Angie Bukley has 25 years of professional experience in space and defense systems and is the Acting Vice President for Research at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA. From November 2003 - June 2007, she was a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA. Prior to entering academe, Dr. Bukley worked with a number of space systems and defense contractors on a wide variety of flight programs. She also spent seven years at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama where she directed the Large Space Structures Laboratory and developed a number of remote sensing applications. She is a faculty member of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France and has held department and team project chair positions during the ISU Summer Session Program since 1995. She also teaches Space Engineering courses in the ISU Master of Space Studies Program. Dr. Bukley has over 70 technical publications and the book Artificial Gravity that she co-wrote and co-edited was published in July 2007. Dr. Bukley holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, with a specialty in Control Theory, from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She is an Associate Fellow in the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics and an active member in the American Astronautical Society, International Federation for Automatic Control, National Space Society, and American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Bukley received the 2003 University of Alabama in Huntsville Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award.