Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
Aerospace Engineering Department Seminar: Cornell University Space Technology and Exploration Initiatives
Elaine Petro
Assistant Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
About the seminar:
The talk will focus on emerging efforts at Cornell University in the fields of spacecraft propulsion, small satellite missions, and cross-disciplinary space mission and instrument design. An overview of both existing space systems infrastructure and new initiatives will be discussed. Topics will span the range from molecular-scale propellant interactions to cross-continental CubeSat collaborations.
About the speaker:
Elaine Petro is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She is the director of ASTRAlab, a research lab focused on sustainable space propulsion and exploration architectures. Elaine completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, in the Space Power and Propulsion Laboratory, studying water plasma chemistry for propulsion. She also spent several years in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a visiting student and post-doctoral researcher, studying electrospray thruster technology for small satellite platforms. Elaine has been named an ARCS Scholar, National Science Foundation and Amelia Earhart fellow, and was recognized as one of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Twenty20s emerging leaders in aerospace in 2016.
Prior to graduate studies at UMD, Petro worked on the MAVEN Mars Orbiter, and James Webb Space Telescope, and Hubble Space Telescope missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Elaine is passionate about diversity and inclusion in STEM and is a founding member of the national Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics organization. Outside of academia, Elaine enjoys hiking, snowboarding, cycling, and keeps busy with two beagle-mix rescue dogs and a new baby.
Join in-person in the Boeing Lecture Hall, 1109 FXB and zoom - https://umich.zoom.us/j/91364993468
Assistant Professor
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
About the seminar:
The talk will focus on emerging efforts at Cornell University in the fields of spacecraft propulsion, small satellite missions, and cross-disciplinary space mission and instrument design. An overview of both existing space systems infrastructure and new initiatives will be discussed. Topics will span the range from molecular-scale propellant interactions to cross-continental CubeSat collaborations.
About the speaker:
Elaine Petro is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She is the director of ASTRAlab, a research lab focused on sustainable space propulsion and exploration architectures. Elaine completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, in the Space Power and Propulsion Laboratory, studying water plasma chemistry for propulsion. She also spent several years in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a visiting student and post-doctoral researcher, studying electrospray thruster technology for small satellite platforms. Elaine has been named an ARCS Scholar, National Science Foundation and Amelia Earhart fellow, and was recognized as one of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Twenty20s emerging leaders in aerospace in 2016.
Prior to graduate studies at UMD, Petro worked on the MAVEN Mars Orbiter, and James Webb Space Telescope, and Hubble Space Telescope missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Elaine is passionate about diversity and inclusion in STEM and is a founding member of the national Women of Aeronautics and Astronautics organization. Outside of academia, Elaine enjoys hiking, snowboarding, cycling, and keeps busy with two beagle-mix rescue dogs and a new baby.
Join in-person in the Boeing Lecture Hall, 1109 FXB and zoom - https://umich.zoom.us/j/91364993468
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