Full Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior Principal Engineer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Dr. Muhammad Musaddique Ali Rafique is Full Professor, Head of Department (Department of Fusion Engineering and Department of Space Engineering) and Founding Director (Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.), Fusion Engineering and Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.), Astronautics and Manned propulsion) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and President, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Principal Engineer at Eastern Engineering Solutions Inc..
He is author of more than 122 peer reviewed and non peer reviewed journal articles, preprints, abstracts, conference papers, abstracted and non abstracted reports, book chapters, monographs, edited volumes and books. He has wealth of industrial experience in fields of rocket propulsion, energetics, fusion reactor design, device design, alloy development, inspection and testing, manufacturing and astronautics. He has myriad of research interest in development of materials, fusion materials, irradiation damage, astronautic materials, corrosion, fatigue, creep, mechanical testing, non destructive testing and microscopic characterizations.