If anybody needs a really good teacher of math or engineering, or a really well-qualified engineer, please do let me know. I can't quite afford to retire just yet.
I will add a resume here soonest.
GW
here's the resume 6-24-13:
Contact: Gary W. Johnson, P.E., Ph.D. 6-17-13
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New Formal Education:
B.S.
Aerospace Engineering University
of Texas at Austin 1972
(major: aerothermodynamics & propulsion)
M.S.
Aerospace Engineering University of Texas Austin
(high-speed aerodynamics; math minor)
Ph.D.
General Engineering Kennedy-Western
University 2000
(study
field: manufacturing & production)(dissert.: alternative fuels in piston aircraft)
Continuing Education:
Laser
Technology cont.-ed. course company-sponsored
education at TSTC 1978
Scramjet Propulsion Short Course AIAA-sponsored
training at UCLA 1987Beech B-90 systems training Worldwide Aviation Training 1998
Fire sprinkler professional training National Fire Protection Association 2000
Certifications:
Professional Engineer State of Texas # 46233 1979
Fire Sprinkler RME “general” State of
NIASE Certified Mechanic engine diagnosis and engine perf. 1996-01
State of Texas Certified Educator SBEC, Secondary (8-12) Math 2003-09
Patents:
Fuel
Injector for Ducted Rocket Ramjet Motor (assigned to employer) US 4,416,112 1981
Eradication
Implement for Controlling Prickly Pear Cactus (self-held) US 6,722,446 2004
Consulting
Experience:
Private consultant in aerospace, automotive, mechanical, energy, and manufacturing, since 1991. Offering services in air, land, and sea vehicle design, test, and modification. Equipment and process design. Management and project control. Structural design and analysis, plus in-the-field evaluations of structures and buildings. Aircraft STC experience with FAA. Alternative fuels and energy, experimenting with owner conversion of gasoline-only vehicles to E-85 ethanol operation, and routine operation of unmodified engines on E-35 blends. Mechanical cactus eradication processes, including business activity building and selling cactus eradication implements. One of the US’s last living all-around experts in all aspects of ramjet propulsion. Invented and offered to NASA a simple and practical means of crew escape for Space Shuttle ascent and re-entry accidents.
Aerospace/Defense Industrial Engineering Experience:
16 years with a missile
propulsion manufacturing concern,
working with rockets (Sidewinder,
Sparrow/Shrike, Phoenix, AIM-120, and more), ramjets (VFDR-PTV, ASALM-PTV,
AAAM, and more), air turborockets , and pulse detonation engines. Managed plant IR&D program for 5
years, comprising 10-20 projects and
investigators, funded at $1-2 million
annually. Technical lead in airbreathing
propulsion research, design, test,
and evaluation for 15 of those 16 years.
Developed cycle analyses, testing
protocols, and facility design updates
for airbreathing test. 16 years of
ground test experience in both rocket and ramjet work. Program manager for two funded contracts
(SFDR and UFDR). Technical lead for
foreign technology exploitation of the SA-6 airbreathing sustainer (a ducted
rocket ramjet, Project Group Work).
3 years with a decoy
and deception equipment manufacturer,
working flares, chaff, and multiple types of advanced towed and free
flight decoys, for both aircraft and
ICBM re-entry application. Technical
lead for design and demonstration of an infrared towed decoy powered by
fuel-air combustion. Technical lead for
deployment dynamics of various items (two towed ribbon radar decoy still-classified
applications, one towed hard-body radar
decoy TAAED, and one forward-fired
free-flying hardbody radar decoy FFAED).
In-plant expert for anything propulsive (including a decoy rocket for
use with Stinger missiles in Afghanistan, for the CIA).
Ground test experience of
multiple types (including freejet tests of ram-air powered combustors), and flight test experience in jet aircraft
with towed decoys of all types.
Summer tour as a graduate
student with an aircraft/missile prime manufacturer, working in the satellite launch business with
the “Scout” vehicle. Advanced
configuration studies and advanced mission analysis, plus orbital mechanics support for launch
customers. Demonstrated feasibility by
analysis of a dual launch ICBM chase mission that was later flown.
Civilian Industrial Engineering Experience:
3 years in commercial
construction and environmental work for two firms. Residential and commercial foundation design
for highly expansive clays. Superstructure
evaluations for integrity, primarily
foundation-related. Septic system
design-to-code. Cleanup and disposal of
very hazardous materials.
Air/water/waste permitting. Fire
sprinkler system design-to-code and construction oversight, including piping and supports, pumps,
supplies, and underground water
mains.
Teaching Experience:
2007-2013: full-time professor
of mathematics for Texas State Technical College (TSTC), in Waco.
Courses include college algebra,
college trigonometry,
intermediate algebra, and technical
algebra (with a little trig). Tutoring
and mentoring students with their courses and their projects.
Since 2003: part-time adjunct professor
of engineering for McLennan Community College (MCC), evening courses. Courses include Introduction to
Engineering, Statics, Dynamics,
Graphics, and Basic
Circuits.
2003-2007 public education
for two Texas high schools. Taught
secondary math, grades 8-12, plus one 7th-grade math
course. Secondary math courses include
Algebra-1, Algebra-2, Geometry,
Pre-calculus & Trigonometry.
Served as school anchor / instructor for dual credit college courses in
College Algebra, College
Trigonometry, and Calculus 1.
1997-1999 split position
lecturer/research associate for Baylor University in Waco, Texas,
in Aviation Sciences department.
Taught courses aerodynamics,
aircraft systems, aviation safety, and airport management to commercial pilot
candidates, and filled-in teaching Calculus
1, 2, or 3. Conducted contract
engineering research into alternative fuels for both piston and turbine
engines, including both ground testing
and flight testing, plus safety
engineering.
1996-1997 associate professor
of engineering technology (sabbatical replacement) for Minnesota State
University, department of automotive and
manufacturing engineering technology.
Taught all the design analysis and composite materials courses for
4-year technology degrees in these areas (including labs), plus served on accreditation committee and
semester conversion curriculum committee.
Informal experience in
industry: over many years, taught many young engineers on-the-job the
essentials of ramjet work, flow
visualization, dynamical simulations
with convenient models, interior
ballistics, and safety engineering. Some of these topics were of a classified
nature and substantially ahead of the open literature available in higher
education.
Some Selected Areas
of Expertise in Which Consulting is Offered:
Any aspect of ramjet propulsion (internal & external
aero, materials, heating,
structural, inlets, flameholders,
etc.)
Eradication of prickly pear cactus from farm and
ranch pastures by mechanical processes.Conversion and testing of road vehicles and aircraft to alternative fuels.
Mechanical / structural design of components and equipment, in unusual / harsh environments.
Combustion, fuels, & propellants: high-intensity flameholding / ignition; analysis, design, and test.
Design and test with many different fuels, propellants, explosives, and other hazardous materials.
Signature production, detection, reduction, and deception: infrared, optical, and some radar.
Aerodynamics, heat transfer, & materials: analysis and experiment from 5 mph to Mach 5, analysis to Mach 25+
Vehicle configuration, motion, modification, and performance: analysis, design, and test; land/sea/air applications.
Residential and commercial buildings: foundation and superstructure structural evaluations.
Space vehicle crew escape concepts for retrofits or new designs.
