{"418201":{"#nid":"418201","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Memorium - Professor William T. Mikolowsky","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe AE School lost a great teacher and colleague with the passing of Professor William T. Mikolowsky on Tuesday, July 24, 2012.\u0026nbsp; As the Professor of the Practice, he touched the lives of many generations of our undergraduate students through his Capstone Senior Design sequence, Intro to AE, and Vehicle Performance classes.\u0026nbsp; His lectures were peppered with inspiring examples from his distinguished career at Lockheed Martin as the Chief Engineer for the C-130J program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mikolowsky had a bachelor, masters and doctorate degree from Georgia Tech in Aerospace Engineering.\u0026nbsp; He also held an MBA from Stanford University.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Mikolowsky retired from Lockheed after 33 years of service where he was known as the \u0022Father of the C130J\u0022.\u0026nbsp; After retiring from Lockheed, he became a Professor at the Georgia Tech School of AE and was the author of many publications, over the course of his career.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mikolowsky was an avid pilot and a civil war buff.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The AE School lost a great teacher and colleague with the passing of Professor William T. Mikolowsky on Tuesday, July 24, 2012."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-06-24 12:40:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:49","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130301","name":"William T. Mikolowsky"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}