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Richard D.
Dell Sr.
Mr. Dell spent more than 22 years with IBM starting as a
Field Engineer, then in positions as Instructor, Field
Manager, Program Manager for Strategic Planning
and Large Project Management. Since leaving IBM in 1988,
he founded a consulting company (TGI-USA) to promote
international business development.
Mr. Dell has worked in much of Europe and Eastern Europe
including England, Holland and Czechoslovakia, and in
the Middle East in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait. The
start-up company that he mentored in Slovakia (TGI-Czechoslovakia)
has grown into a retail and financial services company
with annual revenues of more than $100,000,000 USD.
Mr. Dell founded the Advanced Vehicle Research Center
(the AVRC) as a North Carolina company in 2002 and has
continued to develop the Advanced Vehicle Research
Center concept as a research center that ties academic
and industry interests.
The AVRC is now completing a major Department of Energy
contract under the Freedom Car program, National Energy
Technology Labs. The project will develop a new
technology for optimization of ethanol and
ethanol/hydrogen systems in internal combustion engines.
The AVRC is also active in plug-in hybrid technologies,
having converted six vehicles to PHEV.
Mr. Dell attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Md., majoring in Computer Science and Business
Management. He has been a resident of North Carolina
since 1988. He has been an automotive enthusiast, and a
collector and restorer of classic automobiles for more
than 40 years.
Grayson Randall
Grayson Randall is a senior software engineer at IBM.
Grayson has 26 years experience in systems design and
architecture. At IBM, he has worked on projects involved
with manufacturing automation, digital video processing,
set top box designs, as well as network processors for
high speed network communications. He has extensive
experience as lead engineer and provided technical
leadership on large projects that include leading
international teams. He is currently involved in PowerPC
processor development. Grayson's work includes nine
patents, and several publications. Prior to IBM, Grayson
developed commercial and military flight simulators for
5 years. Grayson holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering
from Parks College of St. Louis University.
Grayson is also founder and team leader of Insight
Racing. He was responsible for the overall system design
and architecture of the team's three autonomous vehicle
entries in the DARPA Grand Challenge competition. The
team placed twice in the semi-finals and was a finalist
in 2005. Grayson also mentored a FIRST high school
robotics team for 5 years which won first place in the
2004 international competition as well as numerous other
design awards.
Grayson was awarded the IEEE-USA Citation of Honor in
2006. This national award was for inspiring pre-college
and college engineering students in the area of
robotics. Grayson speaks nationally as part of the IEEE
Computer Society's Distinguished Visitor program.
Grayson also serves as Chairman of the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Chapter for Eastern North Carolina.
Dr. William Edmonson
Dr. William Edmonson, Assoc. Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at NC State University, and
Director of the High Performance Digital Signal
Processing Lab (HiPer DSP Lab). Dr. Edmonson has had
faculty positions at The City College-CUNY, University
of Florida and Hampton University in their Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department since receiving his
Ph.D. from NC State University in 1990. While at UF, Dr.
Edmonson served as faculty advisor for several
Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) projects
from Motorola and Intellion Corporation. The IPPD program
is an innovative educational experience at UF that
allows senior engineering students to utilize the
principles of concurrent design, while working in small
multidisciplinary teams under the guidance of faculty
advisor and industrial liaison engineers, to design and
build authentic industrial products for sponsoring
companies. In that time he has served as a visiting
researcher at Motorola and NASA-Langley performing
research in the areas of digital signal processing (DSP)
hardware and algorithmic development.
In addition, his research includes mapping of DSP
algorithms onto FPGAs or ASICSs, developing global
optimization methods for various DSP and control
applications, computer architecture for DSP, and systems
biology. These research areas have been funded through
NASA, Motorola, DARPA, and Dept. of Education. As a
member of IEEE he has served as Chair of the Hampton
Roads Section and as a reviewer for several of its
technical journals.
Jeff Krukin
Jeff Krukin combined his passions for technology and
space as an IBM Systems Engineer at NASA's Johnson Space
Center. During a 23-year Information Technology career
he specialized in strategic business and technology
planning and implementation, along with technical sales,
marketing, and communication. From January 2005 through
December 2007, Jeff was Executive Director of the Space
Frontier Foundation, the most prominent commercial space
(NewSpace) advocacy organization. Overlapping this
period, beginning in 2004 and continuing today, he has
engaged in various space consulting projects including
the North Carolina Aerospace Economy Project that he
initiated in 2004. He was an author of "The
Aero/Space Economy in North Carolina: A Preliminary
Assessment of Current Performance and Future Prospects",
and a key contributor to North Carolina's Strategic Plan
for Workforce Development in the Aviation and Aerospace
Industries.
His first space article was published in 1981. His
articles and Op-Ed's have appeared on numerous websites
and in publications such as Space News, the Houston
Chronicle, Ad Astra, the Houston Business Journal, and
the Journal for Space Development. His first book essays
were published in Spring 2005 in "Tackling Tomorrow
Today: Moving Along, Far Ahead," part of a book series
written for high school students. NASA and the US Dept.
of Commerce's Office of Space Commercialization have
often requested his participation in their strategic
planning efforts. He is the creator of The Human-Space
Connection concept, serves on the Steering Committee of
the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs,
and remains a Director of the Space Frontier Foundation.
Dr. Andre Mazzoleni
Dr. Andre Mazzoleni is an Assoc. Professor of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at NC State University. His
Education includes a Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, from
the University of Wisconsin, 1992, an M.S., Engineering
Mechanics, University of Wisconsin, 1990, M.A.,
Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1990, and a B.S.,
Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 1983. His
research interests include Dynamics, Vibrations,
Nonlinear Systems, Astronautics, Space Systems Design,
Tethered Satellites, Earth-Based Tethered Systems, Lunar
and Planetary Rovers, Solar Sails, Biologically-Inspired
Autonomous Vehicles and Biomechanics.
Richard D. Dell Jr.
Richard Dell Jr. is a Program Manager for the Advanced
Vehicle Research Center (AVRC). His responsibilities for
the AVRC are numerous, including new media development,
developing grant proposals and servicing the grants once
awarded. Grant work he recently completed for the
Department of Energy was published as a "Hydrogen Mobile
Generation and Storage Unit Design and Build Document"
that can be found at
www.avrc.com/avrlinks.htm
Another grant that Mr. Dell currently maintains is the
Department of Labor (DOL) Economic Development Agency (EDA)
funded Distance Learning Laboratory for automotive
workforce development in alternative fuels. He is also
developing a commercialization program for an Inertial
Electrostatic Confinement Fusion propulsion system, and
a regional commercially-viable Breakthrough Technology
Forum tentatively scheduled to be held at the Institute
for Advanced Learning and Research in Spring 2009.
In early 2006, Mr. Dell and his father started the
Advanced Aerospace Resource Center (AARC), and he serves
on the Management Advisory Board of AARC, which supports
ongoing education, marketing and commercialization
projects in alternative energy, advanced propulsion and
other Aerospace technologies. He also co-authored the
AVRC and NADC-funded "State-wide Aerospace Workforce
Development Strategy" document, now published at
NC Aerospace Workforce Development Strategic Plan
Gordon Jeans
Gordon Jeans has over 10 years experience in all terrain
tracked and wheeled vehicles in harsh environments as
well as normal operations. He is experienced in
computers and computer related equipment and software
dating back to the original IBM XT "green machines". He
was trained as a non-commissioned officer in leadership
and team oriented operations to be able to fill in as
needed anywhere in a hierarchical organization. He is a
dual major, a senior, earning his BS in Electrical
Engineering as well as Computer Engineering.
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