January 23-31, 2012 at Binghatmon University Binghamton, New York
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Frank M. Cardullo is the technical coordinator for all Watson School simulation short courses. He is also a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Professor Cardullo is very active in simulation research and serves as a consultant for many aerospace companies and U.S. government agencies.
Olen Atkins is Wegmann USA's Training and Simulation Program Manager. He was the Operations Manager for the Army's SE Core Database-Virtual Environment Development (DVED) Program, the Geo-Spatial Synthetic Environment Manager at Link Simulation and Training, Arlington TX, and the Program Engineering Manager at Diamond Visionics, Binghamton NY, as well as the Visual Simulation System Manager for MarineSafety, Queens, NY. During his past 14 years he has been involved in numerous technical areas of visual simulation including: ship handling, fixed and rotary wing aircraft, ground troops and vehicles, UAVs and medical trainers, implementing image generators, geo-spatial databases, and sensor simulations. Through these experiences he has acquired a breadth and depth of the visual simulation discipline that covers topics ranging from systems engineering to project management to individual tool user.
James L. Davis is currently an Independent Consultant. His career began after graduating with a PhD in EE from MIT and joining Rediffusion Simulation, at one time the leading manufacturer of commercial flight simulators. After 10 years shared between the Texas and U.K. offices, he moved to Atlanta as a Vice President of IVEX Corp., a computer image generator manufacturer. Later, he spent five years as an entrepreneur and independent consultant to the simulation and location-based entertainment industries, which lead to a position with Lockheed Martin (Manassas, VA) in support of the Navy's upgrade program for H-60 trainers. After a brief stint as VP Engineering and CTO for avionics company FreeFlight Systems, he returned to independent consulting.
Valerie Gawron is the human systems integrator at MITRE. She has designed and evaluated training systems for over thirty years. Specifically, she helped design the training curriculum and materials for the Navy's VTXTS training aircraft. She also co-authored a book chapter describing training systems. She led the writing of an overview of threats and their countermeasures for training deployed Air Force personnel. She has also evaluated training systems for all the airport inspection systems currently used in the United States. She led the specification of an Immersive Understanding Virtual Realty system to train commanders in cultural awareness. She provided short courses in situational awareness measurement at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Naval Test Pilot School, the Naval Air Warfare Center, various conferences, and sites in Europe and U.S. She has over 370 publications including the second edition of her book, “Human Performance, Workload, and Situational Awareness Measures Handbook” published in March 2008. Dr. Gawron is a Fellow in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a Fellow in the International Ergonomics Association, and an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She has been a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the Army Science Board and has served on three National Research Council Committees . Dr Gawron received her BA degree from State University College at Buffalo, her MA from the State University College at Geneseo, and her Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology from the University of Illinois. In addition Dr. Gawron earned a MS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA, both from SUNY, Buffalo.
R. Thomas Galloway began his career in aeronautical engineering at Patuxent River, MD, as a flight test engineer in 1969. In the early 1970's, hebecame involved with testing the flight fidelity of military pilot training simulators and subsequently took on a leadership role in establishing improved validation methods for Navy flight simulators through the application of aircraft flight test technology. He founded and led the Aerodynamics Group at NAVAIR Orlando Training Systems Division which investigates flight simulation requirements and effective validation methods for both rotary wing and fixed wing pilot training simulators. Mr. Galloway has consulted with the FAA and other military services on flight fidelity validation issues, and continues to provide technical consulting services in this area of expertise. Mr. Galloway holds a BSAE from Georgia Institute of Technology, an MSAE from Princeton University, and is an engineering graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School (Class '57).
David R. Gingras is the Vice President of Engineering with Bihrle Applied Research Inc. (BAR) in Hampton, VA, with over 20 years of experience in the aeronautics industry. His primary responsibilities are commercial simulation products development and simulation flight model development and validation for military and civilian flight vehicles. Mr. Gingras has expertise in areas of wind-tunnel testing; flight-test data analysis, parameter identification, and flight model development. He has played a key role in developing a number of engineering and training flight models for aircraft including, the AV-8BII+, F/A-18, and F-16 in addition to several civilian configurations and gaming applications. Mr. Gingras earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University and a Master of Science in Aeronautics from The George Washington University’s Joint Institute for the Advancement of Flight Sciences (JIAFS), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. He is an AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee Member as well as an active participant in the Royal Aeronautical Society sponsored International Committee for Aviation Training in Extended Envelopes (ICATEE).
Timothy M. Keeter is a Principal Engineer and manager of the Missile and Manned Aviation Department at Dynetics, Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama. Mr. Keeter earned a bachelors in aerospace engineering from Auburn University and a master of science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue University. Since joining Dynetics in 1994, Mr. Keeter has been involved in a wide variety of modeling, simulation, and analysis projects for foreign and domestic missile systems, including SAMs, ASCMs, ATGMs, SRBMs, MRBMs, SLBMs, ARMs, MaRVs, and ASATs. Additionally, he has served as technical lead for implementation of many of these missile simulations in real-time, hardware-in-the-loop, man-in-the-loop, and open-air range environments. Mr. Keeter is also heavily involved with design and testing of advanced weapons concepts for the US Air Force.
Roy W. Latham is the founder and president of Computer Graphics Systems Development Corporation, (CGSD Corp.), a Mountain View, California-based systems integration firm specializing in simulation technology. He served as editor and publisher of the professional newsletter Real Time Graphics for 12 years. Previously, he managed graphics and imaging system projects at Link Flight Simulation's Advanced Products Operation, Kaiser Aerospace, and Sun Microsystems.
Katherine L. Morse is a member of the senior professional staff in the Simulation Software Engineering Section of the Modeling and Simulation Group in the National Security Analysis Department (NSAD) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The 130-person NSAD conducts analyses that enable government sponsors to make informed decisions, principally at the enterprise and architecture level, regarding critical national security issues. Dr. Morse performs research in modeling and simulation, HLA federation design and development, and project development.
Dr. Morse has over twenty five years' programming, software engineering, security engineering, and computer science experience:
Dr. Morse was a key contributor to the development of the DoD and IEEE standards for the High Level Architecture for Modeling and Simulation. She has also been a contributor to the Federation Development and Execution Process from its early development. She has pioneered several technologies in web-enabled simulation including web-enabled HLA and integration of web-based simulation content with HLA federations.
Dr. Morse holds a B.S in mathematics (cum laude), a B.A. in Russian (cum laude), and an M.S. in computer science from the University of Arizona. She also holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Dobro Slovo, the national Slavic languages honorary. Dr. Morse is an internationally recognized expert in distributed modeling & simulation who speaks frequently at conferences and is active in professional activities, serving on the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activities Board, and the SISO Standards Activity Committee, Conference Committee, Executive Committee, Board of Directors and forum planning committees. She serves as the distributed simulation area editor for ACM TOMACS and has served on the conference committees of several M&S conferences. She has more than 50 publications and regularly gives tutorials. She is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. She is the 2007 winner of the IEEE Hans Karlsson Award for leadership and achievement through collaboration in standards development.
Paul A. Ray is the founder and President of Parmel, Ltd., a firm specializing in simulator training systems. He was manager of the Federal Aviation Administration's National Simulator Program (NSPM) from 1993 until his retirement in 2001. He was responsible for implementation of FAA simulator standards and the oversight of over 500 flight simulators and flight training devices. He was responsible for the development and implementation of bilateral simulator agreements with the UK, Switzerland and Canada.
James R. Takats is Co-founder and President of OPINICUS Corporation, a Fixed-wing and Rotary-wing FSTD Manufacturer, headquartered in Lutz (Tampa), Florida. For 29 years, Mr. Takats has been involved in the design and implementation of innovative hardware and software for dynamic, closed loop control systems for Flight Simulators, where he has worked as an engineer in the areas of Control Loading, Motion Cueing, Fly-By-Wire Flight Controls, Autoflight Guidance Systems, and Advanced Avionics Systems.
During the past several years, Jim has been involved in various Simulation and Training associations and Working Groups and is a member of the ICFQ (International Committee for FSTD Qualification).
Mr. Takats holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering (B.E.E.E.) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Prior to founding OPINICUS in 1988, Mr. Takats worked on engineering staffs at CAE, Reflectone, and Singer Link.
