Michelle E. Amos is an Electronics Design Engineer in the Command and Control System Design and Development Branch of Kennedy Space Center's Spaceport Engineering and Technology. She launched a career with NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in 1990 as an AST, Electronics Design Engineer in the Engineering Development Directorate which has become Spaceport Engineering and Technology.
She has a decade of design experience in digital data, voice and video communication systems for ground support equipment. She also contributed to system and subsystem level design for the Digital-Operational and Intercom System (OIS-D), KSC's main communication system for launch and payload processing. In addition, she was Hardware Design Engineer for the Control System of Operational Television-Modernization Project, which implements the upgrade of KSC's cameras, recorders and displays from analog to digital technology.
Michelle was Hardware Lead Engineer for NASA's IVHM Technology Experiments for X-34 (NITEX-34). In this capacity, she was responsible for designing the hardware which will receive, process and archive telemetry data from flight experiments aboard technology testbed demonstrators or space vehicles.
Currently, Michelle is sustaining electrical engineering designs for the International Space Station (ISS) Ground Support Equipment, as well as providing electrcial and instrumentation design engineering for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). ATDC is a KSC project which provides a proving ground for advanced range and spaceport technologies in a relevant environment.
Michelle received national recognition as a "Technology All Star" for engineering contributions to NASA at the 2002 Women of Color Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference.
Michelle was born in Baton Rouge, La., and graduated from Southern University A&M College in 1989 with a BS in Electrical Engineering. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management from the University of Central Florida.
Besides being a wife, mother, and engineer, Michelle is the chairperson of KSC's Black Employee Strategy Team, is a competent leader and communicator in Toastmasters International, serves as Stake President of the Children's Programs for seven churches, is an active Boy Scout Committee member, participates in the KSC Outreach program as a volunteer for career days and science fairs, volunteers in the Agency's Women of NASA Program by encouraging girls and women to study science through live web chats and forums, and shares the excitement of the space program with the public and KSC employees as a mission briefer.
Michelle and her husband, John, have been married for more than ten years. They have three children and reside in Oviedo, Fla.
July 2002
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