1. Becoming a Certification Engineer
By: Tori Henderson
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2. About Me
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Tori Henderson
Marysville
Northwest Aerospace Technologies
Scriber Lake High
Soccer
#1 goal to graduate
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3. Why Did I Choose This?
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4. What is a Certification Engineer?
 Has responsibility for certification aspects for Federal Aviation
Administration projects.
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Ensures activities for specific airplane modification
 Define and coordinate certification requirements
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5. Main Duties
•Works closely with Engineering Department
•Customer, Program Management and Quality Assurance
•Ensures activities of cert. projects follow company quality procedures
•Assigned project and reports on performance
•Coordinates with FAA designees
•Ensures availability of resources
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6. How do I become one?
• No specific college curriculum
• No actual courses
• 4 yr. technical degree or
• 6 yrs. experience in aircraft industry
• General knowledge of FAA regulations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
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7. Experience
• Strong knowledge of FAA Certification Procedures
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OJT
FAA Seminars
Industry Seminars
• Basic understanding of engineering drawings and documentation
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College classes
• Knowledge of aircraft terminology
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FAA and Industry Seminars
Industry publications
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8. Research
• FAA Research
• Procedures
• What FAA is
 History
• DER Seminar Book
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Required Seminar
Document Changes
DMS Site
• Interview with Mentor
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College Courses
Experience
Advice
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9. Hands-On Work
•Update Master Drawing List (MDL)
• The mdl is a listing of all engineering drawings that define changes our
company does to an airplane
• Create Conformity Inspection Spreadsheet
• This spreadsheet tracks all inspection activity for the parts that will be
installed onto an airplane.
• Upload data to a customers Data Management System (DMS) site
• Currently working on a project with American Airlines
• Downloading data from DMS site
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13. Obstacles
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Research
Time Management
Organization
Communication
Very little knowledge of anything aerospace related
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14. What I took away
• Learn new things about company
• Certification Engineer
• Better sense of what could come in future
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15. Conclusion
• Next years Senior Project Students
• Project experience will help in the future
• Thank you to my mentor, Tim Hughes, and My parents for their
support
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16. Thank You For Watching!
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