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Daniel
Hastings, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Engineering Systems Division, Professor
of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
MIT |
Dr.
Hastings holds a Ph.D. from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics,
which he received in 1980. He has taught courses and seminars
in plasma physics, rocket propulsion, advanced space power
and propulsion systems, aerospace policy, and space systems
engineering.
Dr.
Hastings served as Chief Scientist of the Air Force from
1997 to 1999. In that role, he served as chief scientific
adviser to the chief of staff and the secretary and provided
assessments on a wide range of scientific and technical
issues affecting the Air Force mission. He led several influential
studies on where the Air Force should invest in space, global
energy projection, and options for a science and technology
workforce for the 21st century.
Dr.
Hastings’ recent research has concentrated on issues
of space systems and space policy, and has also focused
on issues related to spacecraft-environmental interactions,
space propulsion, space systems engineering, and space policy.
He has published many papers and a book in the field of
spacecraft-environment interactions and several papers in
space propulsion and space systems. He has led several national
studies on government investment in space technology.
Dr.
Hastings is a Fellow of the AIAA and a member of the International
Academy of Astronautics. He is serving as a member of the
NASA Advisory Council, the National Academies Government
University Industry Research Roundtable and is the chair
of the Applied Physics Lab Science and Technology Advisory
Panel as well as the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
He is a member of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory Committee
and is on the Board of Trustees of the Aerospace Corporation.
He also served as a member of the National Academy of Engineering's
1996 and 1997 Organizing Committee for Frontiers of Engineering
and is a consultant to the Institute for Defense Analysis.
Please
also view: http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/hastings/bio.html
and http://web.mit.edu/hastings/www/home.html.
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