User:Robert.Chave

Robert Chave


Wikipedia Editor Status: Newbie as of 12/2007

Profession:

Applied Physicist - R&D Engineer. Design and development of precision instruments for industry, universities and national labs (e.g. NASA).

Education:

Technical: MIT (MSME) Tufts (BSME), RA's at Stanford and Technische Unviersitat Berlin

Art Schools: Cornell, Boston Museum School, Cleveland Institute of Arts

Citizenship: US Passport

Interests:

Technical interests: optomechanics, cryomechanics, mechanical design, fine mechanics, nanoscale motion, continuously deformable mechanisms with tunable stress-strain properties, smart materials, cryogenic actuators, goniometers for neutron beam application, ground and space based telescopes, stratospheric balloon gondola instruments.

Arts interests: *new* music, new forms of musical instruments, sonic sculptures, computer games for children with haptic elements

Usually found in:

Los Angeles, mostly. SD. SF. SLC. Vancouver. NYC (infrequent)

Previously found in

Boston / Cambridge, Faversham UK, Berlin, Canals of Holland (infrequent)

Web Page for Robert Chave:

www.chave.net

--Robert.chave (talk) 21:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)