ADVANCED PLANNING AND PARTNERSHIP OFFICE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Directorate Brief Description:
The Advanced Planning and Partnership Office
(APPO) hosts a wide range of activities that serve to sustain and enhance the strategic functioning of
the Center in alignment with NASA's Strategic Plan. The primary activities under the direct purview
of the APPO include advanced planning, strategic management functions, strategic business and
partnership development as well as innovation and creativity for enhanced competitiveness.
Branch Brief Description:
N/A
Project Description:
The Advanced Planning and Partnership Office offers a college level art
student the chance to exercise their creative abilities by helping design
and paint murals for the office and meeting space occupied by the Langley
Innovation Institute. The student selected for this internship should have
experience with large mural painting and should be prepared to send some
examples of their work electronically if requested.
Real life painting is desired as opposed to abstract.
Point of Contact Information:
Dr. Elizabeth Ward, Elizabeth.B.Ward@NASA.gov
Project Description:
Create Creativity Index - Research, formulate and design a "Creativity Index." This index would be
used as a measure of the center's creativity. Similar to a stock market index, it would be composed
of many creativity factors that we can measure and use an algorithm to come up with a summary value or
index. The measures needed and the algorithm would be the subject of this project. The researcher
would be expected to benchmark other organizations to justify their index. The researcher would have
to have an interest in creativity in technical organizations.
Desired Major(s):
Any, interest in creativity is the only requirement
Key Words:
creativity, innovation, metrics
Point of Contact Information:
Janice Johnson, Janice.Johnson@nasa.gov, 757-864-1009
This project can be adapted for: (check all that are relevant)
[X] Post-Doc
[X] Faculty
[X] Graduate Students
[X] Undergraduate Students
[ ] High School Students
Project Description:
The Advanced Planning and Partnership Office, home of the Center's innovation institute, would like to mentor a computer science student for the summer. The student will help migrate a second generation open source web site to the next generation structure. The intern would need experience with open source software, as in that found on wikispaces.com, wikipedia.com, etc. Along w/ this project, the student would also help
develop a pod cast capability for the organization's wiki site.
Point of Contact Information:
Dr. Elizabeth Ward, Elizabeth.B.Ward@NASA.gov
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