Dr. Burchett is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor's degree in Astronautical Engineering from the Air Force Academy in 1987. He served twelve and one half years of active duty in the Air Force including seven as a B-52 pilot, and three as an instructor of Mechanical Engineering at West Point. He holds a master's degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Oregon State. He has been a visiting researcher at NASA Marshall four times for a combined total of one year on site. He is an associate fellow of the AIAA. Dr. Burchett teaches courses on control, intelligent control, dynamics, system dynamics, and numerical methods. His research interests include the application of advanced and intelligent control algorithms to aerospace vehicles, modeling and fault detection of launch vehicle subsystems, and application of numerical linear algebra to advanced control theory.
AIAA SciTech 2017: "A Gauss Pseudospectral Collocation for Rapid Trajectory Prediction and Guidance" 
AIAA SciTech 2015: "Euler-Lagrange Optimal Control for Symmetric Projectiles"
AIAA SciTech 2014: "Predictive Optimal Pulse-jet Control for Symmetric Projectiles"
NEW journal article in press: "Unscented Kalman Filters for Range–Only Cooperative Localization of Swarms of Munitions in Three–Dimensional Flight" 
AIAA ASM 2001: "Specialized Kalman Filtering for Guided Projectiles" 
Math Seminar given March 17, 2004 at Rose Hulman, "Numerical ODE Solving for a Chaotic System" 
Math Seminar given March 30, 2005 at Rose-Hulman, "Batch Calculation of the Residues and Their Sensitivities, Or: How to compute almost any derivative using sum(prod([combnk(factors), dfactors.]))"
Math Seminar given Dec. 17, 2008: "Differentiating the QZ Algorithm with Application to Gradient Based Output Feedback Optimization"
Invited Talk Given at Taylor University on Feb. 23, 2015: "Toward Finite Horizon Optimal Control of Indirect Fire Munitions" 
Invited Talk given at ARL on Oct. 7, 2015, repeated as Math Seminar Dec. 2, 2015 "Three Recent Advances in Optimal Control of Fin Stabilized Surface to Surface Missiles" 
"Five Minute" update given at Rose-Hulman 2015 
"Cooperative Navigation for Large Swarms of Munitions in 3D Flight 
