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Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Joe J. King Professorship in Engineering

Education: Ph.D., Rice University

Office Location: W.R. Woolrich Laboratories (WRW)
Room 318B - Mail Code: C0600

Address:
210 E. 24th St, WRW 318B
1 University Station, C0600
Austin, TX 78712-0235

Phone: (512) 471-8176

Email: rhbishop@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

• Navigation of Aerospace Vehicles
• Attitude Dynamics, Estimation, and Control
• Autonomous Systems

Dr. Bishop specializes in guidance, navigation and control of aerospace vehicles. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1990. He has 10 years of industrial experience and has published numerous journal articles and three books. He was the recipient of the 1997 Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award, the 1999 John Leland Atwood Award, and was elected to The UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2002. Dr. Bishop was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2007.