Colorado State University
Electric Propulsion & Plasma Engineering
Prof. John D. Williams, Director
Phone: (970)491-8564
Fax: (970)491-8671
Email: john.d.williams@colostate.edu

  • Professors John Williams and Ketul Popat (Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering) were recognized in the College of Engineering's "Infrastructure" publication for thier 2008-2009 senior design practicum collaboration. The students created a plasma-based biomedical coating system to investigate surface modifications that may improve dental and orthopedic implant integration.

  • September 2007: Professor Paul Wilbur was awarded a Medal of Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion at the 30th International Electric Propulsion Conference held in Florence, Italy.
    • "For his seminal work and many classic contributions to ion propulsion, and for his invaluable role in EP education."
Paul Wilbur IEPC 2007

  • The NASA-JPL Dawn mission launched September 27th. Dawn will visit the asteroids Vesta (2011) and Ceres (2015) using ion propulsion.

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