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Section 4: The Start of My Professional Career - White Rodgers, Martin, Westinghouse, Los Alamos
Section 6: Reliability and Safety
Section 7: The Neutral Particle Beam and HEDI Programs
Professional Resume
CLIFFORD B. BOEHMER
Education
LL.B, LaSalle Extension University, 1974
M.S. Physics, Drexel University, 1960
B.S.E.E., Washington University (St. Louis), 1952
Certificate, International School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, 1957
Certification
California Professional Engineering Registration:
Safety Engineering SF 1845
Nuclear Engineering NU 288
California State Bar No. 60607
Federal Bar
Patent Bar No. 29046
Qualified as a Safety Manager Mil-Std-882C
Forty one years of engineering and engineering management, including, control system design, test facility design and operations, system safety, environmental management and product assurance of aerospace, urban transportation and solar power plant projects.
Detailed Experience
1994 to Present - Boeing Company
Principal Engineer Scientist (Contract Hire)
Performed specific task including proposal preparation, reliability and Safety analysis, and preparation of the Environmental Assessment Data Book for the Mars 2001 Lander Mission. This latter report is the data book for a Delta II launch with a nuclear payload.
1967 to 1994 - McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company
Senior Manager- Safety and Product Assurance
Directed and performed safety, environmental management and product assurance engineering for several programs. Performed and managed reliability and safety for a urban transportation system. Most recent assignment was Senior Manager of Safety and Product Assurance for the Ground Surveillance and Tracking System Program (GSTS), previously Senior Manager of Safety and Product Assurance for the High Endoatmospheric Defense Interceptor Program (HEDI). Both of these programs were managed by the U. S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command. Responsibilities on these programs included the system safety (design safety) the operational safety and environmental management at the test sites and the Product Assurance (quality assurance, reliability, maintainability, parts control, human factors, and corrosion/contamination control). Served as the Ground Safety Officer for three HEDI launch operations at White Sands Missile Range. Previously Manager of Safety and Product Assurance for the Neutral Particle Beam Power Systems Demonstrator Program, the Neutral Particle Beam Integrated Experiment and the Titan II/IV Payload Fairing Programs. Responsible for the reliability and safety analysis for portions of the High Energy Laser Test Facility. Prepared Hazard Reports for the Space Shuttle Payload Assist Module (PAM) and the Naval Research Laboratory Shuttle Launch Dispenser. Responsible for the reliability and safety analysis of a Solar Power Plant (Solar-One) and a Nuclear Rocket Stage Program. Served as Patent Law representative for a division of the corporation.
1961 to 1964 and 1965 to 1967 - Westinghouse Astronuclear Lab.
Senior Engineer
Formulated and initiated a test program to provide data for the analysis of the safety of nuclear rockets. Supervised a group responsible for the control systems and control rooms for Test Cells A and C at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station (Jackass Flats Nevada). Directed a group responsible for the control systems of NERVA nuclear rocket engines and for the design of advanced test facility control systems. Served on the Safety Committee for Nuclear Rocket Testing.
1964 to 1965 - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Staff Member
Served as Alternate Chief Test Operator for nuclear rocket test reactors. Prepared detailed test procedures for nuclear reactor testing. Supervised design and operation of control systems and control rooms.
1956 to 1961 - Martin Co.
Senior Engineer/Lead Engineer
Performed analog computer studies on the thermodynamics and fluid flow of nuclear rocket engines. Directed the first nuclear rocket safety study under NASA/AEC contract. Performed analog computer studies on core physics and fluid flow for the Fluidized Bed Nuclear Reactor; developed equations describing reactor physics and heat transfer for nonfixed geometry nuclear reactor cores. Performed post-flight analysis and prepared range safety reports for Project Vanguard.
1953 to 1956 - White Rodgers Electric Company
Engineer
Designed, developed and flight tested an analog computer for a drone aircraft control system.
1952 to 1953 - U. S. Army - Lieutenant
Served as instructor in the radar section of the artillery school at Ft. Bliss Texas.
Publications
"Control systems for a Fluidized Bed Nuclear Reactor"
American Nuclear Society, 1959
"Systems Aspects of a Reusable Nuclear Shuttle"
American Nuclear Society, June 1970
"The Reusable Nuclear Shuttle - Its Operation, Test
Program and Problems Areas"
Institute Of Environmental Sciences, April 1971
"Design Criteria - Which One?
Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium,
January 1973
"Safety Aspects of Personal Rapid Transit"
Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium,
January 1974
"The 1980's - The Decade of Solar"
Reliability Conference for the Electric Power Industry,
July 1980
"Nuclear Propulsion: Past, Present and Future"
Fifth Symposium on Space Nuclear Power,
January 1988
"On to Mars (Revisited)
2nd AIAA/JPL International Conference on Solar System Exploration,Pasadena CA.
"21st Century Propulsion"
NASA Symposium, "Vision 21"
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland Ohio
April 1990
"Nuclear Reactor Operations and Dynamics"
AIAA Nuclear Short course
Monterey, CA. June 1993