Associate Editors

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John J. Blandino, Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), received his B.S. in aeronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from California Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty at WPI, he was a Senior Staff Engineer in the Advanced Propulsion Technology Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His research at JPL included application of plasma sources for materials processing and the development of pulsed plasma and small-scale hydrazine thrusters. In the mission support area, he worked as the Propulsion Engineer for the Deep Space 3 Interferometer and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Missions. His research interests at WPI include droplet characterization in colloid thruster plumes, hollow cathodes, thermal-fluid analysis of millinewton-class hydrazine thrusters, and drag-free spacecraft mission analysis. He is a Member of the AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee and served as a Member of the NASA Space Technology 7 (ST-7) Mission Technology Review Board from 2002 to 2003.