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Mr. Jackson's areas of expertise include machine dynamics, automatic transmissions and controls, accident reconstruction, and vehicle performance including analysis of automotive engineering issues of passenger, commercial, agricultural, and military vehicles and their components. He is skilled in non-destructive testing, data acquisition, spatial analysis, and instrumentation. His consulting experience includes accident reconstruction, vehicle testing, machine dynamics, intellectual property analysis, and computer simulations of complex mechanisms. Additionally, Mr. Jackson is adept at visual presentation of scientific concepts and the applications of computer animation and digital video. He is also an accomplished computing systems expert, software programmer, and computer hardware integrator.
Jackson GW, Henry AC. Visual communication of engineering and scientific data in the courtroom. OE/Fibers ‘92, September 1992. Jackson GW, Henry AC, McMillan DG. Application of Wavefront software in the simulator and real-time visual simulation market. Applied Visual Computing Technical Report, Los Angeles, CA, December 1990. Jackson GW. Soldier/machine interaction dynamics via TACOM’s motion base simulators. American Association for the Advancement of Science 1990 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 1990. Jackson GW, Zywiol Jr. H. Motion base simulator control via analytical based motion prediction. Proceedings, Army Science Conference, Ft. Monroe, VA, October 1988. Jackson GW. Dynamic simulation in military vehicle development. Regional Applied Dynamics International Users Society for Central/Northeastern Areas, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1987. Jackson GW. TACOM’s animation of simulation capability. Invited presentation to Technical Management Committee of the NATO Reference Mobility Model, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, June 1986. Jackson GW. Animation, an insight to simulation. North American Meeting of the International Society for Terrain Vehicle Systems Conference, Tucson, AZ, February 1986. Jackson GW, Ricketts MK. Interfacing CAD to Dynamic Simulation and Analysis. CAD/CAM, Robotics and Automation Conference, Tucson, AZ, February 1985. Beck RR, Jackson GW. Dynamics and controls in design and development. Institute of Environmental Sciences, May 1984. Haug EJ, Jackson GW, Beck RR. Computer aided analysis of large scale, constrained, mechanical systems. 4th Meeting of Coordinating Group on Modern Control Theory, Rochester, Michigan, October 1981.
- Vice President and Co-Founder, Animated Technologies, Inc., 1990
- Research Experimental Engineer, Systems Simulation & Technology Division, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command, 1987–1990
- Deputy Director, U.S. Army Captain, Systems Simulation & Technology Division, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command, 1985–1986
- Deputy Director, U.S. Army First Lieutenant & Captain, Survivability Research Division, U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command, 1983–1985
- Commander, U.S. Army Reserve Center, Muscatine, Iowa, 1981–1982
- Society of Automotive Engineers
- Engineering Society of Detroit
- Association for Computing Machinery—SIGGRAPH
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- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1982
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1981
- Pi Tau Sigma
- U.S. Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service Medal, U.S. Army Meritorious Service Medal, U.S. Army Commendation Medal; U.S. Army Achievement Medal; U.S. Army Humanitarian Service Medal
- District Governor, July 2006–June 2007, Rotary International District 6380, Southeastern Michigan, USA and Southwestern Ontario, Canada
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Alabama, #28057
- Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer, Arizona, #45493
- Registered Professional Engineer, Arkansas, #12648
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Illinois, #062.059627
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Iowa, #17739
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Michigan, #52564
- Licensed Professional Engineer, New York, #084631
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Texas, #99689
Patent 4,689,998: Wheeled Vehicle Test Fixture Connector, September 1987 (with D.S. Rohweder).
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