Professor Kenneth D. Mease

E-mail: kmease@uci.edu

Kenneth D. Mease serves as Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He received his B.S. from the University of Michigan and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He began his career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Member of the Technical Staff of the Navigation Systems Section. He then served as Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, before joining the faculty of UC Irvine. His research has contributed to the guidance, navigation and control of aircraft and spacecraft, time-scale decomposition for nonlinear dynamical systems, and molecular control, and has been sponsored by NASA, the Jet Propulsion Lab, NSF, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Rockwell International Corporation, and Boeing. He has consulted and had contracts with Universal Space Lines, Optimal Synthesis and Guided Systems Technologies. He has served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics and the AAS Journal of the Astronautical Sciences. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and a Member of SIAM and the SAE Control and Guidance Systems Committee. For more information on Prof. Mease's research group and projects, please see

http://www.eng.uci.edu/fdcl/