Faculty
Sven Bilen
Email: sgb100@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-1526
Office Address: 213c Hammond Building
Title: Professor
Unit: School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs
Webpage: https://www.sedtapp.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=SGB100
Research Interests:
- Biomedical Devices
- Computational Science
- Electromagnetics
- Engineering Design
- Remote Sensing and Space Systems
- Space Propulsion and Physics
- Systems Engineering
About:
Sven G. Bilén is Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering at Penn State and Head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology, and Professional Programs. He is a member of the EE Department’s Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory and also a member of the Center for Combustion, Power and Propulsion. He is the founding director of the Certificate in Space Systems Engineering and the Student Space Programs Lab. Bilén’s research interests, coordinated through his direction of the Systems Design Lab, include the areas of space systems design; electrodynamic-tethers; spacecraft–plasma interactions; plasma diagnostics; software-defined radio techniques and systems; wireless sensor systems; systems design; and engineering entrepreneurship.
