Dr. Mason Peck
- E-mail: mp336 (at) cornell.edu
- Phone: (607) 255-4023
- Cornell Faculty Page / Bio Page
After leaving the Ph.D. program in English at the University of Chicago, Peck earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked at Bell Helicopter from 1993 to 1994 on structural dynamics. From 1994 to 2001 he was an attitude dynamics specialist and systems engineer at Hughes Space and Communications (now Boeing Satellite Systems). During his years at Boeing he served as attitude dynamics lead in the Boeing mission control center, participating in real-time spacecraft operations and helping to resolve spacecraft performance anomalies. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at UCLA as a Howard Hughes Fellow from 1998 to 2001. In 2001 he joined Honeywell Defense and Space Systems , and in 2003 was named Principal Fellow. He has been issued several patents. In July of 2004, he joined the faculty at Cornell University, where he teaches courses in dynamics and control and in the systems engineering program. He was promoted to Associate Professor in fall 2010. In 2012 he was appointed as NASA's Chief Technologist.
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Ph.D. Students
Undergraduate Students and M.Eng. Students
- Guille Metzler '13
- Kevin Lo '13
- Lawrence Brazin '12
- Lemay Perez '13
- Robert McBride '14
- Mark Romanelli '14
Graduate Alumni
Laura Jones, Ph.D. '12
- NSF and NDSEG fellowship recipient
- SSDS doctoral work: Flux-Pinned Spacecraft
- Post-SSDS work: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Michael Norman, Ph.D. '11
- NASA/New York Space Grant recipient
- SSDS doctoral work: Flux-Pinned Spacecraft
- Post-SSDS work: Boeing
Joseph Shoer, Ph.D. '11
- NASA/New York Space Grant recipient
- SSDS doctoral work: Flux-Pinned Spacecraft
- Post-SSDS work: Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Justin Atchison, Ph.D. '10
- NSF and NDSEG fellowship recipient
- SSDS doctoral work: LAO / Sprite Spacecraft
- Post-SSDS work: Applied Physics Laboratory
Daniel Brown, Ph.D. '09
- NSF/IGERT fellowship recipient
- SSDS doctoral work: CMG Robotics
- Post-SSDS work: Ithaco Space Systems
Michele Carpenter, Ph.D. '09
- SSDS doctoral work: CMG Robotics
- Post-SSDS work: Draper Laboratory
Brett Streetman, Ph.D. '08
- NSF/IGERT fellowship recipient
- SSDS doctoral work: Lorentz-Augmented Orbits
- Post-SSDS work: Draper Laboratory
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M.Eng. and Undergraduate Alumni
- Alex Shih '05
- Alexander Lavin '12
- Alexander Rojas '12
- Alfred Ernst '09
- Andrew Kerns '12
- Ben Schwartzbach '05
- Brad Lyon '09
- Brett Sauve '05
- Bryan Kashawlic '07 / M.Eng. '08
- Calvin Winder '12
- Cameron Glass '13
- Chris Jewison '12
- Ellen Chaung '15
- Frances Zhu '14
- Guo Jie Chin '12
- Ian Livingston M.Eng. '09
- Jason D'Souza '12
- Jia Liang Lin '11
- Jillian Gorsuch '10 / M.Eng. '10
- Jose Navarro '12
- Joshua Abeshaus '12
- Joshua Fikentscher '06
- Jun Ma '12
- Justin Churchill '12
- Justin Fishbone '09 / M.Eng. '10
- Kristopher Young '07
- Mark Juncosa '05
- Markus Burkardt '14
- Mason Brody-Carney '13
- Max Knobel '09 / M.Eng. '10
- Paras Sanghavi '13
- Parker Imrie '07
- Patrick MacGregor '11
- Phillipe Tosi '09 / M.Eng. '10
- Richard Koontz '07
- Rob Moore '12
- Rob Zimmerman '07 / M.Eng. '08
- Sachit Butail '06
- Samantha Nowierski '12
- Sarah Mburu '12
- Sharon Kotz M.Eng. '09
- Stephanie Kubala '12
- Tim Szwarc '08
- Timothy Kim '11 / M.Eng.
- Tricia Hevers '12/ M. Eng. /'12
- Will Moseson '12
- William Wilson M.Eng. '09