Samuel Kirkpatrick Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Greater Melbourne Area

Melbourne, Australia

Bayswater North, Victoria, Australia

Bayswater North, Victoria, Australia

Bayswater North, Victoria, Australia

-Led team of engineers revolving around execution of projects for either new product development or customisation of ANCA's products to meet specific customer needs-Ran performance reviews every 6 months applying a rating rubric to all direct reports (Personal Business Objective reviews)-Assigned tasks and allocated resources to various projects. Dealt with scheduling conflicts-Kicked off documentation initiative-Organised training for team-Organised social events outside… Show more -Led team of engineers revolving around execution of projects for either new product development or customisation of ANCA's products to meet specific customer needs-Ran performance reviews every 6 months applying a rating rubric to all direct reports (Personal Business Objective reviews)-Assigned tasks and allocated resources to various projects. Dealt with scheduling conflicts-Kicked off documentation initiative-Organised training for team-Organised social events outside for work for team Show less

Bayswater North, Victoria, Australia

-Work with customers to realize their needs and customize ANCA's product offering to align with those needs.-Implement and troubleshoot EtherCAT field buses-Investigate issues to find the root cause of failure and enact plans to prevent similar failures in the future

Worked in a small team to automate industrial processes in the the food and pharmaceutical industries.Took lead role in designing an industrial control system for pharmaceutical equipmentWorked with warehouse tracking software to implement management of industrial enclosure manufacturing, stocking, and shippingContributed to all parts of automation life-cycle; quoting, design, production, installation, testing and validation.Consulted on various architecture and tuning… Show more Worked in a small team to automate industrial processes in the the food and pharmaceutical industries.Took lead role in designing an industrial control system for pharmaceutical equipmentWorked with warehouse tracking software to implement management of industrial enclosure manufacturing, stocking, and shippingContributed to all parts of automation life-cycle; quoting, design, production, installation, testing and validation.Consulted on various architecture and tuning optimization options for PID controllers.Used batching software to design recipes and area models for batching control systems. Show less

Worked in mobile robotics lab on Automatic Transport & Retrieval System mobility project (technology based alternative to van conversions for wheelchair bound people interested in driving non-assisted).Designed procedure and algorithm to automatically create a plant model of generic electric wheelchairs in order find relation between linear and angular velocities and motor control signalsDesigned improved PID motor controller algorithm for electric wheelchair scootersDesigned… Show more Worked in mobile robotics lab on Automatic Transport & Retrieval System mobility project (technology based alternative to van conversions for wheelchair bound people interested in driving non-assisted).Designed procedure and algorithm to automatically create a plant model of generic electric wheelchairs in order find relation between linear and angular velocities and motor control signalsDesigned improved PID motor controller algorithm for electric wheelchair scootersDesigned procedure and algorithm to automatically on-line tune a PID motor controller using Zeigler-Nichols approachDesigned and tested a 3-D LIDAR system based on a Hokuyo UTM-30LX 2-D LIDAR. Design included both hardware and software. Show less

Taught Recitations for ECE 081: Intro to Electrical Engineering to clarify material, answer questions, and solve example problems.Administered quizzes.Graded homeworks.Taught review sessions before major exams.

Organized presentations and demos about Sun products and distributed them to students and facultyMet with faculty to promote the integration of Sun products in Lehigh’s curriculumWorked with other Campus Ambassadors to think of ideas to help the success of the program

Designed and executed experiment to test thermal conductivity and electrical insulating properties of various materials at 4 KelvinCreated report summarizing findings of experimentsAutomated several experiments by using device drivers to interface with lab equipment in order to streamline experiment execution

Took lead role in developing a robust LabVIEW program for data acquisition during testing of a prototype MRI superconducting magnet.Designed and analyzed mechanical parts to assist with the testingWorked with National Instruments to spec out and update existing DAQ systems to meet new requirements

M.S., Electrical Engineering, 3.94/4.0

B.S., Computer Engineering, 3.65/4.0

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Pi, Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Rossin Junior Fellows, Formula SAE, IEEE

Minor, Psychology