Instructor: Kara Greene

Kara Greene
Biography: Kara Greene is a Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineer and a Senior Consultant for Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi) where she specializes in aircraft(airplane and helicopter) accident reconstruction and analysis. Using radar, GPS, ADS-B, aircraft system information, atmospheric data, andgeographical surroundings, Dr. Greene evaluates aircraft performance and puts together a cohesive picture of an accident. She has analyzed dozens ofairplane and helicopter accidents following the scientific and forensic engineering method. During her service in the Air Force, Dr. Greene was anevaluator and instructor pilot in the C-17A (Boeing Globemaster), an instructor in the T-53 (Diamond DA-40), T-52 (Cirrus SR-20), and T-41 (Cessna172), and a pilot in the T-37 (Cessna Tweet) and T-1 (Beech Jayhawk) with a total of over 3,500 hours including combat and Night Vision Goggle (NVG)time. While at the Air Force Academy, she taught courses in aeronautics, experimental methods, a capstone mathematics course, and flight testtechniques including data acquisition in the T-41. Dr. Greene received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, a M.S. inMechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho, a M.A. in Leadership and Counseling from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and aPh.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology

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