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ASTE 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 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
     
  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
     
   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
     
  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
       
  Cedrick Ngalande Visiting Assistant Professor; Space environment, spacecraft propulsion, alternative energy
       
  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  
  Joseph Wang Associate Professor; Electric propulsion, space environment and spacecraft interactions, particle simulation algorithms for gases and plasmas, microfluidics  
       
  James Wertz Adjunct Professor, (Microcosm); space mission design  
       
  Peter Will Research Professor; robotics, MEMS, design and manufacturing  


LECTURERS

            Mohamed Abid
  (NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Spacecraft Sensors
            David Barnhart   (Information Sciences Institute); Spacecraft Prototyping
            Bryan Cooley   (Aerospace Corporation); Spacecraft Dynamics
            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
            G. P. Purohit
  (Aerospace Corporation); Spacecraft Thermal Control and Propulsion
            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 Assistant