Micci, Michael M. Ph.D.
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies
230C Hammond Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-0043 / Fax: 814-865-7092
E-mail: micci@psu.edu
Education
PhD. (1981), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University.
M.S. (1977), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois.
B.S. (1975), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois.
Honors and Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976.
Finalist for the Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in the Aviation/Aerospace Category for the Microwave Arcjet, 1997.
AIAA Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee Best Paper Award, 1997.
Penn State Engineering Society, Outstanding Research Award, 2000.
Research Interests
Rocket propulsion; combustion stability in liquid and solid propellant rockets, liquid propellant atomization, electric propulsion, microwave arcjets, nozzle flows, molecular dynamics