Steven Rogacki

Office:

1111 SRB

Phone:

936-3104

Fax:

763-5567

Email:

rogacki@umich.edu

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research:

Time-to-digital conversion, instrument design

Skills:

• VHDL FPGA logic design
• Digital circuit design
• Analog circuit design
• Low voltage power design
• electrical engineer

Personal Introduction

• Flight Instruments
  • TIDI
  • Messenger-FIPS
  • GeoSTAR
  • ASPS (Precipitation collector)
  • DETMIT, LRR
  • ROSINA

Specializations and Research Interests

• Support development of both ground-based and space-based instrumentation.
  • Analog and digital circuit design
  • Software development, embedded system programming, and FPGA design.  Languages include C, C++, and VHDL.
• System design and specifications, Time of Flight circuit design, VHDL coding and test software development for the FIPS mass spectrometer instrument.
• Detection and measurement of static electric fields.
• Data acquisition and control of precipitation collectors.

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• Professional Engineer License
• Patents (Course concentration:  power systems, communications, digital electronics, instrumentation)
  • 4,906,926 - Proximity Sensor for Hostile Environments
  • 6,481,939 - Tool Tip Conductivity Contact Sensor

Publications

• Renno, N., et al., "A Miniature Sensor for Electrical Field Measurements in Dusty Planetary Atmospheres", Journal of Physics:  Conference Series 142, (2008).
• Ruf, C., et al., "Lightweight Rainfall Radiometer STAR Aircraft Sensor",  Proc. of the 2002 IEEE Inernational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Toronto, June 2002.
• Ruf, C., et al., Lightweight Rainfall Radiometer STAR Aircraft Sensor",  Proc. of NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, Pasadena, CA, June 2002.
• Tanner, A., et al., "Prototype Development of a Geostationary Synthetic Thinned aperture Radiometer, GeoSTAR", Proc. of NASA Earth Science Technology Conference, Palo Alto, CA, June 2004.