Bio

Paul Mirel has been MICA’s Engineer in Residence for six years, helping dozens of students to engineer their works in exciting and innovative ways. Paul works full time at NASA* as a Space Instrument Systems Engineer and as the Senior Educational Technology Engineer for the NASA Space Sciences Education Consortium (NSSEC).

*Paul Mirel is employed by Hexagon US Federal on the NASA SESDA contract.

Schedule

To schedule an appointment, send Paul an email at pmirel@mica.edu .

Areas of Interest and Expertise

  • electronics
  • microcontroller programming (CircuitPython)
  • electromechanical devices
  • mechanisms
  • structural
  • process engineering
  • Science-art exploration
  • Science questions

Resources

Mechanical Jellyfish!!!!

I think that you should have some links to things on the internet.
Sand patterns on audio vibrated plates are called chladni plates


Sometimes I write code.

this is some code 
that I really want to share 
with you

Sandwich Manifesto

sandwiches are important

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Sketchpad

This area is where I’ll leave notes and other temporary items.