Interests
USAF veteran, Secret writer for the Dodo(USAFA) back in the day: the Dodo was sanctioned and forced online due to censorship by the evil powers in Harmon Hall. If a writer penned something the brass didn't like, cadets were subject to disciplinary action such as tours. For a sample of the Dodo, see edodo.org. For a brief description see wikipedia The Dodo. Guidance and control systems: semi-analytical inertial nav, gps, ske-radar, ADF radar. Small vacuum chambers for silicon all the way up to hyperbaric chambers for flight training and environmental simulation.
Playing with KMnO4, SiH4, N2H4 as well as solid and liquid fuel hybrids and nozzle types for efficient and controlled burn rates: who knew that to do this outside a college or lab setting is frowned upon? Now mix that with the guidance systems and you've taken hobby rocket building to another level. Tunneling electron microscopes, scanning electron microscopes, spectroscopy, x-ray analysis, refractive index analysis, stress analysis, the study of thin films and their applications, ceramics and composite materials. Industrial robotics and their applicable use in manufacturing environments.
Digging for iridium shock quartz and searching for sites with a cross section of the K-T boundary exposed. Fossil hunting in AZ, UT, TX, NM, and CO in the Raton Basin.
Professional Student and had worked in a class 1 ultra clean room research lab for 10 years.
BS Ops mgt, Sr lvl in gen eng (physics, part diff eq, elec eng, mech eng, aero, thermo, chem eng). I would like to continue my studies in the areas of geophysics and astrophysics: I believe an understanding of these disciplines enlighten those to the truth, history, and quite possibly the future of the universe.
