Wise is a Senior Technical Fellow of Advanced Flight Controls in Boeing’s Phantom Works division. Since starting with the company in 1982, he has developed vehicle management systems, flight control systems, and control system design tools and processes for advanced manned and unmanned aircraft and weapon system programs. He also manages a vehicle management system team for unmanned aircraft programs for Phantom Works.
As President and CEO of Innovative Control Technologies, LLC (INNCON), Wise develops and teaches workshops on engineering solutions to complex controls challenges, working primarily with the aerospace and oil/gas industries. He is also a Chief Advisor at Kelda Drilling Controls, Norway, consulting on adaptive control and advanced systems engineering in managed pressure drilling applications.
Since earning his PhD in 1987, Wise has taught graduate-level control systems courses at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Missouri of Science and Technology, and Washington University in St. Louis. He has also created research topics and supervised research programs pertaining to problems in the aerospace community. Wise’s many research interests include aircraft vehicle management systems, robust and adaptive control, intelligent autonomous systems, weapon system guidance and control, and battle management and command and control.
His success has earned him numerous awards from IEEE, AIAA, and AACC for both his work in controls and his teaching. He is a Fellow of IEEE (2007), and AIAA (2013). In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the highest professional honor accorded an engineer.
Wise said he is honored to be recognized by the department and credits the quality of MechSE’s teachers for his success.
“I was taught by some of the best minds in the world, and it had a big impact on me and the choices I made in my career path.”