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ASTD FACULTY



Daniel Erwin


Professor and Chair; Spacecraft propulsion, optics and optical instruments, kinetics of gases and plasmas
 
 
Robert F.   
(Bob) Brodsky
(Retired), Spacecraft and space missions
   
Sergey Gimelshein Research Assistant 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
   
Mike Gruntman Professor; Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); Spacecraft and space mission design, propulsion, space physics, space sensors and instrumentation, space plasmas.
   
 Gerald Hintz  Adjunct Professor, (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Orbital Mechanics
   
 Darrell Judge  Professor; Fellow of American Physical Society (APS); Director, Space Sciences Center; space science, spectroscopy, deep space and sounding rocket flight experiments
   
Andrew Ketsdever  Research Associate Professor; Space environment and spacecraft propulsion
   
Joseph Kunc- Professor; Fellow of American Physical Society (APS); Nonlinear models of nonequilibrium plasmas, transport of particles and radiation in high-temperature gases, molecular dynamics, atomic and molecular interactions, statistical thermodynamic
     
Herbert Schorr Research Professor, Executive Director of USC Information Sciences Institiute (ISI), artificial intelligence, advanced computing systems, information technology  
     
F. Stan Settles Professor; 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  
     
James Wertz Adjunct Professor, (Microcosm); space mission design  
     
Peter Will Research Professor; robotics, MEMS, design and manufacturing  


LECTURERS

            David Barnhart   (Information Sciences Institute); Spacecraft Prototyping
            Alok Chatterjee   (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Spacecraft Design
            Anthony Freeman   (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Remote Sensing
            Keith D. Goodfellow   (Lockheed Martin); Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion
            Troy D. Goodson   (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Spacecraft Dynamics
            Johnny Kwok   (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Orbital Mechanics
            Robert Parker      
  (Hughes Space Communications, retired); Spacecraft Power Systems
            Geraldine Peters
  (USC, Physics); Astronomy and Astrophysics
            G. P. Purohit
  (Boeing); Spacecraft Thermal Control and Propulsion
            Sylvia Kohn-Rich   (Northrop Grumman); Spacecraft Dynamics
            Oscar Alvarez-Salazar   (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Spacecraft Structural Dynamics
            Madhu Thangavelu   (AAA Visioneering); Space Systems Architecting
            Kent Tobiska    
  (Space Environment Technologies); Space Environment

STAFF

              Dell Cuason,                          Administrator
             
              Marguerite Webley,             Administrative Budget Assistance