Resume

John E. Naglak

Education

MS, Mechanical Engineering - Michigan Technological University 2016- Expected 2018 | Houghton, MI

BS, Engineering cum laude Fort Lewis College 2012 - 2014 | Durango, CO

Western Colorado University 2007 - 2010 | Gunnison, CO

Proficiencies

Matlab, Python, ROS, LATEX, C, Labview, DSP, Solidworks, Controls, Sensors & Acquisition

Experience

Research Assistant, Michigan Technological University Aug 2016-Present

• Developed a Robot Operating System (ROS) based backseat controller for a small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which implements visual homing using OpenCV on Raspberry Pi
• Designed control algorithms and implemented them in Python
• Component design and system integration for AUV applications
• Implemented sensor fusion of stereo vision and LIDAR in with pathplanning in ROS for autonomous navigation on the Husky UGV
• Applied Extended Kalman Filter to odometry sources including Motion Capture, GPS and proprioceptive sensors
• SENSE Enterprise Graduate Assistant

Teaching Assistant, Michigan Technological University Aug 2016-Dec 2016

• MEEM 3600 Intro to Manufacturing

Propulsion Engineer, Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test LLC, Durango, CO Sept 2014-July 2016

• Wrote NI LabView applications for data acquisition and control.
• Implemented National Instruments hardware for data acquisition and control up to 200k Hz using NI-Rio FPGA.
• Installed and maintained rocket engine and test stand instrumentation
• Performed hot-fire hypergolic rocket engine testing
• Calculated heat exchanger and cooling system design for hypergolic fuel feedsystem tanks and piping as part of a team of 3
• Developed a system identification tool in LabView integrated with PI control of multiple parallel cooling loops
• Installed, validated, and operated feedsystem cooling for hot-fire rocket test under extremely tight timeline as part of a team of 6

Student Engineer NASA Space Grant Consortium at Fort Lewis College Jan 2012- May 2014

• Designed a passive ocean sampling platform and integrated GPS, Iridium satellite modem, 9 degree-of-freedom inertial measurement unit, temperature sensor, and data-logging systems with an Atmel microcontroller as a member of a student design team.

Colorado Space Grant Consortium at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 2012-2014

• Designed μcontroller systems for high altitude research payloads
• Campaigned an autonomous rover for COSGC Robotics Challenge
• Developed a control system for the FLC Observatory dome

Associate Development Engineer, Formacoat Sept 2005- July 2007

• Developed processes and fabricated tooling for hydrophilic coating of pressure-sensing guide-wire components.
• Designed and constructed testbeds for quality control. Performed validation and wrote documentation for training and FDA Quality Systems

Publications

• (Accepted) B. Page, J. Naglak, C. Kase, N. Mahmoudian, "Autonomous Docking for Exploration of Extraterrestrial Lakes," AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, 2019.
• B. Li et al., "Integrated Mission Planning and Adaptable Docking System for AUV Persistence," IEEE OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Symposium, Porto, 2018.
• B. Page, J. Naglak, N. Mahmoudian, "Littoral Magnetic and Water Column Survey Underwater Glider," IEEE OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Symposium, Porto, 2018.
• J. Naglak, B. Page, N. Mahmoudian, "Backseat Control of SandShark AUV using ROS on RaspberryPi," OCEANS 2018 - CHARLESTON, Charleston, SC, 2018.
• B. Page, J. Naglak, C. Kase, N. Mahmoudian, "Collapsible Underwater Docking Station Design and Evaluation," OCEANS 2018 - CHARLESTON, Charleston, SC, 2018.
• J. Ogle et al., "Design and development of a sampling platform to study long distance seed dispersal," OCEANS 2014 - TAIPEI, Taipei, 2014, pp. 1-8.