Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari

Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari has been advisor to the CubeSat Project at Cal Poly for the last 7 years (since its conception). Dr. Puig-Suari has established the Multidisciplinary Space Technology Lab (MSTL) at Cal Poly which now acts as home of the PolySat Project. In addition, he has served as chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly since 2004. In 1998, Dr. Puig-Suari joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo as an Associated Professor where he was charged with leading the development of the astronautics program. From 1994 to 1998, he was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Arizona State University where he focused on spacecraft design, low-cost space systems, vehicle dynamics and control, and tethered satellites. While an associate professor at Arizona State University, he was involved in the ASUSat-1 project. Dr. Puig-Suari earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University. In 1993 he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. During his time there, he worked extensively with modeling and analysis of tethered, orbital systems and specialized in modeling tethered lifting bodies for aerobraking applications. In 2004, Dr. Puig-Suari and the Cal Poly CubeSat Program were awarded the Buzz Aldrin Space Education & Workforce Award from The California Space Authority.