Georgia Tech Research Institute aerospace engineer takes Tennessee post

<p>The University of Tennessee has named a well-known aerospace engineer head of its Space Institute.</p><p>Dr. Donald C. Daniel will replace Dr. John E. Caruthers, who is retiring as associate vice president and chief operating officer.</p><p>Daniel is a principal research engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, distinguished research professor with the National Defense University's Center for Technology and National Security Policy and chairman of NATO's Research and Technology Board.</p><p>He's also a former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering and former executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering at the University of Florida.</p><p>"Don Daniel is a world-renowned expert in aerospace engineering who brings diverse, prestigious experience in research and leadership with some of the nation's premier academic and policymaking institutions," UT President John Petersen said in a statement Thursday.</p><p>Daniel will head up efforts to revitalize the graduate-level Space Institute campus in Tullahoma. UTSI's enrollment and federal research funding have been slipping for years, in part because of reduced activity at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center, a major aircraft wind tunnel facility.</p><p>UTSI has been proposed by Gov. Phil Bredesen as the site for a residential math and science high school.</p><p>___</p><p>On the Net:</p><p>HASH(0x1cda044)</p>