Wednesday, June 4, 7:00am - 8:00am

A New Approach to Collaboration
and Commercializing Research

 

Rick Lynch, Lt. Gen., US Army (retired)
Exec. Director, Automation & Robotics Research Institute
UT Arlington

 

Topic Synopsis: TBA

 

Lieutenant General Lynch joined UT Arlington in April to oversee the University's robotics institute and its associated units following a 35-year career in the US Army. He also serves as a special adviser to UT Arlington President James Spaniolo.

 

Rick Lynch is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. Commissioned as an engineering officer, he later transferred to Armor, where he served in multiple command positions. Lynch also obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on robotics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This knowledge led to his assignment as the Robotics Project Officer in the Directorate of Combat Development at the Armor Center and later as the Armor Center's Chief of Force Development.

 

His command assignments include Assistant Division Commander (Support), 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Hood, Texas; Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, later Chief of Staff, Kosovo Force (KFOR); Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Allied Joint Force Command-Naples; Commanding General, Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) and Southern Baghdad Area of Operations; and others. His last command position was III Armored Corps and Fort Hood, beginning in July 2008.

 

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