Doran Baker was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1931. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah and worked for the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory in Massachusetts before becoming a professor of Electrical Engineering at Utah State University in 1959. Early in his career he helped found the Electro-Dynamics Laboratory, which he later merged with the University of Utah’s Upper Air Research Laboratory to create the Space Dynamics Laboratory. In addition to this, he was Co-Director of the Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium and founding editor of the Rocky Mountain Space Grant Symposium Proceedings. He remained dedicated to teaching and mentoring throughout his career, and retired as a professor of Electrical Engineering at USU in 2021 after 62 years of service. Outside of his professional work, he enjoyed researching the history of Cache Valley and wrote multiple publications on this subject. Mr. Baker passed away in 2022 at the age of 90.