CHARLES E. HALL, JR.
Associate Professor

Education
Ph.D., Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, Ohio State University,1986
M.S., Physics, Ohio State University, 1983
B.S., Physics, Xavier University, 1980

Research Interests
Flight dynamics & control; Nonlinear control theory; RPV system design & flight testing

Professional Experience
July 1996-present. Associate Professor. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Car- olina State University.

July 1990-June 1996. Assistant Professor. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University.

June-August 1993 and May-August 1992. Participant AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Program. Control System Development Branch, Wright Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.

June-August 1991. Participant NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Research Program. Aircraft Guidance and Control Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.

November 1986 to June 1990. Research Physicist. Captain, U.S.Army. Research Directorate, Research, Development and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL.

June-November 1986. Student. First Lieutenant, U.S. Army. Ordnance Missile Material Officer Basic Course, Ordnance Missile Munition Center and School, Redstone Arsenal, AL.

March-June 1986. Teaching Assistant. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

June 1983-March 1986. Reseach Assistant. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.

June 1980-June 1980. Teaching Assistant. Department of Physics, The Ohio State Univer- sity, Columbus, OH 43210.

May 1977-May 1980. Astronomical Observatory Laboratory Assistant. Department of Physics, Xavier University, OH 45207

Professional Societies
Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Member. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Member, International Society of Computer Applications

Member, Society of Flight Test Engineers (applied for)

Selected Publications
Hall, C. E. Jr.. "A Hybrid Analog-Digital Integrator for an Analog to Digital Converter Using a Precision Voltage to Frequency Converter", Submitted to the International Journal of Electronics, Dec. 96.

Hall, C. E. Jr.. "Noninertially Scaled Flight Testing Using Remotely Piloted Vehicles", Sub- mitted to the Journal of Aircraft, Dec. 96. Declined for publication. This paper will be resubmitted with flight test data as was strongly requested by the reviewers.

Fontenrose, P. L. and Hall, C. E., "Development and Flight Testing of a QFT Pitch Rate Stability Augmentation System," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Sept-Oct 96, pp1109-1115.

Fontenrose, P. L. and Hall, C. E., "Implementation of a Quantitative Feedback Theory Control System on a Torsional Pendulum," Submitted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology, Oct. 95.

Thomas, J. W. and Hall, C. E., "Instrumentation Analysis using Parameter Estimation of Simulated Data," Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Sept-Oct 96, pp1191-1193.

Phillips, R. A. and Hall, C. E., "Development of a CAD Determined Model Following Flight Control System," Submitted for publication in Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, May 95. This paper is undergoing a major rewrite and resubmission.

Perkins, J. N., Vess, R. J. and Hall, C. E. Jr., "Student, Design, Construction, and Flight Testing of Stability Augmented RPV's", Solicited paper, in press, Internation Journal of Engineering Education.

Dudel, H. P., Hall, C. E. Jr., and Lehnigk, S. H., "Parameter Estimation Algorithms for the Hyper-Gamma Distribution Class" Communications in Statistics, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 1135- 1153, 1989.

Hall, C. E. Jr. and Lehnigh, S. H., "An Extreme Value Type I Distribution, Moment and Maximum Likelihood Estimation", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1991.

Hall, C. E. Jr,, "Identifcation of the Short Period Mode for a 17.5% Scale F/A-18E Remotely Piloted Vehicle", To be submitted to the Journal of Aircraft, May 97.

Hall, C. E. Jr., "A Flight Computer System Based on the DS87C520 High Speed Micropro- cessor", This is an expanded version of the conference paper listed below. This will be ready in June 97, International Society for Computers and Their Applications submission.

Hall, C. E., "An Avionics Suite for Data Collection On Board RPV's and Post-Flight Anal- ysis", In preparation, to be submitted to Journal of Aircraft, June 1997, completion of the paper is dependent on the redesign of the avionics package for the third series of flights of the F/A-18E/F RPV.