Jack Ercol

Carl J. Ercol (Jack) is a member of the Principal Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and is also a non-NASA member of the NESC Passive Thermal Control Technical Discipline Team. He is the supervisor of the Thermal Design and Analysis section in the space department's Mechanical Systems group. Jack received a BSME from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 1982 and an MSME from the University of Maryland in 1985 where his graduate study was in energy conversion and thermodynamics. He has worked at APL since August, 1991, serving as the lead thermal control engineer for the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR-Shoemaker) spacecraft, MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to successfully orbit the planet Mercury, and the New Horizons spacecraft (Pluto). He was the lead thermal engineer for the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft thermal control and Solar Array Cooling System (SACS) during design, fabrication and testing and is now the lead thermal engineer during flight operations. He also served as a member of OSIRIS-Rex SRB. Before working at APL, Mr. Ercol was employed for six years at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) were he began his career as a spacecraft thermal control engineer.