Systems Engineering and Optical Design

Brian M. Sutin, Ph.D.

Skewray Research LLC
316 West Green Street
Claremont, California 91711-4915
(909) 593 - 3581 x4793

I am a Space Instrument Systems Engineer working for Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies Corporation. I specialize in systems engineering and optical design for remote sensing. I also do internal consulting on various terrestrial and space-based solar power applications for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne.

• Publications

Current Projects

• Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer
• Grating Spectrograph Designer Spreadsheet -- A Cool Online Toy

Previous Projects

• Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle -- The NASA Shuttle Replacement
• 1976 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce Electric Vehicle Conversion
• Orbiting Carbon Observatory -- NASA Satellite to Map CO₂ from Space
• MOE -- Multi-Object Echellette Module for IMACS
• MMTF -- Maryland-Magellan Tuneable Filter for IMACS
• IMACS@OCIW, IMACS@LCO -- Wide-Field Imaging Spectrometer for the Magellan Telescopes
• ESI@Lick, ESI@Keck -- Imaging Spectrometer for the Keck Telescopes
• DEIMOS@Lick, DEIMOS@Keck -- Wide-Field Imaging Spectrometer for the Keck Telescopes
• BIMA, MIRIAD -- Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Interferometer Millimeter Array

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