Eric Danielson

Office Hours

Fall 2025:

Tue: 5:00-6:55 p.m., Location: Online

Biography:

Eric Danielson was first exposed to FORTRAN as part of a Saturday high school program at JPL. The Saturday class would walk onto the JPL campus and sit at someone’s actual office desk to log into a VAX terminal to edit, compile and run FORTRAN77 code.

Eric has since earned a B.S. in General Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and an M.S. in Computer Science from USC. While at HMC, he worked at JPL as a summer student. His tasks included running a radiative transfer code (FORTRAN) and supporting a small team of scientists.

After HMC, Eric accepted a full-time position at JPL. To make better use of the latest Sun Microsystem workstations installed in the Science Division computer lab, he took some evening classes at Glendale College that included C Programing and Unix Shell Programming. Soon after, a co-worker and mentor at JPL encouraged Eric to take over his teaching workload at Glendale College. Eric started teaching BASIC Programming and FORTRAN in 1989. He eventually took over the Unix class and has since added the Unix/Linux System Administration class to the Glendale College curriculum.

Eric is currently the Science Data System (SDS) System Engineer for two flight instrument projects at JPL. He has many years of Unix/Linux experience that he enjoys sharing with his students.

For fun, Eric enjoys challenging his DSLR photography skills with high school sports coverage for a local newspaper.