Paul Sperling Email & Phone Number

Epping, New Hampshire, United States

Propulsion and Energetics Intern. Supporting R&D of novel liquid rocket engines.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Chief Engineer of team rapidly developing liquid fueled rocketsRecently launched Darcy I, a 360 lbf-thrust nitrous/IPA fueled liquid rocket to 20000+ ft.Designed much of the engine, intertank, tanks, ground support equipment for Darcy I

Newberg, Oregon, United States

Test engineering intern. Designed, manufactured, ran, and reported on many tests of current and future product. Tests generally consisted of designing a fixture, machining/building the fixture, programming a PLC to control the test, integrating components such as motors, pneumatics, 6-DOF arms, sensors, etc., then running the test. Many were lights-out tests with failure detection designed to run hundreds of thousands of cycles over weeks, and pause in case of failure, or generate data on the… Show more Test engineering intern. Designed, manufactured, ran, and reported on many tests of current and future product. Tests generally consisted of designing a fixture, machining/building the fixture, programming a PLC to control the test, integrating components such as motors, pneumatics, 6-DOF arms, sensors, etc., then running the test. Many were lights-out tests with failure detection designed to run hundreds of thousands of cycles over weeks, and pause in case of failure, or generate data on the failure of a sample. Following the tests, I generated professional reports both for internal documentation and to satisfy regulatory requirements pertaining to medical devices. Samples were often mechanical joints, wiring/tubing running through mechanical joints, or fluids components such as valves, flow controllers, etc. Show less

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Student on Agricultural Robotics Team developing method to autonomously prune peach trees• In charge of developing “branch sorting” algorithm to identify and sort tree branches from point-cloud scan of tree, informing autonomous pruning decisions with 97.3% correct branch type assignments. • Worked with software team to develop virtual reality tree pruning simulator to gather training data to inform sorting algorithm. • Worked with software team to develop quantitative ray-casting… Show more • Student on Agricultural Robotics Team developing method to autonomously prune peach trees• In charge of developing “branch sorting” algorithm to identify and sort tree branches from point-cloud scan of tree, informing autonomous pruning decisions with 97.3% correct branch type assignments. • Worked with software team to develop virtual reality tree pruning simulator to gather training data to inform sorting algorithm. • Worked with software team to develop quantitative ray-casting shadow simulation to optimize light absorption after pruning Show less

Newberg, Oregon, United States

Design engineering intern for dental equipment company. Worked with design engineers to mitigate supply chain impacts on production, developed CAD of products for reference by customer service personnel during work-from-home order, designed cost reduction replacement for die cast part.