Mechanical Engineer

Mark is a mechanical engineer who has built a foundation of expertise in structural design, analysis, and testing. He began his career in aerospace working on rockets and propulsion systems. 

Background

• MIT Kavli Institute since April 2014
• MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, 2014
• Orbital Sciences Corporation, Propulsion / Mechanical Engineer, 2008
• BS in Aerospace Engineering from Cal Poly, 2008

Personal

In his free time Mark enjoys taking pictures of things on earth and in space, riding his Suzuki SV650 through the prettiest parts of the northeast, and backpacking in Utah every chance he gets. 

Publications

• Pupil slicer design for the NASA-NSF extreme precision Doppler spectrograph concept WISDOM (Egan et al 2016, SPIE)