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Co-op experience and responsibilities
- RF engineering Co-op, Northrop Grumman Xetron, Cincinnati, Ohio (4 quarters):
- Entered parts into company database.
- Wrote purchase requisitions.
- Built, tested, and optimized an impedance matching antenna in the VHF bandwidth. Further developed the antenna in following co-op quarters by adding encapsulation and measuring antenna gain.
- Performed engineering tests on digital receiver and transmitter boards.
- Performed manufacturing tests on communications box.
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Assisted test engineer in building a test box by soldering, documenting, and testing.
- Helped to design a microwave conical antenna. Continued work during final co-op quarter by building, optimizing and integrating a coupler
- Modified previous design of a small signal amplifier to increase bandwidth to 10kHz to 100MHz.
- Built and tested microwave dipole antennas.
- Granted DoD Top Secret clearance based upon an SSBI completed January 2006.
- Electrical engineering co-op, Siemens VDO Automotive, Würzburg, Germany (2 quarters)
- Worked on thermal safety for electrical motors in engine fans. Planned tests and analyzed results using DIAdem software.
- Improved C code for test box by increasing the accuracy of an analog output.
- Ran software validation tests.
- Wrote small program to control a thermal chamber using LabView.
Skills/Expertise areas
- Test equipment: Network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, power supplies, thermal chambers
- Mathematical software: MATLAB, Mathematica, MathCAD
- Circuit analysis software: ADS 2005, PSPICE
- Test software: DIAdem, LabView,
- C++ programming language.
- German language.
Areas of Interest
- RF Communications
- Controls
Type of Project Sought
- RF/Wireless Communications
- Position Triangulation
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