Jamey D Jacob
Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0002-3376-503X (opens in a new tab)
- ProfessorMechanical & Aerospace Engineering
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BIO & RESEARCH INTERESTs
- 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.
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS
- ProfessorOklahoma State University, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States2011 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Institute Executive DirectorOklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education, USA2022 - present
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- President, USA-OK (OK AUVSI Chapter)Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, United States2019 - present
DEGREES
- Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States1995
- MS, Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley, United States1992
- Bachelor of Science, Aerospace EngineeringUniversity of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States1990
FACULTY/STAFF OR STUDENT
- Faculty/Staff
CAMPUS
- Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
DEPARTMENT
- Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering