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Jerry Petersen co-founded Geneva Aerospace®, where he serves as vice president of engineering. At Geneva, Petersen has gained expertise in real-time embedded systems design, integration and testing for autonomous vehicle systems and has managed UAV system programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research.
Prior to joining Geneva, Petersen worked in the Texas Instruments Defense Systems and Electronics Group, where he was a staff guidance and control engineer. There he developed guidance and control system algorithms, simulation models and embedded real-time flight software for the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) system. Petersen also designed guidance and control algorithms for several JSOW variants and performed aerodynamic and airframe configuration optimizations for the Extended Range Guided Munitions (ERGM) program. His work at TI also involved support of several missile flight test programs, along with support of several subsonic, transonic and supersonic wind tunnel tests.
Petersen earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, as well as a master's degree in engineering with special emphasis in advanced control theories, from Texas A&M University. | 