preparation.

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Just the training
that goes into it.

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Just the satisfaction of
finishing, doing something

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that you didn't think
that you could before.

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As a kid I was always
drawing airplanes and robots

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and submarines and this
and the other things.

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So, that kind of helped focus
me on picking up airplanes