Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Positions
- Professor (also Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering; Applied Physics)
- Director, SPRL/XTRM Labs
Research Group
- Space Electrodynamics and Tether Systems
Lab/Program Affiliations
- Radiation Laboratory (EECS)
- Space Physics Research Laboratory / XTRM LABS (CoE)
- Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Lab (AERO)
- Multidisciplinary Design Program
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1991, Stanford University
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1979, University of Illinois, Urbana
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1977, University of Illinois, Urbana
Current Research Interests
- Investigations of plasma electrodynamics with emphasis to space electrodynamic tethered systems, electric propulsion applications, and electron and ion beam effects (e.g. cold-cathode field emission cathodes, relativistic beams)
- Plasma diagnostics (e.g. microwave/millimeter wave interferometer, Langmuir Probes, floating potential monitors)
- Spacecraft technology
Teaching
- EECS 430/AOSS 431: Radiowave Propagation and Link Design
- ENG 490: Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Pilot