Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE)

I am a multidisciplinary Engineer with professional experiences developing scientific software and custom robotic/electronic solutions. My academic research interests are primarily focused on UAS-based atmospheric measurements, particularly in support of aviation weather. Such efforts resulted in a U.S. patent, a textbook chapter, and multiple peer-reviewed journal papers.

Research Interests:

Unmanned systems, instrumentation, calibration and validation, experiment design, atmospheric measurements, phased array radars, embedded systems, systems integration, and problem-basedlearning.

Teira Cole was raised in Lawton, Oklahoma. Upon graduating from MacArthur High School, she joined the U.S. Army as a Combat Army Medic. As a non-traditional college student, she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Education Magna Cum Laude and continued to Grad School where she obtained a Master of Education-Adult and Career Education Summa Cum Laude, from Valdosta State University. After college, Ms. Cole began her career in economic development as a Workforce Development Coordinator and Project Manager. Near the end of 2018, her family moved to Oklahoma where she transitioned into the role of Project Manager at the Lawton Economic Development Corporation where she oversaw the FISTA project. In January 2021, Ms. Cole accepted the offer to continue working with the FISTA Development Trust Authority as the Strategic Operations Manager. Her greatest achievements during her time at the FISTA were completing Phase 1 with a budget of $45 million and recruiting defense contractors to FISTA to fill the initial 105,000 square feet.

Ms. Cole currently serves as the Leadership Oklahoma Class 35 Ambassador and the President of the Association of the United States Army Fires Chapter. She previously served as the FISTA Recording Secretary, Fires Patriot Government Relations Committee member, AUSA FIRES Chapter Secretary, Lawton Business Women Government Affairs Committee Chair and served on the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission Emerging Aviation Technology Sub-Committee. In 2021, she was nominated for 12:10 To the Top and in 2023 was recognized as a STEM Champion in the Lawton, Oklahoma community.

Dr. Paul Elliott is a Research Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Department at Oklahoma State University. He has also been an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York where he was selected as the Instructor of the Year in 2020, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UConn where he received a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fellowship, a MS from University of Dayton in renewable and clean energy engineering, and a BS in mechanical engineering from Harding University. His work with NASA includes the design and construction of a rover experiment platform for the detection of methane over large distances on the Martian surface, and the construction of an experimental package that flew on a sounding rocket to an altitude of 41 miles. His areas of research include low stress ceramic to metal bonding, metal 3D printing and low temperature casting, non-toxic amalgams and metal matrix composites, and vehicle and motor design for high powered rocketry.

• Jamey Jacob is the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, Williams Chair in Energy Technology at OSU Tulsa, and Regents Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He has approximately $50M in funded research projects as PI and Co-PI from government and industry including AFOSR, AFRL, DOD, DOE, DARPA, FAA, NASA, NSF, SOCOM, USN, Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, and Toyota, among others. He is currently PI on the EDA funded LaunchPad and UAS Flight Corridor programs, OSU lead for the Tulsa Hub for Ethical and Trustworthy Autonomy Tech Hub, the NASA University Leadership Initiative program WINDMAP to develop aviation weather solutions for advanced aerial mobility applications, including drones and urban air taxis, and a NIST effort on the Development of Test Certification Standards for AAM Platforms. He also leads the DoD sponsored Counter-UAS Center of Excellence. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1990 and his M.S and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was a National Research Council Summer Faculty Fellow in the Air Force Research Laboratory and Fulbright Specialist. He received the SAE Ralph Teetor Award, the Lockheed Martin Teaching Award, and the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, among other teaching and mentoring awards. He is a native Oklahoman and dedicates much of his efforts to education and STEM workforce development. He is a Part 107 UAS pilot with approximately 500 hours operating various platforms.
  
  Research Interests:
  
  Emerging aerospace technology, robotic exploration, uncrewed aircraft, weather, aerodynamics and flow control, ad infinitum.