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 Dr.
Kulp was born on November 4, 1943, in Norfolk, Virginia, and graduated from Palm
Beach High School, West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1961. professional life has been
concentrated in three over-lapping areas: military, academic and consulting. After
graduating from Florida State University in 1964 with a BS in mathematics, he entered
the United States Air Force and served first as a mathematician and then entered
flight school and received the aeronautical rating of navigator. the next fifteen
years he flew 3046 hours, primarily in C-130 and KC-135 aircraft. Interspersed between
flying tours, he completed the MS and Ph. D. degrees in mathematics with a specialty
in mathematical statistics. Dr. Kulp retired from the Air Force in 1984 in the grade
of lieutenant colonel.
His academic credentials include assistant and associate professorships at the School
of Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and
associate and full professorships at Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee.
While at Lipscomb University, Dr. Kulp served as chair of the Department of Mathematics,
Assistant Vice President for Quality and Institutional Effectiveness and as Vice
President for Quality and Technology.
In addition to flying and academic duties, Dr. Kulp has maintained an active consulting
practice, beginning with experimental design projects for NATO, the Air Force Materials
Laboratory and the Air Force Human Factors Laboratory to statistical analysis of
continuous manufacturing processes and, finally, to statistical auditing of taxpayer
records. Kulp is a certified quality engineer, a fellow in the American Society
for Quality and a member of the American Statistical Association.
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