Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Third Edition

About Donald E. CarlucciSidney S. Jacobson

Donald E. Carlucci has been an engineer at the U.S. Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center Picatinny Arsenal since May 1989. He is currently the U.S. Army senior scientist for computational structural modeling based at Picatinny. He holds a doctor of philosophy in mechanical engineering (2002) and a master of engineering (mechanical) (1995) degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken New Jersey. In 1987 he received his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark New Jersey. Dr. Carlucci is an adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Sidney S. Jacobson worked as a researcher designer and developer of ammunition and weapons at the U.S. Armys Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey for 35 years. He rose from junior engineer to associate director for R&D at the arsenal. In 1972 he was awarded an Arsenal Educational Fellowship to study continuum mechanics at Princeton University where he received his second MS degree (1974). He earned a master of science in applied mechanics from Stevens Institute of Technology (1958) and a bachelor of arts in mathematics from Brooklyn College (1951). He retired in 1986 but maintains his interest in the field through teaching writing consulting and lecturing.