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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. (818) 354-5011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 1993
Ronald A. Ploszaj has been named deputy assistant laboratory
director for the Office of Technical Divisions at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory.
Ploszaj, whose position became effective April 5, succeeds
Dr. James King Jr., who was recently named assistant laboratory
director for the Office of Technical Divisions.
Ploszaj joined JPL in 1967 as a spacecraft systems engineer.
He has served as a line supervisor and manager and has held key
project managerial positions in the Flight Projects Office and
the Technology and Applications Program Office.
He has served as manager of the Mechanical and Systems
Engineering and Research Division since 1987.
Prior to joining JPL, Ploszaj was an electronics engineer at
the U.S. Naval Avionics Facility in Indianapolis.
Born in Chicago on April 17, 1939, Ploszaj earned a
bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Valparaiso
University, Indiana in 1961 and a master's degree in the same
discipline from Purdue University in 1965.
He is the recipient of the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
and numerous group and project achievement awards.
Ploszaj is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA).
He and his wife, Joanne, live in La Crescenta, Calif. They
have two adult children.
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