Timothy Setterfield

Guidance and Control Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Timothy P. Setterfield is a Guidance and Control Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. He holds a BScE in Mechanical Engineering from Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, a MASc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, and a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously worked at Nanometrics Seismological Instruments developing a miniature broadband seismometer, at Carleton University developing a planetary micro-rover prototype, at the European Space Agency coordinating graduate student research in micro and hypergravity, and at MIT researching vision-based navigation using the SPHERES-VERTIGO platform.