David Atkinson:
CLASS OF 1973
Mills High SchoolClass of 1973
Millbrae, CA
Burlingame High SchoolClass of 1973
Burlingame, CA
Burlingame Intermediate SchoolClass of 1969
Burlingame, CA
Riverdale Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Portland, OR
Hoover SchoolClass of 1967
Burlingame, CA
David's Story
School
BA in Astronomy/Physics, Whitman College in 1977
BS Electrical Engineering from Washington State in 1980
MS in Astrophysics from Stanford in 1981
PhD in Electrical Engineering from Washington State in 1989
Workplace
My work has been interesting and fun, comprising several different activities. I worked as a professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Idaho from 1989-2016. Currently I'm a senior research engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Project Scientist on the JPL New Front...Expand for more
iers Saturn Probe mission, and Deputy Principal Investigator on the French Hera Saturn Probe mission. Since the early 1980's I have worked for both NASA and the European Space Agency on several outer planetary missions including the Galileo probe mission to Jupiter (NASA), and currently working on the Cassini/Huygens probe mission to Saturn/Titan (ESA). From 1998-2000 I worked in Washington, DC in the Education Division at NASA HQ, and continue to work on a number of statebased NASA Education and Research programs for NASA and ESA.
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