Engineering
Electrical Engineering Staff Positions
Microwave Engineering
Hughes Aircraft Company, Space and Communications Group, El Segundo, CA
At Hughes Aircraft, I worked on device engineering for communication satellites, specifically in the filters and multiplexers lab. I helped to design and develop a series of half-height waveguide couplers at the C-band microwave frequency. I also assembled, tuned, and tested C-band telemetry filters, bandpass filters, and output multiplexers. The devices I worked on were for the Brasilsat, Solidaridad, and Panamsat programs. The devices were gold or silver plated for conductivity reasons.
Engineering Internships and Summer Jobs
Electromagnetic Compatibilty
Delphi, Saginaw Steering Systems, Saginaw, MI
As a summer engineering intern at Delphi, I worked with a small team trying to reduce the impact of radio frequency electromagnetic emissions produced by a motor-controller assembly within a completely electronic steering system. (It was assumed that car owners would not want to hear a whirring sound in the radio every time they turned the steering wheel.) This required measuring emissions and then testing proposed electromagnetic compatibility solutions. A highlight of the internship was a trip to the General Motors proving grounds to use one of their anechoic chambers.
Engineering Technician
The Liebert Corporation, Irvine, CA
In this summer position during grad school, I assisted staff engineers in the R&D lab on projects involving large uninterruptible power systems such as a cabinet of batteries that would switch immediately to power a hospital floor in case of a power outage.
Software Engineering
Universität – GH Siegen, Siegen, Germany
The aim of the project was to integrate measurement data from lasers to quickly form computer models of the size, shape, and position of a target object. My contribution was testing software that would be used to interface with the lasers. For that, I learned about image processing using the “C” programming language.