Indiana Governor Mike Braun has appointed Dr. Glen Kissel of Evansville to the University of Southern Indiana Board of Trustees for a term beginning September 7, 2025, through June 30, 2026. Kissel fills the remainder of a four-year term previously held by W. Harold Calloway, who retired from the Board earlier this year.
Kissel served for two decades as a faculty member in the Engineering Department at USI. During his tenure, he was responsible for developing the program plan and overseeing the initial accreditation visit for the University’s first named engineering degree, the Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He also created USI’s first engineering optics course and laboratory, and as faculty advisor, guided the UNITE [Undergraduate Nano Ionospheric Temperature Explorer] CubeSat project, which launched the first spacecraft in orbit by a public institution in Indiana.
Prior to joining USI, Kissel spent eight years as a technical staff member at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he served as an attitude control engineer for the Galileo spacecraft—the first satellite to orbit Jupiter—as well as on an early concept mission to Pluto…