mitchell.walker@ae.gatech.edu
Guggenheim
449
US
Office: (404) 385-2757
Fax: (404) 894-2760
Instructor information
Specializations and Research Interests
Dr. Walker’s primary research
interests lie in electric propulsion, plasma physics, and hypersonic aerodynamics/plasma
interaction. He has extensive design and testing experience with Hall thrusters
and ion engines. Dr. Walker performed seminal work in Hall thruster clustering
and vacuum chamber facility effects. His current research activities involve
both theoretical and experimental work in advanced spacecraft propulsion systems,
diagnostics, plasma physics, helicon plasma sources, magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters,
and pulsed inductive thrusters. He also teaches a Jet and Rocket Propulsion
course.
| Education |
Teaching Interests (Course
List)
|
| Ph.D. 2004 University of Michigan |
Jet and Rocket Propulsion (AE
4451) |
| M.S.E. 2000 University of Michigan |
Rockets (AE 6450) |
| B.S.E. 1999 University of Michigan
|
Electric Propulsion |
| Society Memberships |
Positions Held at Georgia
Tech |
| Member of AIAA (Electric Propulsion
Technical Committee) |
Assistant Professor of Aerospace
Engineering 2005- Present |
| American Society for Engineering
Education (ASEE) |
Head of the High-Power Electric
Propulsion Laboratory |
| Electric Rocket Propulsion Society
(ERPS) |
|
| Sigma Gamma Tau |
|
| Tau Beta Pi |
|
Honors and Awards
NASA Faculty Fellow, 2005
Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow, 2005
Arnold M. Kuethe Aerospace Engineering Fellowship, 2004
MEPO Academic Achievement Award, University of Michigan, 2001
Michigan Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship, 2001, 2003
Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan (NSF sponsored), 2000
GEM Fellowship, 1999
Aerospace Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan,
1998
Selected Active Projects
1. “Optimized Magnetic Nozzles for MPD Thrusters”, supported by NASA.