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Frank Centinello
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  • Tempe, AZ
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Occupation:
Analyst, Aerospace Engineer, Educator, Student, Other
Company:
Arizona State University, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Science Operations Team
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
geophysics, geodesy, oceanography, geography, renewable energy, navigation, and aerospace engineering.
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
C++, Fortran, HTML, Javascript, SQL, Other
About Me:
Like so many, I was inspired by the space program. I saw myself an explorer in a world of possibility. This prompted my decision to become an aerospace engineer. Even though I finished my undergrad degree and focused on navigation for my grad. work, I began to realize that if we are to succeed in colonizing space, we are not only going to have to be great engineers, but great scientists, politicians, protectors of the environment, theologians, and, perhaps most importantly, educators and mentors.

So I'm a person with multiple interests who's constantly questioning and defining how my work is important to me and what implications it has for the world around me. I know I can only make a small difference at best, most of the time. That's not in question. My true internal debate lies with whether I will have satisfied my goal of becoming an explorer and whether I have made the terrain I crossed accessible to those who will make later discoveries.

The result? I decided to continue to grad school because I learned that I could study in Germany. So there, I started my MS in aerospace engineering with a concentration on Kalman filtering for the GPS/INS navigation problem. This was a program in conjunction with my home institution, the University at Buffalo, where I studied estimation for nearly three years. I also was fortunate enough to intern at NASA's Glenn Research Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Hanscom AFB and Maui Space Surveillance sites. My research spanned estimation related to turbofan fault detection, radio occultations, and satellite detection and identification.

For my PhD, I decided to switch majors. I applied to earth science programs to study geophysics and possibly geodesy. These fields, while utilizing many of the techniques and instruments of navigation specialists, offer the possibility of learning the science of Earth's formation processes. How cool is that?!

This is the juncture I currently find myself at: I am a research analyst for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera science operations team at Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration. I hope to enter school in Fall of 2009 to begin my PhD in geophysics.

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At 5:25pm on February 6, 2009, Frank Centinello said…
Aloha nui loa!
At 11:51am on January 19, 2009, Moriba Jah said…
Aloha...
At 10:40pm on January 9, 2009, Mika Leuck said…
Welcome Frank! I'm sure Moriba is happy to have another Aerospace Engineer in the community.

The FAQ is a good place to learn about the site. You may want to join some of the interest groups such as Renewable Energy and C/C++ Developers.

We hope you find TechHui useful and invite others. Have a great weekend!
 
 
 

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