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David Boprie

Senior Electronics Technician

Email: boprie@umich.edu
Telephone: 764-6578
Fax: 763-5567
Office: 1136 SRB
Education:
  • Associate Degree Electronics Technology - Washtenaw Community College
  • Associate Degree Digital Technology-WCC
  • Associate Degree General Education-WCC

 

Research:

NASA flight electronics fabrication and custom magnetics components.

Skills:

  • Mechanical fabrication
  • Electronic fabrication
  • Flight Instruments, most recent, SAM Electronics  and custom magnetics fabrication and testing
  • Academic Technical Support for EECS 430 Radiowave and Link Design, AOSS Magic Bus hardrware engineering support, AOSS 584 high altitude balloon consultant

Specializations and Research Interests

  • Skills include NASA flight quality electronics and mechanical fabrication, prototyping, testing, documentation and engineering field support. 
  • Builder of complex custom magnetics components. 
  • Teaching assistant for the EECS 430 course in Radiowave Propagation and Link Design. 
  • I provide engineering/tech support for the AOSS Senior Design course with Magic Bus and consultation with others.

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

  • NASA Goddard/JPL/UM SPRL hand solder training
  • Goddard/JPL Conformal Coating training with instructor certification
  • Familiar with AutoCad, Inventor and SolidWorks applications
  • Learn to Return Arctic Survival School with Wilderness Medicine/CPR/Rescue Breathing
  • Field skills, Aviation/Bear Safety
  • SOLO Wilderness Medicine and Red Cross Certifications
  • US Antarctic Survival School, Snowcraft I McMurdo Station
  • EECS/ GG Brown machine shop training classes on drill press and cutting, lathe, and Bridgeport
  • Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Non-teaching staff
  • Group achievement awards for several satellite projects
  • NSF and Navy Antarctic Service medals
  • SPRL merit awards 9/88, 2/90, 5/91
  • Five FCC licenses (Amateur Radio Novice, Technician, General, Advanced, and Extra Class)

Publications

A Hot Afternoon In Greenland was published in the September 2000 issue of Amateur Radio Relay League Journal.  While on remote tech support assignement of a UM AOSS space weather project in Greenland, I operated satellite amatuer radio from central Greenland. This was probably a first for radio operations from Greenland.

 

Updated: 2009-09-15


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