Electrical Engineer Power

Josh M. Gordonson

e-mail for current address: abqgmb@r.postjobfree.com

Education MIT CAMBRIDGE MA Expected June 2012

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Current GPA: 4.5/5

Experience Olopede: Co-Founder 2010 On

Designed two out of the rst four kits being produced:

A Function Generator and a Class D Ampli er with a Class AB Pre-Amp.

An open-source electronics kit company that wants to put the education back in DIY electronics.

Makani Power: Power Electronics Intern Summer 2011

Designed, routed, and fabricated a PPM to serial converter for a hand-held joystick interface.

Began preliminary design and simulation on a 35KW 1000V DC power supply for generator

bench testing.

SpaceX: Mission Operations Intern Summer 2011

Assembled and tested ve out of seven mobile Ground Station Racks to cover Dragon Capsule

communication (command, telemetry, and HD Video) worldwide.

Designed a fence perimeter to surround one of the command uplink dishes.

Vishwa Robotics: Lead Electrical Engineer Summer 2010

Designed a multi-channel servo motor controller with power sensing capabilities for use on micro

aerial vehicle landing gear.

Freelance Consulting 2009

SharkSuit and ShiftSkirt - Actuator, Sensor, and Controls Design for E-Textiles

Two interactive dresses that provide the wearer with a means to express personal space and

the dynamic temporal condition, respectively.

N55 Walking House - Linear Actuator Feedback Controller Board Design

A walking house traversing the streets of Copenhagen.

MIT Media Lab: High-Low Tech Group Winter 2008

Paper Circuits - Explored the space of conductive ink circuits painted on ferrous-backed paper.

Components mounted on paper with magnetic contacts designed to connect to a paper circuit

board with painted traces.

Living Wallpaper - Helped construct a conductive and ferromagnetic wall compatible with

Paper Circuits components.

A magnetically recon gurable multi-microcontroller enabled wall inherently capable of low-

resolution capacitive sensing and ambient light control.

Relevant 6.003 Signals and Systems 6.301 Solid State Circuits

Coursework 6.004 Computational Structures 6.302 Feedback Systems

6.011 Signals, Systems, and Inference 6.331 Advanced Circuit Techniques

6.131 Power Electronics Laboratory 6.978 RF Systems and Circuit Design

Skills Languages & Software: C, Python, PHP, Eagle, Spice, Solidworks, Linux.

Machining & Fabrication: Mill, Lathe, Arc, MIG, TIG, Soldering, etc.

Groups Elected President of MITERS

Vice President of The Senior House

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