Reeve Ingle Fast Out of the Gate
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s an undergraduate, Reeve Ingle, EE 08, completed four co-op work terms with the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston and an internship with the Department of Defense and was named the 2007 Student of the Year by the Cooperative Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education. Ingle is back at the Johnson Space Center this summer and will begin doctoral studies in electrical engineering this fall at Stanford University.
"This summer I am working on digital signal processing algorithms for an advanced sensor technology based on radio frequency identification," Ingle explains. "RFID is traditionally used for inventory and tracking purposes, but by using sophisticated signal processing techniques, we are able to compute temperature, strain and other environmental metrics from the received RFID signal. "These sensors have the benefit of being extremely rugged and capable of withstanding very harsh environments," he says. As a co-op student at NASA, Ingle worked on a variety of projects, including the design of a dashboard display unit, development of a radio frequency spectrum map for a robot rover as well as electrical systems drawings for a space station experiment module and the investigation of methods of cleaning clothing in space. He also trained to be a backroom flight controller at the Mission Control Center, wrote a technical report on space exploration research and presented it to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2005 and was the only co-op student selected to support NASA robotics field testing in the fall of 2006. Ingle also studied in Mexico City and Madrid and conducted undergraduate research at the Georgia Tech Optics Lab. He was actively involved with the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Christian Campus Fellowship. He volunteered as a host for Connect with Tech, a weekend for prospective students, and served as a committee chair for Tech Beautification Day and TEAM Buzz. Ingle has received more good news since winning the national co-op honor. "I was excited to learn that I was awarded a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship and a National Defense Science and Engineering fellowship," he says. "Both of these will be extremely beneficial in helping fund my graduate study and research."
David Moeller Grabbing Opportunities
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ladiator Garageworks has grabbed the Claw, pitched on the television series "American Inventor" last summer by two Tech alums. While the Claw did not win the top prize on TV, the exposure paid off, with Gladiator GarageWorks announcing the acquisition of the bicycle storage device in February.
The Claw, a replacement for a ceiling or wall hook, latches onto a bike tire with just a vertical motion depressing a central plunger. It releases the bike in the same manner.
"I can't disclose the numbers of our agreement, but it should be
This is a banner year for the 29-year-old Moeller, a President's
on the market by September at the latest. It will be called the Gladiator Claw," says co-inventor David Moeller, ME 02.
Scholar at Tech who earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in June and went to work for a startup test preparation company called Ivy Insiders in Boston. Moeller and co-inventor Craig Forest, ME 01, won the New York City regional leg of the "American Inventor" competition but failed to advance in the semifinal round. They did, however,
receive $50,000 to help ready the Claw for market. When announcing that it would release the Claw, Gladiator Garageworks said it was the first major U.S. manufacturer to commercially market a product introduced on "American Inventor." Gladiator displayed Moeller and Forest's prototype at the International Builders Show in February. — KLW >»
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