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Scott Tucker

Scott

Tucker

Roles

Director of Engineering

Biography

As the leader of LASP’s engineering division, Scott manages 48 active flight and technology development projects and supervises nearly 275 professional and student engineers. He brings more than two decades of engineering and project management experience to the role, much of it gained at LASP. This includes working as the mechanical engineering lead for the Axial Double Probe instrument on NASA’s MMS mission, managing the lab’s mechanical analysis and test group, and more recently serving as the program manager on multiple NASA spaceflight instruments, including the SUDA and IDEX dust instruments on NASA’s Europa Clipper and IMAP missions. Scott holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

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