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McLaughlin
Local Address mclaughlin.david.j@gmail.com Permanent Address
119 South Burrowes St. 112 Penn Woods Court
Apt. 303, Burrowes Corner Irwin, PA 15642
State College, PA 16801 Cell: (814) 574-2524 724-744-3511
EDUCATION:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Physics, expected August
2010
• Physics GPA: 3.97/4.00
• Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.68/4.00
• Cumulative GPA: 3.74/4.00
EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Physics Research Assistant through Teas Scholarship Program
Penn State Physics Department, Summer 2009
• Designed and built a rack-mounted, band-pass filter for equipment Dr. Kozhevnikov uses
to gather information about neuron activity in birds
• Dr. Kozhevnikov has a detector that uses dielectric spectroscopy and contactless
conductivity detection for bioanalysis of substances in submicroliter capillaries
• Allowed the detector to operate at higher frequencies by designing and milling
microstrips that matched the detector to the test equipment. Valuable information used
to characterize the substance exists at these higher frequencies
• Designed, modeled, and implemented different electrode geometries, and varied the
electrode materials, in order to minimize parasitic capacitance between the electrodes and
the substance in the capillary, thus improving detector sensitivity.
• Used Matlab and spectrum analyzer to test all such detector setups across various
frequencies
Co-Lead for Guidance, Navigation, and Control Subsystem for NittanySat -Satellite
Penn State Electrical Engineering Department, Spring 2007
• Identified the type of sensors needed for attitude determination based on a thorough trade
analysis
• Developed preliminary design for sensor that used triangulation to find the angle with
respect to the sun, based on a Position Sensitive Diode (PSD)
• Designed a housing and aperture assembly for the PSD in Solidworks
• Worked with the Structures team to see if we could mount the sun sensor design on each
of NittanySat’s six panels