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Dr. Bruce A. Conway, Department Chair

Dr. Conway retired from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia after 37 years with the agency. At NASA he held positions ranging from research engineer working on advanced spacecraft control system research to service as Chief of the Instrument Research Division at NASA-Langley. In this latter position, he was responsible for sensor and measurement technology research and development in a wide variety of disciplines, including electro-mechanical instrumentation, nondestructive evaluation techniques and instrumentation, thermal instrumentation, nonintrusive gas parameter and optical spectroscopy measurements, photo-optical techniques, and pressure measurement instrumentation.

Prior to this, he served as Assistant Chief of the Flight Electronics Division at NASA-Langley, where he managed electronics and instrumentation research and applications to spacecraft and aircraft flight experiments. In the early 1970's he served as a Principal Investigator and project engineer for a Skylab space flight astronaut-manned experiment (Experiment T-013) to assess disturbances to spacecraft control systems from onboard crew movements. He has authored or co-authored more than 25 technical reports and conference papers on a wide variety of aerospace engineering and engineering management-related topics.

Dr. Conway currently teaches undergraduate courses in mathematics and statistics, and graduate courses in aeronautical sciences (aircraft and spacecraft development, research methods, and R and D management).

He serves on Graduate Research Project Review Committees (as both Member and Chair), covering a broad range of aeronautical science- and engineering-related topics. He also teaches at Embry-Riddle Resident Centers at RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall in the U.K.

Dr. Conway received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1965, an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from George Washington University in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management from Old Dominion University in 2003.

He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and is a member of the American Society for Engineering Management.

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