Events
Designing achievable optical systems for the lab and for space
28 April 2022
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)
Careful design work at the beginning of a project can make for a faster overall design process and less pain down the road. These steps include careful requirement writing, testing plans, error budgets, tolerance analysis, and project risk assessments. This presentation will give a broad overview of these engineering concepts, with examples of how to apply them to projects from graduate research to space telescope design. This talk is aimed at younger Optica members or for members from a physics or pure science background that now operate in engineering roles.
About Our Speaker: Benjamin Cromey, Ball Aerospace
Dr. Benjamin Cromey is an Optical Engineer at Ball Aerospace, where he works on large NASA telescopes and internal research and development efforts. He received his PhD in Optical Sciences and engineering under Prof. Khanh Kieu at the University of Arizona James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences. During his PhD, he helped teach these engineering concepts to hundreds of senior engineering students through the capstone engineering course.
