{"id":792,"date":"2023-01-18T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/?page_id=792"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:45:27","slug":"research-engineers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/research-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Research Engineers<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\"carroll_500\"\n

Megan Carroll<\/a><\/h3>\n

Research Engineer<\/em><\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Mechanical systems design, assembly, and testing for oceanographic applications.<\/p>\n

Contact: mcarroll@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"duffany_400\"\n\t

Daniel Duffany<\/a><\/h3>\n

Research Engineer<\/em><\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Ocean instrument design including mooring systems, surface buoys and other mechanical systems. Design and operational experience with ocean vehicles. Experience with prototyping and researching new designs. Experience with data acquisition and measuring mechanical quantities with software.<\/p>\n

Contact: dduffany@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"\"\n\t

Francis Elder<\/a><\/h3>\n

Research Engineer<\/em><\/p>\n

Contact: felder@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"gardner_500\"\n

Alan Gardner<\/a><\/h3>\n

Research Engineer<\/em><\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Primary battery design, precision autonomous timing, autonomous ocean bottom instrumentation, micro-power design, high efficiency power conversion, sensor calibration, OrCAD PCB Designer, C programming for ARM Cortex M and PIC microcontrollers, Python programming.<\/p>\n

Contact: agardner@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"hayden_500_2\"\n

Eric Hayden<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Mechanical Finite Element Analysis<\/p>\n

Contact: ehayden@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"OLYMPUS\n

Peter Koski<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Development and application of embedded signal processing technology for underwater acoustic communications; electronic hardware\/software design for long-term reliability; real-time signal processing techniques; data telemetry for long-life remote moored observatories.<\/p>\n

Group Site: Acoustic Communications Group<\/a><\/p>\n

Contact: pkoski@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"\"\n

Kevin Lemoi<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Contact: kevin.lemoi@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"manganini_500\"\n\t

Kevin Manganini<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Electromechanical systems and robotics engineering; conceptualization, design, fabrication, field deployment, testing and maintenance of various instrumentation platforms to measure physical, chemical, biological, and geophysical oceanographic data.<\/p>\n

Contact: kmanganini@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"rypkema2_500\"\n

Nicholas Rypkema<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Micro unmanned underwater vehicles, multi-vehicle operations, underwater navigation, applied acoustics and signal processing for underwater positioning and sensing.<\/p>\n

Contact: nrypkema@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Photos\n

Jared Schwartz<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Mechanical Finite Element Analysis<\/p>\n

Contact: jschwartz@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Craig\n

Fred Thwaites<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Mechanical design, prototype development, fluid mechanics, fluid-induced vibration, instrumentation, signal processing, estimation and removal of platform motion from measurements.<\/p>\n

Contact: fthwaites@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"tradd2_500\"\n\t

Kaitlyn Tradd<\/a><\/h3>\nResearch Engineer
\n<\/em>\n

Research Interests: <\/strong>Design of oceanographic instrumentation and sampling systems, remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles and their subsystems, and support equipment for at-sea field research.<\/p>\n

Contact: ktradd@whoi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research Engineers Megan Carroll Research Engineer Research Interests: Mechanical systems design, assembly, and testing for oceanographic applications. Contact: mcarroll@whoi.edu Daniel Duffany Research Engineer Research Interests: Ocean instrument design including mooring systems, surface buoys and other mechanical systems. Design and operational experience with ocean vehicles. Experience with prototyping and researching new designs. Experience with data acquisition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/792\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}