Aroh Barjatya

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Biography

Dr. Aroh Barjatya is Professor of Engineering Physics and Director of the Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab (http://sail.erau.edu). He is a space systems expert with an eye for looking at the big picture and a passion for finding efficient out-of-the-box solutions for tough technical, analytical, and management problems. His research interests and active projects span small satellites, sounding rockets, high altitude balloons, spacecraft charging, embedded electronics, space situational awareness, and space systems engineering.

• Dr. Barjatya has written or co-written eleven successful proposals over the last decade to various federal funding agencies that resulted in over $74M of funding for delivering hardware to be launched in sounding rockets, CubeSats/SmallSats, and high-altitude balloons. He has overseen seven space flight projects from the proposal stage to requirements review, PDR, CDR, MRR, launch and commissioning. He is currently part of 6 additional missions, including a NASA mission to Mars.
• As a tenured Full Professor and Program Coordinator for Engineering Physics program at ERAU, he led and developed a five-year strategic plan for the department, started the Spacecraft Instrumentation area of concentration within the major, and performed annual assessment of the program, including a five-year comprehensive review that provided a metrics-based assessment of our progress.
• He is active member in multiple cross disciplinary academic societies such as AGU, Senior Member in IEEE, AIAA, etc. He has also organized sessions and panels at multiple conferences and workshops.
• He currently serves on the NASA Heliophysics Advisory Committee and NASA Space Environment Technical Definition Team, and a past member of NASA Sounding Rocket Working Group.

Education

• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering: Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University
• M.S. - Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Utah State University

Currently Teaching

• EP 800: Dissertation
• EP 496: Space Systems Design I

Courses Taught

Spacecraft Systems Engineering (EP394)
Space Systems Design (EP496, EP497)
Microcomputers and Electronic Instrumentation (EP391, EP391Lab)
Advanced Electricity and Magnetism (EP703)
Physics I (PS150)
Physics III (PS250)

Publications

• Research Panel: Orbital (Barjatya, Aroh, Cunio, Phillip M., Fineberg, Laurence, Treptow, Justin, Bass, Timothy, Held, Jason, Ph.D.) Space Traffic Management Conference (2016)
• Observations of Small Satellites and CubeSats Using the OSCOM System (Bilardi, Sergei, Gasdia, Forrest, Barjatya, Aroh) Space Traffic Management Conference (2016)
• High Frame Rate, Simultaneous Multi-Point Observations Using the OSCOM System (Bilardi, Sergei, Gasdia, Forrest, Barjatya, Aroh) Space Traffic Management Conference (2016)
• The Design and Capabilities of OSCOM System (Rupp, Patrick, Stroup, Joseph, Lischuk, Yevginy, Balardi, Sergei J., Gasdia, Forrest W., Barjatya, Aroh) Space Traffic Management Conference (2016)
• Contamination Effects on Fixed-Bias Langmuir Probes (Steigies, C.T., Barjatya, Aroh) Publications (2012)
• Multi-Instrument Comparisons of D-Region Plasma Measurements (Friedrich, M., Torkar, K. M., Hoppe, U. P., Bekkeng, T. A., Barjatya, Aroh, Rapp, M.) Publications (2013)
• Payload Charging Events in the Mesosphere and Their Impact on Langmuir Type Electric Probes (Bekkeng, T. A., Barjatya, Aroh, Hoppe, U. P., Friedrich, M.) Publications (2013)
• Plasma Density Analysis of CubeSat Wakes in the Earth\u2019s Ionosphere (Albarran, Robert M., II, Barjatya, Aroh) Publications (2016)
• Spatial and Temporal Variability in MLT Turbulence Inferred from in situ and Ground-Based Observations During the WADIS-1 Sounding Rocket Campaign (Strelnikov, B., Szewczyk, A., Strelnikova, I., Latteck, R., Baumgarten, G., Barjatya, Aroh, et.al,) Publications (2017)
• Multi-Site Simultaneous Time-Resolved Photometry with a Low Cost Electro-Optics System (Gasdia, F., Barjatya, Aroh, Bilardi, Sergei) Publications (2017)
• Applying Computational Scanline Rendering Models in Satellite Photometry Inversion (Valentine, Henry, Barjatya, Aroh) Space Traffic Management Conference (2018)
• Automated Calibration Techniques for Resident Space Object Observations with the ERAU OSCOM System (Bilardi, Sergei, Barjatya, Aroh) Space Traffic Management Conference (2018)
• Improved Tracking of Resident Space Objects Using the ERAU OSCOM System (Lischuk, Yevgeniy, Stroup, Joseph, Barjatya, Aroh) Space Traffic Management Conference (2018)
• Elevated Electron Temperatures Around Twin Sporadic E Layers at Low Latitude: Observations and the Case for a Plausible Link to Currents Parallel to the Geomagnetic Field (Barjatya, Aroh, St. Maurice, J. P., Swenson, C. M.) Publications (2013)
• Electron Density and Electron Neutral Collision Frequency in the Ionosphere Using Plasma Impedance Probe Measurement (Spencer, E., Patra, S., Andriyas, T., Swenson, C., Ward, J., Barjatya, Aroh) Publications (2008)
• Observations of Triboelectric Charging Effects on Langmuir-Type Probes in Dusty Plasma (Barjatya, Aroh, Swenson, C. M.) Publications (2006)
• Onset Conditions for Equatorial Spread F Determined During Equis II (Hysell, D. L., Larsen, M. F., Swenson, C. M., Barjatya, Aroh, Wheeler, T. F., et.al,) Publications (2005)
• Rocket and Radar Investigation of Background Electrodynamics and Bottom-Type Scattering Layers at the Onset of Equatorial Spread F (Hysell, D. L., Larsen, M. F., Swenson, C. M., Barjatya, Aroh, et. al,) Publications (2006)
• A Comprehensive Rocket and Radar Study of Midlatitude Spread F (Earle, G.D., Bhanja, P., Roddy, P.A., Swenson, C.M., Barjatya, Aroh, et al.,) Publications (2010)
• Invited Article: Data Analysis of the Floating Potential Measurement Unit Aboard the International Space Station (Barjatya, Aroh, Swenson, Charles M., Thompson, Donald C., Wright, Kenneth H.) Publications (2009)
• Simulating Spacecraft Photometry Using Scanline Rendering Frameworks (Valentine, Henry, Graves, Nathan, Barjatya, Aroh) Student Research Symposium (SRS) (2018)
• Simultaneous in Situ Measurements of Small-Scale Structures in Neutral, Plasma, and Atomic Oxygen Densities During the WADIS Sounding Rocket Project (Strelnikov, Boris, Eberhart, Martin, Friedrich, Martin, Hedin, Jonas, Khaplanov, Mikhail, Baumgarten, Gerd, Williams, Bifford P., Staszak, Tristan, Asmus, Heiner, Strelnikova, Irina, Latteck, Ralph, Grygalashvyly, Mykhaylo, L\u00fcbken, Franz-Josef, H\u00f6ffner, Josef, W\u00f6rl, Raimund, Gumbel, J\u00f6rg, L\u00f6hle, Stefan, Fasoulas, Stefanos, Rapp, Markus, Barjatya, Aroh, Taylor, Michael J., Pautet, Pierre-Dominique) Aroh Barjatya
• Vortex: A New Rocketexperiment to Studymesoscale Dynamics at the Turbopause (Lehmacher, Gerald A., Snively, Jonathan B., Barjatya, Aroh, Larsen, Miguel F., Taylor, Michael J., L\u00fcbken, Franz-Josef, Chau, Jorge L.) Jonathan B. Snively
• Vortex: A New Rocketexperiment to Studymesoscale Dynamics at the Turbopause (Lehmacher, Gerald A., Snively, Jonathan B., Barjatya, Aroh, Larsen, Miguel F., Taylor, Michael J., L\u00fcbken, Franz-Josef, Chau, Jorge L.) Aroh Barjatya
• Vortex: A New Rocketexperiment to Studymesoscale Dynamics at the Turbopause (Lehmacher, Gerald A., Snively, Jonathan B., Barjatya, Aroh, Larsen, Miguel F., Taylor, Michael J., L\u00fcbken, Franz-Josef, Chau, Jorge L.) Publications

Memberships and Credentials

IEEE Senior Member

AGU Member

AIAA Member

AAAS Member

Awards, Honors and Recognitions

• Dean’s Award for Leadership and Innovation, College of Arts and Sciences, 2021
• Outstanding Researcher of the Year, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 2019
• Outstanding Graduate Student, ECE Department, USU, Logan, UT, 2007
• Outstanding Paper Award, Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, 2005
• Outstanding Poster Award, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA     2004