Gender

Male

Location

Tacoma, WA

About Me:

Doctor (Col Ret) Jerry LeMieux is the Executive Director and Founder of Unmanned Vehicle University International. The University's primary focus area is on Unmanned Systems education and training. Doctor LeMeiux is an engineering PhD and pilot with over 40 years and 10,000 hours of aviation experience. With a BS on Electrical Engineering, Doctor LeMieux joined the USAF as a ROTC distinguished graduate. He is a Senior Pilot with over 2500 hours as a combat ready fighter pilot, instructor pilot and commander. While on active duty, Doctor LeMieux simultaneously completed the Masters and PhD degrees both ground based and airborne UAS Sense & Avoid (SAA) systems. He is a co-author in Electrical Engineering. Doctor LeMieux has over 20 years of experience in program management, systems engineering and test and evaluation for AEW, fighter and tactical data link acquisition programs. He has experience with research, development, technology transfer, integration and flight test and evaluation. He has consulted on numerous airspace issues for the US Federal Aviation Administration, Air Force, Army, Navy, NASA, DARPA and all major defense contractors. Doctor LeMieux is currently working with the FAA sponsored RTCA Special Committee 203 on legislative and airspace issues related to integrating unmanned air systems into US National Airspace. He is a National Expert and has authored a technical paper with the FAA on worldwide spectrum requirements for all US unmanned aircraft (to be presented by the FAA and at the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2012). He has recently contributed to the first FAA Certificate of Authority for a US Army UAS using a ground based SAA solution. Doctor LeMieux has over 20 years of course development and teaching experience at major Universities and Aviation Schools including; Boston University, University of Maryland, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Daniel Webster College. He has taught aeronautical, mechanical and electrical engineering and advanced mathematics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Doctor LeMieux holds the Airline Transport License and was an airline pilot for Delta Air Lines for over 20 years. He has over 10,000 hours of flying experience with both domestic and international operations. For over 10 years he was the Executive Safety Chairman for the Airline Pilots Association in Washington DC where he was responsible for resolving airline safety issues US National airports AFFILIATIONS RTCA Special Committee 203 UAS Panel Expert Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Session Chair, International Conference on Embedded Systems and Intelligent Technology (2011) Session Chair, IEEE National and Intnl Radar Conferences Senior Member of the IEEE Reserve Officers Association (Life) Dandelions, Air Force Association (Life) Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Engineering Tau Beta Pi (Honorary Engineering Society) Eta Kappa Nu (Honorary Electrical Engineering Society) Kappa Mu Epsilon (Honorary Mathematics Society) . .

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Unmanned Education. For sample course content at Unmanned Vehicle University see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alKGFtZC48U&feature=youtu.be

Hometown:

Fond du Lac