1967 AAE Distinguished Engineering Alumnus

Alfred F. Schmitt

Director of Aerospace Digital Computers
General Precision Corporation
BSAE ’48, MSAE ’49, PhD ’53

He left the Purdue faculty in 1955 to become a senior dynamics engineer at Ryan Aeronautical Company; the was for six years with General Dynamics as a design specialist, group engineer, and section manager, responsible for flight control systems design for the Atlas ICBM weapon system, and for space boost vehicles, contributing to numerous space vehicle and satellite programs. He joined General Precision in 1963 as a chief engineer, responsible for design and support of aerospace digital computers supplied to NASA for inertial guidance and to the USAF for navigation of the C-141 global logistics transport aircraft. He assumed his position in 1965.