David H. Atkinson

David H. Atkinson received a B.A. in Astronomy/Physics from Whitman College, and a M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford, and a B.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University. From 1981–1986 he worked as a systems engineer on the NASA Galileo probe mission at NASA Ames Research Center, and from 1989 until 2016 he taught in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Idaho. Dr. Atkinson led the Galileo probe Doppler Wind Experiment, and was a Co-Investigator of the Cassini Huygens (Titan probe) Doppler Wind Experiment, and Chair of the Huygens Descent Trajectory Working Group. Dr. Atkinson is currently a senior systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.