Amber Gray

Amber Gray

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  • About me

    PhD Student at Blekinge Institute of Technology

  • Education

    • San Jose State University

      2008 - 2013
      B.S. Mechanical Engineering

      Activities and Societies: ASME, AFE, SAE, ASHRAE

  • Experience

    • NASA Ames Research Center

      Aug 2010 - May 2011
      Senior Project Group Member

      Panel Test Facility Tilt Table Re-design• Co-designed, fabricated, and analyzed pneumatic system for a half-scale, proof of concept, model support system for an arc-plasma facility• Collaborated with diverse student team to write technical reports and gave presentations on design evolution of pneumatic system, thermal analysis, and control systems

    • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

      Jun 2012 - Mar 2013
      SULI Intern

      Instrumentation Research in X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy (XCS) at the Linac Coherent Light Source• Designed (conceptual) an inline spectrometer as permanent optics for the XCS Instrument • Assisted engineers in mechanical and controls systems troubleshooting for XCS Instrument maintenance and diagnostics during experimental runs • Created schematic drawings using AutoCAD for XCS Instrument scientific papers

    • SETI Institute

      Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
      Engineering Physics Research Assistant

      Experimental research in Earthquake Science • Assisted in design of experiments: integrating instrumentation hardware for electromagnetic and acoustic science studies on rocks and ice• Designed, fabricated, and performed mechanical set up for various earthquake research experiments • Managed data acquisition system based on specific needs of each experiment using NI LabVIEWsoftware

    • Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

      Sept 2013 - Apr 2014
      Guest Researcher

      Engineering Physics ResearchThis was a specialized continuation of my earthquake research at The SETI Institute.• Performed acoustic and electromagnetic science studies on damaged materials, rocks specifically• Managed international collaborations with colleagues at NASA Ames and local Swedish universities • Performed statistical analysis of short term solar storm earthquake patterns using Caltech’s ACE EPAM data

    • Blekinge Tekniska Högskola

      Aug 2014 - now
      PhD Student

      (On educational leave) Proposed thesis:Nonlinear acoustics applied to nondestructive testing (NDT) on planetary materials

    • Sigma Technology Group

      Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
      Information Technology Engineer
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