Mon, Dec 21, 2009
Organization Represents Aviation Education To Government,
Industry, And The Public
Kurt Barnhart, professor and head of Kansas State University's
Department of Aviation, has been elected president-elect of the
University Aviation Association. He will serve a one-year term.
The announcement was made at the UAA Fall Education Conference
Awards Banquet in Wichita, KS.
The UAA represents more than 525 members consisting of
educators, students, high schools, two- and four-year collegiate
institutions offering aviation degree programs, and organizations
and industry representatives that support collegiate aviation. The
UAA also serves as the voice of collegiate aviation education to
government, industry organizations and the general public.
Barnhart has an extensive background in aviation, having
worked as a flight instructor, an A & P mechanic, a charter
pilot, an R & D Engineering Test Inspector for Allison Engine
Company, an Aircraft Systems Instructor for American Trans Air, and
prior to coming to Kansas State University, he was an associate
professor in the Aviation Program at Indiana State. Since arriving
at K-State, he has worked to establish the K-State at Salina
Applied Aviation Research Center, which he now directs. This center
has attracted nearly $650,000 in grants to date, including a
$380,240 grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific
Research focused on mission planning for unmanned aerial
vehicles.
Barnhart has published extensively in refereed aviation journals
such as the Collegiate Aviation Review, the Journal of
Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research, the Journal of Air
Transportation and others, and serves as a consulting editor of the
Journal of Air Transportation and the International Journal of
Applied Aviation Studies.
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