- Supports the Dean with the goal of elevating the quality and impact of all College activities.- Leads efforts to implement strategy in key operational areas including student success, industry engagement, facilities, communications, and faculty development.- Creates plans to build new programs or refresh existing ones to respond to dynamic markets.

Led projects conducting modeling and simulation of the ballistic missile defense system in support of the Missile Defense Agency's system engineering process. Developed requirements for missile defense radars and interceptors. Built models of missile defense systems in Matlab, Fortran, and Python.

• Operated $35M lab with $200K annual budget -- included automotive, microscopy, metrology, material testing, electronics, CAD/3D printing, composites, and CNC machining areas.• Taught courses in dynamics, experimental mechanics, material fabrication and mechanics & machine design• Advised design projects on composite UAVs, formula racecars, robotic vehicles, and numerous experimental projects involving servo-hydraulic test frames, strain gages, thermocouples, and load and torque cells.• Created first finite model of residual stress relaxation due to cyclic loading in nominally linear elastic stress-strain cycles.• Developed and experimentally validated theory for vibration of tapered C-section beams. Enables design of light weight aerospace structures without complex finite element analysis.

• Conducted requirements definition, engineering trade studies, and concept development for $250M next generation airborne laser for ballistic missile defense.• Began High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft experiments.

• Conducted $110M per year flight test program for $5B Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft - the most powerful continuous wave laser ever built. Coordinated flight test, range, targets, and launch support teams spanning 300+ personnel at 16 locations.• Transitioned ABL to a science and technology (S&T) program. Created and executed 17 new test objectives investigating aero optics, laser propagation and jitter reduction.

• Responsible for ABL systems engineering, software engineering, environmental compliance, safety, quality, mission assurance, risk management, and logistics. Coordinated aircraft, beam control, laser, software, and test and targets IPTs. • Managed technology development projects in areas of solid state lasers, deformable mirrors, infrared cameras & advanced optical materials.• Conducted historic first ever laser shootdown of a ballistic missile.

• Dissertation: “Predicting Fatigue Crack Growth through Residual Stress Fields”• Developed 3D finite element models to predict fatigue crack growth through complex residual stress fields such as those surrounding cold worked aircraft fastener holes. Demonstrated the evolution of highly curved crack fronts observed in experiments.

• Administered 19 person $2M per year aging aircraft research program. Conducted finite element analysis of dented KC-135 fuselage panel buckling and saved $2.4M in annual maintenance. Built CAD and finite element models of C-130 wing box for damage tolerance analyses. Conducted finite element analysis and strain gage measurements of rifle barrel vibration.• Taught courses in aeroelasticity, dynamics, experimental methods, and material mechanics.

Conducted vibration and fatigue experiments on compressor and turbine blades using high power shakers, laser vibrometry and holography, and accelerometers. Minimized bladed disk vibration with optimum blade mistuning arrangements. Programmed LabVIEW to automate damping measurements across range of temperatures and frequencies. Measured frequency response functions, natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping.

• Master’s Thesis: “Finite Element Model Updating Using Anti-Resonant Frequencies” • Developed a new method for updating finite element models based on experimental data to remotely detect damage in a structure.

• Flight test project manager, project engineer, and certified in flight test conductor. Planned, conducted and reported on various cargo aircraft flight test projects. • Personally briefed results of HC 130 accident investigation to the Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Senators, family members of the crew, and television and print news media.