Bong Wie graduated with honors from the Seoul National Universit's aerospace engineering program in 1975. He holds both an M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University. For four years after graduating from Stanford, Dr Wie worked in the private sector as a control systems engineer for the ford Aerospace Corporation in Palo Alto, Calif, but returned to academia in 1985 as an assistant professor at the University of Texas. In 1989, he moved to Arizona State University as an associate professor in the school's mechanical and aerospace engineering department before accepting a full professorship in 1992. He has consulted for a number of aerospace and engineering corporations, and traveled to Korea and Japan for visiting professorships. Among his affiliations, Dr. Wie is an AIAAA Fellow, a senior member of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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