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Address: Office: Email Address: mikeg@usc.edu Websites:
Blazing The Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry,
Astronautics, spacecraft and space mission design, space physics, space instrumentation and space sensors, space plasmas, spacecraft technologies.
Current NASA Missions TWINS - mission Co-Investigator IBEX- mission Co-Investigator USC Academic Positions: 2004-2007: Chair, Astronautics and Space Technology Division
1993-now: Professor of Astronautics; Professor of Aerospace Engineering 1990-93: Research Scientist, Space Sciences Center Other Professional Positions: 1988: Visiting Scientist, FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987-1990: Research Fellow, Institute for Problems in Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences 1977-1986: Research Fellow, Space Research Institute (IKI), USSR Academy of Sciences Selected Publications:  M. Gruntman, "The Time for Academic Departments in Astronautical Engineering," Space-2007, Long Beach, Calif., AIAA-2007-6042, 2007.M. Gruntman, "Solar System Frontier: Exploring the Heliospheric Interface from 1 AU," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 59(2), 54-58, 2006. M. Gruntman, Blazing the Trail: The Early History of Spacecraft and Rocketry. Reston: AIAA, 2004. ISBN 1-56347-705-X M. Gruntman, "Instrumentation for Interstellar Exploration," Advances in Space Research 34(1), 204-212, 2004 M. Gruntman, "Imaging the Three-Dimensional Solar Wind," Journal of Geophysical Research 106, 8205-8216, 2001 M. Gruntman, E. C. Roelof, D. G. Mitchell, H. J. Fahr, H. O. Funsten and D. J. McComas, "Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of the Heliospheric Boundary Region," Journal of Geophysical Research 106(A8), 15767-15781, 2001 M. Gruntman, "Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Space Plasmas," Review of Scientific Instruments 68(10), 3617-3656, 1997 M. Gruntman, "EUV Radiation Filtering by Free-Standing Transmission Gratings," Applied Optics 34(25), 5732-5737, 1995 M. Gruntman, "Neutral Solar Wind Properties: Advance Warning of Major Geomagnetic Storms," Journal of Geophysical Research 99(A10), 19213-19227, 1994 M. Gruntman, "Anisotropy of the Energetic Neutral Atom Flux in the Heliosphere," Planetary and Space Science 40, 439-445, 1992List of Publications
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Fellow
American Physical Society American Geophysical Union
2001: NASA Group Achievement Award 2000: NASA Group Achievement Award 1999: School of Engineering, Exceptional Service Award 1998: Certificate, Los Angeles Section, AIAA 1997: Outstanding Teaching Award, USC School of Engineering 1997: Certificate of Appreciation, Los Angeles Section, AIAA
AME 105, Introduction to Aerospace Engineering AME 380, Basics of Astronautics and Space Science AME 382, Astronautics and Space Environment II AME 473, Spacecraft Propulsion AME 482, Spacecraft Design AME 501, Spacecraft Systems Professional Service: Member, advisory panels on science and technology: NASA HQ, NASA centers, DOEMember (2005-now), Editorial Board, ASTRA Member (2001-2003), Editorial Board, Review of Scientific Instruments Member, Science and Technology Definition Team, Interstellar Probe Member, Sun-Earth Connection Roadmap Team Member, Technical Advisory Board, Worlds Beyond, California Science Center |
