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Dr. Gerald Karr
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Dr. Karr is currently Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Since 1992, Dr. Karr has also served as the UAH Campus Director of the Alabama Space Grant Consortium (ASGC). Dr. Karr also served as the Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at UAH from 1986 through 1999. Dr. Karr has since 1978 been the University Director of the highly successful NASA Summer Faculty Research Opportunity (NSFRO) program. Dr. Karr has also been an active researcher in the areas of satellite drag, high energy lasers, cryogenics, spacecraft thermal design, and computational fluid mechanics. Dr. Karr earned his BS (1964), MS (1966), and PhD (1969) in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. For recreation, Dr. Karr enjoys golf, running, sailing, visiting with his children and grandsons.
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