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People - Past and Present

Current Undergraduate Students

  • Thomas Ferron - developing the tracking mechanics, electronics and algorithm.
  • James Montgomery - developing the tracking mechanics, electronics and algorithm.
  • Josh White - FDTD electromagnetic modeling of the resonator and antenna.
  • Colby Whitaker - developing a cryogenically-cooled low noise amplifier.
  • Max Atkins - modifying and testing the amplifier and downconverting mixer block.
  • William Bramblett - acquisition of data from the spectrum analyzer and subsequent analysis.
  • John Elliot - ultra-fast ADC and FPGA digital signal processing development.

Graduate Students

  • Jeff Holmes (Fall 2012) - ultra-fast ADC and FPGA digital signal processing development

Faculty

  • Prof. William Hetherington, Department of Physics

Past Undergraduate Students

  • Mason Keck, working on the GRAIL project at JPL this summer, was responsible for the local oscillator used in the downconversion process.
  • Kris Paul
  • Jeff Holmes - senior thesis
  • Shaun Kibby - senior thesis
  • Troy Ansell - senior thesis
  • Rozi Nystrom- senior thesis
  • Josh Russell - senior thesis
  • Daniel Schwartz - senior thesis
  • Guy Cutting

Other Past Contributors

  • Jim Ketter
  • Joe Magner
  • Ken Lett
  • Dan Blakely