Turner, James D. Director Of Operations, Cass Telephone: (979) 458-1429 Fax: (979) 845-6051 Email: turner@aero.tamu.edu Webpage: Mailing Address Texas A&M University Department of Aerospace Engineering 745 H H.R. Bright Building 3141 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3141

Education

Ph.D. VPI&SU, 1980, Engineering Science and Mechanics

M.E. UVA, 1976, Engineering Physics

B.S. George Mason, 1974, Physics

Areas of Interest

Dynamics and Control of Mechanical and Aerospace Systems. Numerical methods including: Automatic Differentiation, Optimization, Multibody Dynamics, Constrained Motion Problems, Multi-Physics domain applications, Matrix and tensor calculus, Generalized Newton Methods, Optimal Control, Computational Chemistry.