Bjorn Vaagensmith Email & Phone Number

Idaho Falls, Id

• Programmed in MatLab, C, and python for controlling data acquisition systems• Blackstart and resilience Power systems related research• Researched and developed novel high temperature tolerant electrical insulation materials• Coauthor technical reports to customers and published original research in scientific journals• Wrote proposals and won funding for the department, as well as manage research projects

Brookings, Sd

• Pulled wires through various business, schools, and facilities.• Mounted security cameras and installed video monitors.• Assigned IP addresses for and inspected fire alarms• Other duties as assigned

Brookings, Sd

• Created an environmentally friendly fabrication method for PEDOT:PSS electrodes and solved interfacial issues for applications in mixed halide perovskite solar cells.• Achieved highly stable silver nanowire electrodes that lasted 13 times longer than the current record.• Studied ZnO coated, non-coated silver nanowire electrodes under electrical stress. • Initiated and advised construction projects to improve the work environment, as well as create and enforce laboratory safety procedures as Laboratory Safety Manager.• Developed LabView code and experimental setup to test silver nanowire electrodes, batteries, and solar batteries (batteries charged via sunlight). • Learned photovoltaic systems design and compiling a bill of materials.• Established key relationships with vendors to manage laboratory supplies and troubleshoot laboratory equipment.• Participated in writing an SBIR proposal for developing and marketing intellectual property.• Trained new students to become SPM users and performed SPM for non-authorized system users.• Effectively collaborated with department customers to perform SEM and EDS imaging.• Fabricated silicon solar cells using photolithography and wet etching in cleanroom class 100, 1,000, and 10,000.• Worked on other research projects involving dye sensitized solar cells, soil sensors, graphene oxide, SPM transient measurements, metal oxide thin films, nanoparticles, and ink formulation.

Brookings, Sd

• Adapted teaching methods to enable students with various learning styles and abilities to excel. • Lectured students on course material to prepare them for laboratory sessions.• Taught electronic circuit design and troubleshooting.• Taught PLC, assembly, and embedded C programming.• Graded homework and lab reports.

Omaha, Ne

• Performed an underground cable study and a load flow study for a solar power plant.• Performed arc flash analysis for a wind power plant.• Referenced IEEE and NEC codes to support design recommendations.• Validated design drawings. • Designed lighting for a church.

Sioux Center, Ia

• Updated components on 8VSB/QAM (receives and processes wireless television signals) option card for Sencore’s MRD unit.

Tallahassee, Fl

• Designed a portable weather balloon that measured wind velocity and direction.• Identified appropriate charge controllers to incorporate both wind and solar power together.• Designed an experimental ammonia plant to act as energy storage for wind turbines. • Learned Ladder Diagram programming language for programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) .

Sioux Center, Ia

• Tutored students in Physics, Calculus, and Electrical Engineering courses.

Paso Robles, Ca

• Researched and built an electrocoagulation unit that could later be developed to extract clean water from the ethanol byproduct.• Built MicroFuelers (a small ethanol plant the size of a refrigerator).• Wrote a PID program in C that could later be used to regulate the temperature within the micro-fueler distillation column. • Participated in company promotional events and engaged in public relations.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Materials Research Society member, IEEE member Emphasis in Materials and Devices. Learned to fabricate lithium.

Master’S Degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.6/4.0

Activities and Societies: IEEE member Emphasis in Materials and Devices. Fabricated silicon and polymer solar cells. Learned how.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Engineering (With Electrical Emphasis), 3.2/4.0

Activities and Societies: IEEE member, Campus Community Band, Student Symposium, Justice Matters Club, ATA Taekwondo, Dordt College.

4.0/4.0

As a high school senior, I was qualified to take college-level English courses offered by Waldorf College.