Leadership Accomplishments
As Director of GALCIT

• Led the initiative to revitalize GALICT
• Five new faculty hired between 2005-2007
• Established Masters Program in Space Engineering, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); initiated follow-on PhD program to be launched in 2010; guaranteed the long-term viability of these programs through new fundraising for lectureships and fellowships.
• Oversaw extensive fundraising and renovation of the Guggenheim Laboratory following removal of 10-foot wind tunnel. Four labs built, the Laboratory for Large Space Structures, the Allen Puckett Laboratory of Computational Fluid Mechanics, the Gordon Cann Laboratory of Experimental Innovation, and the Joseph Charyk Center for Bio-Inspired Design; Kármán Conference room rennovated and GALCIT Archives created (made possible by Robert Herzog); and extensive new classroom, conference, office, and social spaces created.
• Established GALCIT Director's Advisory Board to extend friend- and funding-raising reach of GALCIT
• Contributed to the establishment of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech and JPL.
• Led systematic effort to formally involve GALCIT and EAS faculty in joint research projects with JPL, the newly established Keck Institute for Space Studies, and the aerospace industry.
• Co-organizer of international conference to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Space Technology with GALCIT, Northrop Grumman, and JPL
• Incorporated the Aerospace Historical Society (AHS) into GALCIT and became its president.
• Since the 2004 Visiting Committee visit the #1 status of GALCIT in the News and World Report ranking of US graduate programs in Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical engineering has been restored. It now shares the top position with Stanford and MIT. These Aerospace Departments are three and five times bigger than GALCIT respectively.

Caltech Leadership Accomplishments

• Member, Steering Committee, Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS)
• Chair, Lee-Ramo Symposia Committee, EAS Division
• Member, Committee for the Constitution of Caltech's "Institute for Space Science"
• Member, JPL Advisory Council
• Member, JPL Chief Technologist Selection Committee
• Member, Institute's Faculty Board (Caltech's governing body)
• Faculty Nominating Committee, Faculty Board
• Chair, GALCIT/JPL Committee for Space Engineering Education
• Member, EAS Division Steering Committee (DSC)
• Member, Planning Committee for the Future of the Engineering & Applied Sciences Division
• Participated and chaired over thirty departmental committees for faculty hiring, promotions, graduate student awards, laboratory staffing, and rehabilitation

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