Keith Carter will reflect will on his engineering journey and lessons learned throughout his 38 years of systems engineering development of unmanned air vehicles and large-scale systems engineering efforts for the US Government.   His insights cover leadership, management, engineering successes and failures, the history of systems development and some spectacular programs he has worked on throughout his career such as the X-47B unmanned air vehicle.

Carter has been a Systems Engineer for the Dept of the Navy for the past 20 years. His primary focus for the first 10 of those years was on Unmanned Aviation. Since that time, he has been the Associate Program Executive Officer for Engineering Tactical Aircraft Programs (PEO-T) and then moved into defining Systems of Systems (SoS) Systems Engineering at the Mission capability level. He retired from DOD after 38 years of Government Service in December of 2015 and now provides consulting services in the field of Systems Engineering and DOD Acquisition Engineering expertise.

Carter continues to serve as an advocate for engineering education and helped create the Introduction to Systems Engineering course at Viterbo University.   He regularly participates in Viterbo University’s engineering classrooms via Zoom to lecture and talk with students about his experiences and opportunities in engineering.

Co-sponsored by Viterbo University’s College of Engineering, Letters and Science and the D.B. Reinhart for Ethics in Leadership.

This presentation is free and open to all.  No reservations are required. 

For more information, contact Jill Miller at jmmiller@viterbo.edu or 608-796-3097.