Gerald Seidel

Gerald (Jerry) Seidel is a Faculty Research Advisor at CALCE. Mr. Seidel has a BS and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State University, plus advanced studies in Engineering Mechanics and Mathematical Optimization at Case Western Reserve University. He retired from NASA Headquarters after 45 years of Federal Civil Service. At NASA HQ he worked for the Office of Aeronautics, where he managed aircraft structures research and coordinated partnership activities with the U.S. Armed Services. Prior to joining NASA, he was the Principal Engineer for Advanced Structural Technologies with the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), and before that he held various engineering positions at the U.S. Naval Air Development Center (NADC).

At NADC, he performed structural service life analysis and tracking on Navy aircraft, including flight recorder data collection and analysis of F-14 aircraft operating from aircraft carriers. He was also involved with counting accelerometers on tactical aircraft and photographic landing loads surveys for design criteria specification. At NAVAIR, he investigated various vehicle health and life monitoring technologies, including vibration signature monitoring of helicopters and the development of Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS). He also sponsored work with fatigue life gages, acoustic emissions, and a fiber-optic crack sensor. At NASA HQ, he represented the U.S. on international technical cooperation groups and represented NASA on inter-government committees, including the Joint Logistics Commanders Group, an Aging Aircraft study group, and an inter-agency committee investigating reliability and life issues of electrical wiring.

Room 1100 Engineering Lab Building (Building 89)
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: (301) 405-5331
Fax: (301) 314-9269
gseidel@calce.umd.edu