Dewey H. Hodges, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, Georgia

A native of Clarksville, Tennessee, Dr. Hodges received the Bachelor of Science (with high honors) in Aerospace Engineering in June 1969 from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He received the Master of Science in June 1970 and the Doctor of Philosophy in January 1973, both in Aeronautics and Astronautics, from Stanford University in California.

Prof. Hodges has been at Georgia Tech since fall 1986. He has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over 30 externally sponsored research projects, total expenditures of which exceed $6.5 million. He has advised 22 PhD and 27 MS graduates. He is the author of three books and over 260 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. For sixteen years he was a research scientist for the U.S. Army Aviation Systems Command, located at the NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain View, California. During this time he also lectured at Stanford University and spent half a year as guest research scientist at DLR in Germany. Dr. Hodges has received several awards in his professional career including two U.S. Patents, seven official commendations, three Sigma Xi research awards, the prestigious Research and Development Achievement Award, two technical paper awards from Science Applications International Corporation, and a Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Special Recognition Award. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Helicopter Society, and the American Academy of Mechanics.

Dr. Hodges embraced Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior* in 1970 while he was a graduate student at Stanford. He began conducting weekly, lunch-hour Bible studies and prayer meetings at the NASA Ames Research Center in 1971 and encouraged and assisted others at Ames to start meetings similar to his. Since coming to Georgia Tech, he has conducted similar weekly meetings at Georgia Tech.

While living in California he served as an Elder of Christian Community Church in San Jose. He developed and taught courses at Northern California Bible College (also in San Jose) in Cults, Apologetics, and Creation versus Evolution. He also taught courses on church history, systematic theology, conducting small group Bible studies, and various books of the Bible. On several radio talk shows he discussed scientific aspects of creation versus evolution. Dr. Hodges has taught in Bible classes on apologetics, creation versus evolution and theology, and served as a guest lecturer in Hank Hannegraaf's "Objections Overruled" series and twice as a lecturer at American Vision's Christian Worldview Student Conferences. Dr. Hodges and his wife Margaret are members of Chalcedon Presbyterian Church (RPCUS) in Cumming, Georgia, where he serves as an Elder. They have five sons, nine grandsons and seven granddaughters (and two grandchildren on the way as of this update in early 2008). He, his wife, and their youngest son Ben all reside in Dunwoody, Georgia.

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