Kade Bowers Email & Phone Number

• Assisted with training and recruiting new engineers
• Lead Lean Six Sigma projects to increase group efficiency
• Optical Design Projects: created prescription lens files in Zemax and CodeV, as well as evaluated optical designs for external customers and internal product development

• Responsible for supporting EO’s 30,000+ catalog products and helping customers integrate them into different optical systems
• Evaluated custom optics requests and determined feasibility based on manufacturing capabilities and business profitability
• Selected as the Edmund Optics Rookie of the year for 2021

• Researched with the Adaptive Optics Research Group under Dr. Michael Hart
• Master's Thesis: Modeling elements of the Adaptive Optics system for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative. Creating Radiometric and kinematic models for the Solar Sail in Fred and Matlab
• High-Temporal Imaging camera. Working to create and test an imaging polarimeter to diagnose satellite health

• Teaching Assistant for the class "Technical Writing and Communication for Optics"
• Helped students develop their research and presentation skills

• Trained college students in leadership, communication, and project management
• Launched nonprofit and humanitarian projects in the US and East Asia
• Developed curriculum and trained teams in interpersonal skills and conflict resolution
• Planned and executed small and large scale events for a dozen to one hundred students
• Fund-Development: raised and managed over $120,000 from donors across the US

Tucson, AZ

• Investigated the feasibility of creating a holographic Heads Up Display directly on a curved aircraft windshield.

Tucson, AZ

• Created an Experimental Flash LIDAR Imaging system. Worked with a small team for Dr. Yuzuru Takashima to recreate and to improve upon a prototype Flash LIDAR Imaging System designed to be used for autonomous vehicles.
• Gained experience with optical alignment, infrared illumination, Arduino microcontrollers, troubleshooting electrical circuits, and MATLAB for data processing.

Tucson, AZ

• Made and prepared tasty burgers and fries.

Tucson, AZ

• Responsible for maintaining and advancing hydrodynamic columns of different ores
• Performed sample analysis on different ore samples and leaching solutions to optimize the heap-leaching process

Master'S Degree, Optics/Optical Sciences

Master's Thesis: "Radiometric Modeling for Breakthrough Starshot: How Sail Shape and BRDF Impact the Adaptive Optics"

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Optical Science And Engineering, Graduate

Activities and Societies: Cru, SPIE, SOCk (Student in Optics Chapter)Graduated with Honors. Minored in Astronomy and in Mathematics.