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Mechanical Engineer

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Mechanical Engineer | CU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) | 2004 - Current Design Team Lead: create interface control documents, formulate requirements, lead design effort Mechanical Design of Space Weather Instruments: Accommodate optical elements and electrical components to survive launch, to function in the vacuum of space, to withstand high energy radiation of geo orbits, and to undergo large temperature fluctuations. Currently designing motorized mechanism Mechanical Analysis: Vibrational analysis of structures undergoing launch, thermal stresses, thermal impact on optical alignments, optical realignment due to gravity release Technical Presenter: Present mechanical design to customers such as NOAA and NASA Integration and Test: Design and initiate component level tests, manage assembly of complex instrumentation, design and install apparatus for calibration at National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), interface with LockHeed Martin for integration of LASP’s instrument to LM’s observatory for the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) project Innovation: Supported NIST’s and LASP’s co-development of a silicon-based bolometer by experimentally characterizing material properties of 2um SixNx depositions. Proposal writing: Participated in writing a proposal which won a place for LASP’s SUrface Dust Analyzer on NASA’s upcoming Europa mission