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Richard Wirz
Title
Professor | Boeing Professor in Mechanical Engineering Design
Organizations
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Additional Positions
Executive Director for Aerospace Research Programs
Office Phone
541.737.8280
Address
221C Dearborn Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
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Space electric propulsion, plasma physics, plasma-material interactions, spacecraft and space mission design, plasma medicine, and clean energy.
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Electric Propulsion Research for Space Travel
Richard Wirz sometimes jokes that the word “aerospace” makes no sense.
“Aero means air, and space means the absence of air,” said Wirz, executive…