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Program Director
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2007. AIAA (Associate Fellow), ASME (Fellow), IEEE (Senior Member), AAS (Senior Member). Research Interests: Multibody Dynamics, Rotordynamics, Spaceflight Dynamics, Intelligent Control Systems, Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GN&C) of Aerospace Vehicles.
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Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989. AIAA (Associate Fellow). NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Aviation Management Office (AMO) Chief Engineer. Lead engineering effort in preparing NASA missions involving flight assets to achieve airworthiness certification. Research Interests: aircraft composite materials, loads development, linear and nonlinear analysis, and damage tolerance.
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996. Research Interests: Nanoscale Heat Generation and Transport, Electronics Cooling, Energy, Computational, Analytical, and Experimental Fluid Mechanics
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Adjunct Lecturer
Dr. Ian Johnson joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ as a lecturer in 2024. He graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 where his research focused on integrating an alternative propellant Pulsed Plasma Thruster into the High-Power Helicon Thruster Experiment. Ian is currently a Principal Engineer at Maxar Space Systems in Palo Alto, where he leads the propulsion team for the Psyche mission with JPL, the OSAM-1 mission with NASA Goddard, and the Lunar Artemis Gateway Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) with NASA Glenn, in addition to supporting numerous geostationary communication spacecraft for commercial customers. He has research and industry experience with both electric and chemical propulsion subsystems.
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Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D., ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, Mechanical Engineering, licensed California Professional Engineer, IEEE Member Experience: Over 27 years in the aerospace industry performing design, analysis, integration, test, and launch of space vehicles; Technical advisor and people leader on commercial, civil, and military space programs Research Interests: Collaborative Multirobot Systems.
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Adjunct Lecturer
Ph.D. from ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ in Mechanical engineering, a senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center with 35 years of experience. Research interests: adaptive control theory, optimal control theory, distributed control theory, aircraft flight dynamics and control, aerodynamics, and aeroelasticity.





