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Professor Robert E. Ball

See:
www.aircraft-survivability.com
http://faculty.nps.edu/vitae/cgi-bin/vita.cgi?p=display_vita&id=1023567619
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-robert-e-ball/45/b32/60a
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Aircraft-Survivability-Analysis-Education/dp/1563475820
http://books.google.com/books/about/NASA_CR_1987.html?id=fErU8TnZ88oC

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

EDUCATION:
PhD - Northwestern Univ, 1962
MS - Northwestern Univ, 1959
BS - Northwestern Univ, 1958

NPS EXPERIENCE:

1998 Retired from NPS in November
1994–98 Distinguished Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
1978–94 Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
1970–78 Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics
1967–70 Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautics

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

2002–pres Consultant to SURVICE Engineering
1998–2000 Employed by DENMAR CALIFORNIA
1994–95 Consultant to the Institute for Defense Analyses
1983–94 President, Aerospace Educational Services, Inc., Monterey
1969–83 Consultant to Anamet Labs, San Carlos, CA
1967–70 President, Structural Analytics, Inc.
1965–67 Director of Solid Mechanics, Dynamic Science Corp, Monrovia, CA
1964–65 Member of Technical Staff, Dynamic Science Corp, Monrovia, CA
1962–64 Member of Technical Staff, National Engineering Science Co, Pasadena

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Aircraft Combat Survivability
Structures and Structural Dynamics

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Survivability
Structures and Structural Dynamics

AWARDS:

1996 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) “Survivability Award”
2000 DoD DDOT&E/LFT “Art Stein Memorial Cup for Excellence”
2001 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) “Combat Survivability Lifetime Achievement Award”
2007 AIAA “Summerfield Book Award”

BOARDS/MEMBERSHIPS:

Fellow (1993) AIAA
Chairman, Survivability Technical Committee, AIAA 1989–1992
Chairman of the National Research Council’s Committee on Weapons Effects on Airborne Systems, May 1991 to November 1992,
Member NDIA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Book: Robert E. Ball,The Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability Analysis and Design, AIAA, 1985
Book: Robert E. Ball, The Fundamentals of Aircraft Combat Survivability Analysis and Design, Second Edition, AIAA, 2003

KEYWORDS/TECHNOLOGIES:

Keywords: Air Vehicles, Aircraft, Survivability, Vulnerability, Susceptibility, Modeling, Simulation, Measures of Effectiveness, Lethality

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