http://www.mza.com General company news feed. Tue, 29 Aug 2009 10:13 MST 60 http://www.mza.com/Default.aspx#profiletab-news1 <p> MZA has teamed with the University of Notre Dame and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) on the Airborne Aero-Optics Laboratory (AAOL) project. AAOL aircraft testing will allow unprecedented insight into the nature of aero-optical disturbances for laser propagation from jet aircraft and allow for testing of advanced beam control technologies. MZA has primary responsibility for test modeling, simulation, and data analysis in the AAOL project. The University of Notre Dame has produced a <a href="http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/15632/">video</a> regarding this research. </p> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:11 MST http://www.mza.com/Default.aspx#profiletab-news1 <p> <b>Madison Cole</b> earned his M.S. degree from Northern Illinois University in 1997 in Electrical Engineering with a double emphasis in Digital Control Systems and Digital Signal Processing. He also holds a B.S. degree, earned in 1993, in Electrical Engineering also from Northern Illinois University. Previous to MZA, he worked for Boeing-SVS in Albuquerque, NM for over 12 years as an Associate Technical Fellow, where he led simulation and modeling efforts for various DoD directed energy systems. He was a key contributor to the Air Borne Laser program, and author of many of the Fire Control algorithms used in the ABL primary missions. Over the course of his tenure at Boeing his teams developed simulation architecture tools that were subsequently leveraged by multiple programs from small tactical systems to multi-billion dollar weapon systems. Prior to SVS, he was employed at Reed-Chatwood in Rockford, IL where he was successful in converting their multi-million dollar line of textile capital equipment to PC and PLC control. </p> <p> <b>Matthew Heino</b> holds degrees in physics from Kent State University and Western Illinois University. He has worked in electro-optical engineering and science for 12 years with Lawrence Livermore national lab, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing. He is an experienced horseman in the natural style, and volunteers at Walking in Circles Ranch rehabilitating abused and neglected horses. What's left of his time is used in astronomy, mostly astrophotography and satellite tracking, or searching for asteroids and comets. </p> <p> <b>Gideon Robertson</b> earned his B.S. degree from New Mexico State University in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from the University of New Mexico. His graduate studies were focused on solid-state physics while his thesis involved modeling physical phenomena seen in unique devices fabricated in Sandia's CMOS process. Gideon comes to MZA from Sandia National Laboratories where he primarily designed embedded systems, mixed-signal discrete electronics, FPGAs, and more recently, mixed-signal ASICs. </p> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00 MST http://www.mza.com/Default.aspx#profiletab-news1 <p> A bio for <b>Cammie</b> will follow shortly. </p> Wed, 01 Sep 2009 10:43 MST http://www.mza.com/Default.aspx#profiletab-news1 <p> The new MZA website went live today. Please send any comments regarding the design and/or functionality to Laura Korte (ABQ). Employees can submit bug reports via Mantis. </p> Tue, 29 Aug 2009 10:13 MST