Faculty Directory

EDUCATION

• B.S., Penn State University (Aerospace Engineering)
• S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aeronautics and Astronautics)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• NSF CAREER Award
• Raymond Bisplinghoff Teaching Fellowship (MIT)
• NASA MSFC Summer Faculty Fellowship
• NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Fellow
• Bepi Columbo Prize (University of Padua, Italy)
• AIAA (UMD Chapter) Best Mentor Award (2009-2010, 2010-2011)
• AIAA (UMD Chapter) AIAA Best Professor Award (2012-2013, 2013-2014)
• AIAA (UMD Chapter) Broken Propeller Award (2014-2015)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
• American Astronautical Society (AAS)
• American Physical Society (APS)

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Professional Services

• Reviewer for: AIAA Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Astronautical Sciences.
• Associate Editor, AIAA Journals of Spacecraft and Rockets
• Vice Chair, AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight Technical Committee
• Deputy Director for Education, AIAA Region I

Consulting

• AST SpaceMobile
• Payload Systems
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Axis Engineering Technologies
• AeroAstro
• Draper Laboratories