You're invited to attend
AE Seminar
Bringing 30 Years of Industry Experience to the Classroom
featuring
Chance McColl
Tuesday, September 3
2:30 - 3:15PM
Montgomery Knight -317
About the Seminar:
In this talk, Dr. Chance McColl shares his experience as a working engineer in the aviation industry over the past 30 years. He expands on his background in aircraft external loads, aircraft structures, and structural fatigue life tracking for fixed wing, rotary wing, and autonomous aircraft. He shares how, since 2015 he has worked to bring this experience to the classroom, providing examples and insight into the methods, tools, and technologies used by working engineers in the fields of aircraft structural design, usage/flight data monitoring, and structural fatigue life assessment and management. Dr. McColl’s experience provides opportunities for student mentorship and career guidance, as well as guest lectures from government and industry, helping students bridge the gap between textbook and application.
About the Speaker:
Dr. McColl is a part-time Lecturer at Georgia Tech (2015-present) while also working in the aerospace industry full-time. With over 30 years’ experience as an aircraft loads engineer, Dr. McColl serves as Vice President for TDA (Technical Data Analysis, Inc.; VA, MD, and GA) and oversees TDA’s loads engineering (fixed wing, rotary wing, UAS) and aircraft structural fatigue life tracking application development for US military (USN, US Army, USAF) and government (NASA, NOAA), international (Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Korea) and industry (Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin). Dr. McColl has been with TDA since 2001. Prior to that, he was a lead aircraft loads engineer, both at Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Since 2004, Dr. McColl has developed and taught numerous aircraft external loads and aeroservoelasticity/controls short courses for the US Navy, US Air Force, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and Korean Aerospace Industries.