Hats off to Aerospace Engineering professor, Mitchell Walker, and his lab for their great Halloween costumes. Calling themselves the AE Avengers, they were ready to save Georgia Tech and the world.
When not working their secret jobs as the AE Avengers, Dr. Walker’s primary research interests lie in electric propulsion, plasma physics, and hypersonic aerodynamics/plasma interaction. He has extensive design and testing experience with Hall thrusters and ion engines. His current research activities involve both theoretical and experimental work in advanced spacecraft propulsion systems, diagnostics, plasma physics, helicon plasma sources, magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, and pulsed inductive thrusters. He also teaches the undergraduate Jet & Rocket Propulsion course, as well as the graduate level Rocket Propulsion and Electric Propulsion courses.
