Education

• Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990
• M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988
• B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986

Teaching Interests

Professor Smith's teaching is focused on the undergraduate core course, most often in machine design.  In all courses, he works to incorporate design and open-ended problems to better prepare students for engineering practice in the real world.

Research Interests

Professor Smith's research activities have been primarily focused on the design and precision control of large, steerable telescopes, particularly at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.

Recent Publications

• Hughes, D.H., et al. "The Large Millimeter Telescope: Current status and telescope performance," Proc. SPIE 12182, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IX, 1218213 (29 August 2022).
• Hughes, D.H., et al., “The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) Alfonso Serrano: Current Status and Telescope Performance.”, SPIE symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, San Diego, CA, 2020.
• The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, “Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of the Archetypal Blazar 3C 279 at an Extreme 20 Microarcsecond Resolution,” Astronomy and Astrophysics, 640, A69, 2020.