IT IS my honor and pleasure to have begun serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Propulsion and Power in January 2016. Here, I take this opportunity to introduce myself to its readers, outline my goals, and provide some updated information. Since my graduate student days in the late 1980s, I have had an association with this journal, first as a referee, then as an author, and since 2003, as an Associate Editor. As a long-serving member of the AIAA Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee, I have had close contacts with the AIAA's aerospace propulsion community. Three decades of research considering solid propellants and explosives and pyrotechnic devices, high-speed reactive fluid dynamics, mathematical modeling, and computational simulation of detonations in both solids and gases has given me perspective on the challenges we presently face. Nearly three decades of teaching engineers thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, compressible flow, computational science, applied mathematics, and combustion has given me perspective on the significant human skills we can draw upon to address these challenges.
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