People
Faculty
Mike Gruntman
Professor and Chair
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); Member (Academician), International Academy of Astronautics (IAA); spacecraft and space mission design, rocket propulsion, space physics, space sensors and instrumentation, space plasmas, history of rocketry and space
David Barnhart
Research Professor, Director of SERC
Spacecraft design, bus architecture, mission concepts and testing
Barry Boehm
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and TRW Professor in Software Engineering
Interaction
Dan Erwin
Professor
Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); Spacecraft propulsion, optics and optical instruments, kinetics of gases and plasmas
Sergei Gimelshein
Research Associate Professor
Computational fluid dynamics and hypersonic aerodynamics, spacecraft propulsion, laminar separated flows, plume flows, plume interactions and surface contamination, physics of molecular energy transfer, chemical reactions in gas phase and on the surface, and upper atmosphere radiation processes
Gerald Hintz
Adjunct Professor
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Orbital Mechanics
Michael Kezirian
Adjunct Associate Professor
Boeing: The Space Shuttle Program; Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); System Safety, Propulsion, Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel Design and Analysis, Spacecraft Dynamics and Fuel Slosh
Berok Khoshnevis
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Automated Construction; Computer-automated fabrication processes; Robotics and autonomous systems; Computer simulation
Joseph Kunc
Professor
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS); Atomic and molecular interactions, transport of particles and radiation in non-equilibrium gases and plasmas, molecular dynamics, classical and statistical thermodynamics
Azad Madni
Professor, Director of SAE
Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Complex system analysis and design; complexity management; socio-technical systems; modeling and simulation; model based engineering; engineered resilient systems; integration of humans with adaptable systems; STEM education simulations/games
E. Phillip Muntz
Professor Emeritus
In Memoriam
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE); Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); Hypersonics, gas kinetics and plasmas, high performance materials, micromechanical devices, space science.
Ryan Park
Adjunct Associate Professor
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Orbital Mechanics
Anita Sengupta
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
F. Stan Settles
Professor Emeritus
Member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE); Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE); engineering management, integrated management and design, quality management, manufacturing for biomedical/biotechnical applications
Kent Tobiska
Adjunct Professor
Space Environment Technician
Joseph Wang
Associate Professor
Electric propulsion, space environment and spacecraft interactions, particle simulation algorithms for gases and plasmas, microfluidics
James Wertz
Adjunct Professor
President of Microcosm: Space mission design
Lecturers
Mohamed Abid
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Spacecraft Sensors
Oscar Alvarez-Salazar
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Spacecraft Structural Dynamics
Rodney Anderson
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bryan Cooley
Aerospace Corporation: Spacecraft Dynamics
Bruce Cordell
21st Century Waves: Humans Spaceflight
Don Edberg
Cal Poly Pomona: Space Launch Vehicles
Anthony Freeman
NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Remote Sensing from Space
Paul Giuliano
NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Website
Keith D. Goodfellow
Aerojet – Rocketdyne: Spacecraft Propulsion
Troy D. Goodson
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Spacecraft Dynamics
Lisa Hill
Space Systems Integration: Spacecraft Design
Steve Matousek
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Remote Sensing
Leila Meshkat
NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Space System Reliability
Robert Parker
NGC (retired): Space Power Systems
G. P. Purohit
Aerospace Corporation: Spacecraft Thermal Control and Propulsion
Madhu Thangavelu
AAA Visioneering: Space Systems Architecting
Brett Williams
Raytheon: Spacecraft Strength of Materials
Sidney Yuan
Aerospace Corporation: Space Cryogenic Systems
Staff
John Amrine
Senior Comp. Scientist
