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Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
M. J. Thompson Regents Professor

Education: Ph.D., Rice University

Office Location: W.R. Woolrich Laboratories (WRW)
Room 408C - Mail Code: C0600

Phone: (512) 471-4908

Email: dghull@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

• Analytical Methods in Optimal Control Theory
• Numerical Methods for Optimization
• Optimal Aircraft Trajectories

Dr. Hull's research focuses on the application of flight mechanics and optimization to the determination of optimal trajectories and optimal guidance laws for aerospace vehicles. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1966. He has five years of industrial experience and has published more than 100 technical articles and reports.

Dr. Hull also serves as the ASE Graduate Advisor.

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