Kevin James Dimond

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EDUCATION

University of Colorado – Boulder, CO M.S. in Aerospace Engineering – May 2016 GPA 3.89 Certificate – Remote Sensing

University of Washington – Seattle, WA B.S. in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering – June 2013 GPA 3.64

WORK HISTORY

CU Grand Challenges – Project Lead (May 2015 – Sept. 2015)

Lead of an Asteroid Mining Space Pod for STEM education. o Managed a team of 7 students from various disciplines to educate the public and promote CU. o CAD and CAM fabrication of a functional magnetic separator and mining vehicle models. OptiNav – Aeroacoustics Engineer (June 2013 – July 2014)

Responsible for project planning, designing, and writing proposals including o Authoring NASA and NSF SBIR’s, an Army STTR, and FAA proposals. o Joint inventor and author of 3 nonprovisional patent applications. o Planned and conducted static solid rocket motor tests as noise sources.

Designed, built, and worked with phased microphone and hydrophone arrays.

Supported a static engine noise test for Pratt and Whitney Canada. UW AA Department – Research Assistant (March 2012 – June 2013)

Ram Accelerator

o Designed and machined projectiles, cycled shots, collected data, and performed maintenance.

Shock Wave Reactor, Continuous Detonation Wave Turbine, and supersonic fuel injection o Generated theoretical computational models, CAD, and performed system maintenance. SKILLS

Programs

o Experienced with MATLAB/Simulink, SolidWorks, ANSYS, LaTeX, MS Word/Excel, and SketchUp. o Familiar with LabVIEW, HTML, Maple, Mathematica, Mathcad, XFLR5, C++, STK, ENVI, and ImageJ.

Manufacturing

o Metal working, CNC milling and lathing, and wood working. o Composite lay-ups, additive manufacturing, and laser cutting.

Technical

o Phased microphone array construction, deployment, data collection, and analysis. o Grader for Aircraft Propulsion and Rocket Propulsion courses. o NAR(National Association of Rocketry) member: Level 1 certified. o Tutored math, physics, engineering, and chemistry. ENGINEERING

Projects

o HySoR(Hybrid Sounding Rocket) ULA funded graduate project, Ground Support Equipment(GSE) lead. o Student lead of a NASA Phase I SBIR testing an experimental soil sampling rocket. o Senior capstone design R&D lead, designing and testing steam rocket propulsion. o Circulus Astrum, a commercial asteroid mining feasibility senior capstone project. o DRACO(Dynamic Reconnaissance And Covert Operations), a powered reconnaissance glider concept.

Publications

o nonprovisional patent “Apparatus for Measuring Acoustic Absorption In-Situ” o nonprovisional patent “Functional Beamforming”

o nonprovisional patent “In-Flow Wind Tunnel Microphone Array”. o “Defining a Successful Commercial Asteroid Mining Program”, 64th International Astronautical Conference, 2013.

o Indexed and edited “Precalculus An Investigation of Functions”, D. Lippman and M. Rasmussen, 2011

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