Ph.D. Candidacy - Jason Frieman

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Congratulations to NSF Fellow Jason Frieman for his successful completion of the Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations!Jason received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Tech in May 2012. He joined HPEPL as an undergraduate research assistant in 2010 and earned several accolades for his undergraduate work including the 2012 Aerospace Engineering Outstanding Senior Scholar Award, a 2012 President’s Undergraduate Research Award, and an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Competition. After an internship with SpaceWorks Engineering, he rejoined the lab as a NSF Fellow in August 2012 and is currently researching annular helicon closed drift thrusters as well as ionic liquid-based electric propulsion systems. Jason has also worked with the Georgia Tech Center for Space Systems since August 2011 as an attitude determination and control subsystem engineer, propulsion subsystem lead, project systems engineer, and student adviser for Prox-1, the winning microsatellite mission from the seventh iteration of the AFOSR and AFRL University Nanosat Program currently scheduled for launch in 2015. His interests are mainly in the fields of spacecraft engineering and EP system development. -