The Draper Technology Digest - Draper Laboratory

Joseph North is enrolled to start a Masters Degree program in Applied Physics at the Universityof Oregon in June 2012. He conducted two summers of glass research at Coe College with Prof.Steve Feller on characterizing the structure and properties in alkali borovanadate and lithiumsilicovanadate glasses. He has presented research in poster form at the International Congresson Glass (Salvador, Brazil, 2010) and the Glass and Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting(Corning, New York, 2010). He received a B.A. in Physics from Coe College.Alexander Ramm is a Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate in the Department ofChemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, where he is advised byProf. C. Dan Frisbie and Prof. Lorraine Francis. His research is on roll-to-roll processing of printedelectronics, with an initial focus on gravure printing methods. Prior to starting at the Universityof Minnesota, he studied photosensitive glass ceramics as a Stookey Research Intern at CorningIncorporated and alkaline earth borosilicate and alkali borovanadate glasses with Prof. Steve Fellerat Coe College. He received a B.A. in Physics from Coe College.William L. Robbins is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Microsystem AssemblyGroup in the Advanced Hardware Development Division at Draper Laboratory. He has worked inthe area of electronic ceramics for more than 35 years. He helped establish the Passive Parts Programfor the Trident MK5 Program and was responsible for the packaging of the stellar sensor used inthe Trident MK6 Program. He is currently overseeing the stellar sensor packaging for Trident MK6MOD 1 Program. He also developed the packaging technology used for the electron-bombardedcharge couple device (EBCCD) and the silicon oscillating accelerometer. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Ceramic Society. Dr. Robbins received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Ceramics Engineeringfrom Alfred University and a Ph.D. in Ceramics from MIT.Richard E. Stoner is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Guidance HardwareDivision. Prior to coming to Draper in 2000, he served as a post-doc, then a staff scientist, at theHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. At Draper, he focused initially on the SP23 MOD1 Interferometric Fiber-Optic Gyro (IFOG) program. He received the 2002 Draper DistinguishedPerformance Award for his work on a method for stabilizing the scale factor of a FOG in thestrategic environment. He also received the 2011 Howard Musoff Student Mentoring Award andis currently supervising two Draper Laboratory Fellows. He is co-author of 24 refereed physicsand engineering journal articles in a diverse array of technical fields, including free electron lasers,precision magnetometry, fundamental symmetry tests, and atom interferometry. He is co-inventoron three patents in the area of FOGs and electro-optics, with a fourth patent pending in the areaof atom interferometry techniques and methods. Dr. Stoner holds a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT.Brian Timmons is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory, where he hasfocused on the use of atomic vapors for precision sensing applications. He received a B.S. inEngineering Physics and Mathematics from Northeastern State University in 2000 and a Ph.D. inPhysics from Oklahoma State University in 2006.Best Paper Award: All Solid-State Ion-Conducting Cesium Source for Atomic Clocks75