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Engineers Nominated By IEEE / IEEE - USA Thomas Ainsworth Committed to process improvement, Ainsworth became a certified Six Sigma Green Belt after proposing his own project and continues to help define and refine the company’s design and manufacturing processes. He also continues to study areas of academic interest related to his master’s degree in computer engineering (University of Southern California) and presented his latest work in a journal paper and at the 1st ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks-on-chip in 2007. Jason Karns During National Engineers Week, Karns enjoys volunteering at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Science Center, where he has educated potential science and engineering students and the public about the way nuclear power is generated and its benefits in reducing global warming. Currently, Karns is pursuing a foreign assignment, through which he hopes to gain knowledge and experience with other commercial nuclear reactor design methods and techniques, in order to apply that knowledge to domestic nuclear power plants. Lukas Kunz While earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering at Brigham Young University, Kunz was a research assistant at the Microwave Earth Remote Sensing Laboratory. His thesis research focused on space-borne scatterometer measurements of the Earth’s polar regions and resulted in a conference paper presented at the 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, as well as publications appearing in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2005) and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2006). Kunz is currently mentoring another young engineer, with whom he has developed an algorithm for which they will apply for a patent. Laleh Samani Samani then joined the WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) project, working as a software developer in designing, analyzing, and implementing functionalities that improved the security and performance of the system under normal and heavy load. She also has been involved in designing and implementing highly efficient tools in terms of time and space complexity for call processing servers and network management servers to process, back up, and restore huge amounts of critical data for further analysis of the overall system. « BACK |
Thomas Ainsworth, senior member of the Technical Staff at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, is a design engineer in the company’s Space Technology sector, allowing him to combine two of his favorite interests: space and electronics. After working on computer subsystem designs, he became a responsible engineer for the customer’s next generation protected, survivable satellite communications system.
Jason Karns, a safety system functional design engineer at Westinghouse Electric Co. in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, develops functional requirements for Instrumentation and Control protection systems in nuclear power plants. His work involves developing requirements for the Westinghouse AP1000™ Protection and Safety Monitoring System. The AP1000™ is a Generation III+ nuclear power plant with many passive safety features that rely on gravity and other natural forces to ensure plant safety. 
Lukas Kunz, a senior multi-disciplined engineer in the RF Signal Processing Department at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona, focuses on algorithm development for air-to-ground radar applications. He has been involved in conceptual design, development, and demonstration of advanced sensor technologies to help protect American troops in battlefield environments.
Laleh Samani, a software engineer at Motorola in Fort Worth, Texas, initially worked to develop Simulator tools in support of a gateway product that enables calls to cross between 2nd generation and 3rd generation cellular networks. Later she transitioned to a new product/technology project, developing software that will allow end users - during a call - to move seamlessly from disparate networks (for example, an in-company phone system to an external cellular network).
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