Making the CHARA Array, Part II: project management: 15 years on thin ice

Stephen T. Ridgway; Theo A. ten Brummelaar; Harold A. McAlister

doi:10.1117/12.2056748

24 July 2014 Making the CHARA Array, Part II: project management: 15 years on thin ice

Stephen T. Ridgway, Theo A. ten Brummelaar, Harold A. McAlister

Proceedings Volume 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV; 91460E (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056748
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

The reviewers of our first NSF proposal asked us to prepare a more ambitious plan, and we did. When it was funded, the scope of the resources made available was far below the scope of the project. What to do? The only way to proceed within budget was to eliminate the entire professional engineering component of the proposal team, and we did so. This left the CHARA staff and a few consultants. The story of building the CHARA Array is largely the story of how to build a facility and instrument with no engineers, no managers, and no meetings. How was this possible?

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Stephen T. Ridgway, Theo A. ten Brummelaar, and Harold A. McAlister "Making the CHARA Array, Part II: project management: 15 years on thin ice", Proc. SPIE 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV, 91460E (24 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056748

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