By AP
ANN ARBOR, MI –
A former secretary of the Navy who recently was chosen to chair a Gulf oil spill investigation committee will be teaching at the University of Michigan's College
of Engineering this fall.
Donald Winter is leading a panel put together by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council that is looking into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. A preliminary report is scheduled to be released in October.
Winter also is a retired executive at Northrop Grumman Corp. and served as Navy secretary from 2006-09.
He received a doctorate in physics from Michigan in 1972.
The Ann Arbor school announced Tuesday that beginning next semester, Winter will teach Engineering 599, a graduate level Introduction to Systems Engineering class.