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Professor of the Practice
Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Engineering Science and Mechanics Building
Room 305
Phone: (404) 385-7641
Fax: (404) 894-2760
david.spencer@aerospace.gatech.edu
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David Spencer is a Professor of the Practice within the School of Aerospace Engineering and Director for the
Center for Space Systems, a multi-disciplinary education and research center dedicated to excellence in space
system engineering. He teaches the capstone space systems design series of courses, and is conducting
research on collaborative observation systems for studying the coastal oceans. Mr. Spencer joined the
Georgia Tech faculty in 2008 after seventeen years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While at JPL, he
was the Deputy Project Manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander, Mission Manager for the Deep Impact and Mars
Odyssey projects, and mission designer for Mars Pathfinder. He is the author or co-author of technical
publications in the fields of planetary mission design, flight operations, and system engineering.
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