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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Dr. Thomas Carney is Professor of Aviation Technology and Head of the Department of Aviation Technology at Purdue University, where he has taught since 1972. Dr. Carney has over 34 years of experience as a pilot, with more than 9,500 flight hours, and holds the Airline Transport Pilot certificate with multiengine, Mitsubishi Diamond, and Beechjet type ratings, in addition to the Certified Flight Instructor certificate with airplane single- and multiengine, and instrument airplane ratings. He currently flies as pilot-in-command and instructor pilot on Purdue's Beechcraft King Air (B200) and Beechjet (400A) aircraft. Dr. Carney's primary teaching areas in aviation include advanced aviation meteorology, high performance turbine operations, high altitude flight, and corporate flight department management. Dr. Carney was the 1996 recipient of the James G. Dwyer award for outstanding undergraduate teaching in the School of Technology, and is a member of the inaugural group of 225 men and women included in the Purdue University Book of Great Teachers.

In addition to his flight background, Dr. Carney holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Science. His primary areas of interest in atmospheric science include aviation meteorology and the impact of weather on aviation operations, synoptic-scale dynamics and energetics, and the interactions between synoptic- and mesoscale
motion fields.

He is the author, or co-author, of more than 73 publications and presentations, and is a member of a number of national organizations and committees relating to collegiate flight education and accreditation, aviation meteorology, and corporate flight operations. Dr. Carney is the senior editor of the Collegiate Aviation Review, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education and Research and the Journal of Air Transportation. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the University Aviation Association and the Council on Aviation Accreditation, and is chairperson of the CAA Standards Committee. Dr. Carney is an active consultant in corporate flight operations, and expert witness in litigation involving flight operations and aviation meteorology.