Ps Goel
Electrical Engineering
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Prem Shankar Goel did his BE in Electrical Engineering from University of Jodhpur, ME in Applied Electronics and Servomechanism from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and PhD from Bangalore University. He started his career initiating activity on Satellite Altitude Control System for spinning RS-1 satellite at Trivandrum and later moved to Bangalore as part of Arya Bhata Project team. He was Chairman, Spacecraft System Advisory Board for IRS-1; Project Engineer, AOCS for APPLE; and Associate Project Director of INSAT-2. He was Head, Control System Division; Group Director of AOCS; Deputy Director, Mission and Control Area; Associate Director of ISAC; and was Director, ISRO Satellite Centre (1997-2005). He was secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences(2005-2008) and later Chairman RAC, DRDO. Currently, he is Prof MGK menon DRDO Chair and Honorary Distinguished ISRO Professor.
Research Interest
Satellite Control Systems, Space Technology
