Hello, I am Jaiwon Shin.
I work as Associate
Administrator
for Aeronautics at NASA
headquarters in Washington
DC.
So basically I am
responsible
for all aeronautics
portfolios
and research and development
work at the agency.
We are here in South Africa
for two primary reasons.
One, we were participating
at
the annual summit of
International Forum for
Aviation Research, in short
IFAR,
and also, South Africans
hosted
the annual conference of
aeronautical
society for South Africa.
NASA Aeronautics that I am
responsible for, certainly
develops
technologies, concepts and
tools
to advance state of the art
in
aeronautics and aviation.
Aviation is important for
South Africa.
In CSIR, that our
counterpart
as a government funded
research
organization, we were
interested
in learning what they are
interested in and how they
conduct their aeronautics
research.
We are always looking for
capable international
partners
because aviation again is
very global.
South Africa is the leading
country
on the whole Continent in
terms of aviation.
We need to remember,
technology
is driving those changes,
so I would encourage young
professionals and especially
students in South Africa to
pay attention to what's
happening around the world
and in the STEM education,
and I hope you all take a
great
interest in moving into
science
and technologies and excel,
so that you become
contributing
members of South Africa.
