Embedded AvionicsENGINEER PROFILE: End-to-End Sensor Development with Logos Technologies' Zach Currier Zach Currier likes working at a small company like sensor-focused Logos Technologies, where he's a mechanical engineer and hardware lead. Formal meetings are infrequent, and he can just pop into the office…
ProfilesDiscussing the Evolution of Autonomy with General Atomics' Chief Engineer Chen Li makes military drones easier and more efficient to control as chief engineer for automation and autonomy for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI). A Chinese immigrant who came to America…
CommercialEngineering Connected Avionics for the 2020s at Esterline CMC Adam Nelson’s experience playing and coaching hockey in high school and college still shapes the way he approaches his role today as a cockpit systems integration avionics engineer. The engineering manager of…
CommercialThe Unmanned Future at Rockwell Collins' Advanced Technology Center Brian Wolford would sit awake as a child and listen to the planes fly into and out of the nearby Pewaukee Municipal Airport — since renamed Chicago Executive Airport. The noise might have…
Embedded AvionicsAn Esterline Engineer's Approach to Designing Touchscreens, GNSS Esterline CMC is in the midst of developing both its next generation GNSS receiver, the CMA-6024, and a new cockpit display touchscreen technology that will disrupt the concept of the traditional…
ATM ModernizationControlling the World's Air Traffic with a Frequentis Tower Engineer Hannes Schrittwieser has traveled all over the world installing and customizing air traffic solutions for Frequentis. That travel is one of his favorite things about the company, which famously has flexible work hours…
CommercialFrom Air Force to Avionics: One AIT Engineer's Path Chris Hartley had to get his parents to sign a waiver so he could sign up for the U.S. Air Force at 17. Now a software engineer for Teradyne subsidiary Avionics Interface…
ProfilesFuture of Flight: Where Do Engineers See the Industry Headed? Since April 2018, Avionics has been profiling one aerospace engineer per week, providing a behind-the-scenes look at everything from the use of artificial intelligence to certify artificial intelligence to the certification of…
CommercialMeet Allegiant's First Flight Operations Performance Engineer Sai Ravuru was first inspired to pursue a career in aviation by the film Star Wars, when he watched the spaceships take off and land automatically. He is the first ever flight…
CommercialThe Future of Data: An APiJet Engineer's Perspective BJ Arun joined APiJet as a junior systems engineer when Aviation Partners and iJet technologies created the joint venture in January of this year to provide data services and analytics solutions to…