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Hart, Kip

Hart, Kip

Lecturer
Aerospace Engineering
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EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • B.S. with Honors in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Georgia Tech Thank a Teacher Program Award
  • Aviation Week Twenty20s
  • Sigma Gamma Tau Mid-Atlantic Regional Award
  • Maryland Governor's Volunteer Service Citation

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  • Guidance, navigation, and control of reentry vehicles
  • Reentry flight dynamics
  • Microscale thermoelasticity
  • Hypersonic rarefied aerodynamics

  • ENAE202/ENME202: Fundamentals of Computing

Doctorate and Masters Project

Journal Articles

Conference Papers

Technical Reports

  • Braun, R.D., Russell, R.P., Vittaldev, V., Hart, K.A., “Space Catalog Uncertainty Modeling Using High Fidelity Dynamics, Multi-complex Step Derivatives and GPUs,” Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, 2016, pp. 1–19. AFRL-RV-PS-TR-2016-1169.
  • Hart, K.A and Bostroem, K. A., “Characterization of the STIS NUV MAMA vignetting by optical element,” Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, Tech. Rep. TIR 2014-01, 2014, pp. 1–19.

 

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