Aroh Barjatya

Dr. Barjatya is a tenured Associate Professor within the Physical Sciences Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. He is the program coordinator of Engineering Physics program, where he has started the Spacecraft Instrumentation area of concentration six years ago. In addition to myriad physics and basic electronics courses, he also teaches once-a-year course on Spacecraft Systems Engineering that involves case studies of small satellites. Furthermore, he also advises student teams pursuing senior year capstone projects involving small satellites as well student clubs interested in small satellite and related engineering technologies. For the past decade, Dr. Barjatya has been involved with design, calibration and data analysis efforts for Langmuir probes, impedance probes, and E-field probes for several NASA sounding rocket campaigns (21.117, 29.036, 29.037, 36.218, 46.009, 46.010) as well as two German rocket missions: WADIS-1 and WADIS-2. He has also analyzed the data from Floating Potential Measurement Unit aboard the International Space Station. He was also the Co-I on the NSF DICE CubeSat mission that carried fixed bias Langmuir probes, and is currently the Co-I on NASA LLITED CubeSat mission. He has also developed the OSCOM system for ground based space situational awareness. His lab website is sail.erau.edu