Opto-Mechanical Design Engineer
Working at Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT, my contribution to the project is multi-threaded, from the design and construction of mechanical components for optical and infrared (OIR) to working together with fellow engineers, research scientists, and MIT faculty. Some of my principle responsibilities include the design of mechanical and opto-mechanical parts and assemblies, and static load and thermal analysi. Here, I also manage the fabrication and integration of parts and assemblies, through both in-house capabilities and vendor relationships.
Background
- M. Eng, Mechanical Engineering: Heat Transfer Tufts University 2014
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
Personal
Today, I am busy designing and creating astrophysics instruments. In my free time, I planning my next climbing trip or climbing around New England. Most recently, our group installed a prototype InGaAs camera at the Las Campanas Observatory in the southern part of the Atacama Desert in Chile. After our successful run on the DuPont Telescope, I was fortunate to travel down to Patagonia to attempt a technical ascent of Mount Fitz Roy in the Fitz Roy Massif.
Publications
- Gábor Fűrész ; Robert Simcoe ; Stuart I. Barnes ; Lars A. Buchhave ; Mark Egan ; Rick Foster ; Tim Hellickson; “WISDOM: the WIYN spectrograph for Doppler monitoring: a NASA-NSF concept for an extreme precision radial velocity instrument in support of TESS”. Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy
- Robert A. Simcoe ; Gábor Fűrész ; Mark Egan; Timothy Hellickson; Andrew Malonis; “A concept for seeing-limited near-IR spectroscopy on the Giant Magellan Telescope.”Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy
- Hellickson, Timothy. “Analytical Heat Transfer of a Porous Media: An Analysis of the Thermal Characteristics of Synthetic Lightweight Aggregate” Tufts University: ProQuest, 2014. 85. Print.
- Swan, Christopher, Dr., Kurt Paterson, Dr., and Timothy Hellickson. "Engineering Pathways Study: Lessons Learned in Its Development and Implementation." American Society of Engineering Education (2014): 1-14. Web.