Bill has 40 years at McDonnell-Douglas Corp. / Boeing in modeling and simulation in St. Louis, and he is a Boeing Technical Fellow.
He works with aeronautical, software, avionics, and networking engineers to use reconfigurable prototype simulators as part of real-time, distributed, networked simulations. He helps put together the capability to allow flight hardware (live), simulated aircraft (virtual), and computer generated (constructive) models to operate on real time distributed networks. He has worked on aircraft and aircraft simulators from the F-4, the AV-8B to the F-15. He serves as a mentor to several engineers at Boeing.
Bill has held several positions for the International Council of Systems Engineering Midwest Gateway Chapter including president, treasurer, and program chairperson. He was the general chair for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Modeling and Simulation Conference, and chairman of the conference’s Technical Committee. He is a member of the NSPE Mentoring Task Force, the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers St. Louis Chapter, Board of Directors, and the PEI. He is also a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a professional engineer.
Education:
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, 1970
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1978
MBA, Maryville University, 1990