J. Milton Bailey

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J. Milton Bailey

J. Milton Bailey

Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Education

  • B.S. 1949, Physics, Davidson College
  • M.S. 1952, Electrical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Ph.D. 1960, Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Bailey spent three years as an instrument engineer with E.I. DuPont before earning his doctorate from Georgia Tech in 1960. While at Georgia Tech, he received the M.A. Ferst Sigma Xi Award for his dissertation. After receiving his doctorate, Bailey was instrumental in the development of the system engineering approach to missile designs for Martin Marietta.

As manager of Systems Engineering for Martin Marietta, Bailey’s research activities at the Army Missile Command Redstone Arsenal and the Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency focused on guidance and control for the Pershing missile and an anti-ballistic missile. Bailey later supervised the SPRINT Missile System project as manager of the System Analysis Department. He also served as technical director of Martin Marietta’s portion of the SAM-D Missile System, which evolved into the Patriot System.

In 1968, he accepted the ALCOA Chair of Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Upon beginning a consulting agreement with Union Carbide in 1970, later known as Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Bailey applied his skills to the Gaseous Diffusion Plant where he helped develop the center centrifuge drive system. In 1991, Bailey received a patent on this Axial Gap Permanent Magnet Brushless D.C. Motor. Four years later, this motor was exhibited on the White House lawn at a celebration of the “Partnership for a New Generation Vehicle.”

Bailey was the author or co-author of over 50 technical publications, establishing himself as a recognized leader in the electrical engineering fields of controls and motor design. He was a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Professor Emeritus in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.