Jordi Puig-Suari is a professor and

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technology developer. He is the co-inventor of the

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standard together with

Bob Twiggs Robert J. "Bob" Twiggs is a Professor of Astronautics and Space Science at Morehead State University. He is responsible, along with Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University, for co-inventing the CubeSat reference design for m ...

, and the co-founder of

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Early life and education

Puig-Suari was born in the Catalan region of Spain in 1965 to parents Josep Puig Mas and Leonor Suari Rojo. After moving to the United States, Puig-Suari obtained his BS and MS degrees from

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, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He then completed PhD dissertation at Purdue with Professor James Longuski as thesis advisor.

Career

From 1994 to 1998, he was an assistant professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University. Puig-Suari is a professor at Cal Poly, and served as chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly from 2004 to 2008. As of 2017, Puig-Suari had participated in 8 satellite development efforts and the launch of over 130 CubeSats worldwide. In 2011 Puig-Suari and Scott MacGillivray, former manager of nanosatellite programs for

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, established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in

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, to sell miniature

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packages for small satellites, with the goal to increase the volume available for payloads. In 2022, Puig-Suari was inducted into the Space Foundation's

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for his work developing and popularizing the CubeSat standard. That same year, Puig-Suari was also awarded the

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, one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia, by the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Puig-Suari, Jordi Living people Rocket scientists Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni Arizona State University faculty California Polytechnic State University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)

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