The Management Team for the Constellation University Institutes Project (CUIP) is Claudia Meyer and Jeff Rybak. Contact them if you have any questions about the Institutes, Renewal Review strategy, Refocus effort, or if you would like to make a suggestion about the Project or this web site.

Claudia Meyer - Manager, CUIP

M.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B.S. Aerospace Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Claudia Meyer, Manager of the CUIP, was formerly the Space Propulsion Health Management Lead at the NASA Glenn Research Center. She has served as technical lead on numerous health management project teams involving multiple NASA Centers, DoD, academia, and industry, including the recent Propulsion IVHM Technology Experiment (PITEX funded under the Space Launch Initiative and the Next Generation Launch Technology programs). Her primary research focus was on advanced diagnostic techniques for space propulsion applications, and she has experience with numerous operational engines/propulsion systems, such as Space Shuttle Main Engine, X-33 Aerospike engine, X-34 feed system and MC-1 engine, Space Launch Initiative Fuel Rich Staged Combustion (RS-83), Space Launch Initiative Oxidizer Rich Staged Combustion (RS-84), and numerous Atlas/Centaur subsystems.

Claudia has years of strategic planning and road mapping experience on activities such as the Atlas Reliability Enhancement Program, the Strategic Avionics Working Group, the Inter-Agency IVHM Team, the AIAA Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee, and she served on the advisory board for the Space Engineering Research Center devoted to Health Management at the University of Cincinnati.

Jeff Rybak - Deputy Manager, CUIP

Ph.D. Technology Management, Indiana State University

M.A. Technical Communication, Bowling Green State University

B.A. Sociology and English, University of Indianapolis

Jeff Rybak, Research Associate Professor of Technology Management at Bowling Green State University and Deputy Manager of the CUIP, was the Program Integration Office liaison to NASA Glenn Research Center for the Advanced Space Transportation Program and the Next Generation Launch Technology Program, respectively, from 2001 to 2004. He has worked for 15 years within the United States and international government organizations, industry, and academia in systems integration, training, testing, and technical documentation for various technologies, including IT systems, digital cartographic and geospatial software solutions, and DNA fingerprinting. Jeff's career began as a Federal Bureau of Investigation honors intern assigned to the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA.

Jeff's research agendas include technology management process validation; organizational development strategies, methods, and implementation; domestic and international models for university collaboration within government agencies; and assessment systems for performance improvement, combining cognitive task analysis and focus group interviewing techniques.