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The career in sequence.
Education, racing, the NIST years, the paper, and current work on one line. Filter by chapter, or open an entry for the detail.
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Montgomery College
A.S. Aerospace Engineering, with Honors: the first stage of the academic sequence.
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Aerospace engineering foundations at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, completed with honors in 2020 and carried directly into the Clark School program at Maryland.
University of Maryland
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Space Track, at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, concluding with a lunar rover capstone.
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The capstone rover concept had to hold together as a whole system: power, mobility, autonomy, and the realities of operating where no one can reach it.
Terps Racing: Formula SAE Electric
Member of the Low Voltage team on the student-built electric race car.
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An early education in whole-vehicle engineering: electrical and mechanical constraints competing for the same packaging space, inside a build-and-test culture.
NIST Engineering Laboratory
Five continuous years developing repeatable evaluations for response robots and small drones.
- PREP ResearcherJune 2020 – December 2023
- Robotics Research EngineerDecember 2023 – September 2025
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Procedures, field apparatus, machine-readable targets, CAD, experimental computer-vision scoring software, field administration, and technical reporting: one connected body of test-method work.
RoboCupRescue, ICRA, and IROS
More than one hundred quadruped mobility trials, plus contributed terrain concepts, at international robotics events.
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The 2024 championship arena was captured in CAD, including a metric 3D floorplan, so its geometry could be reconstructed at future venues.
Wildfire test adaptation
Led a NIST wildfire drone-response collaboration; adapted aerial-robot test methods for thermal identification, inspection, and suppression.
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Purpose-built thermal apparatus, including the Treefire Post, the Thermal Campfire Omni, and 3D-printed concentric-C acuity targets, together with a published paper.
IEEE CCWC wildfire paper
Published with shared first authorship: Alex Fraley, Ethan Nowery, and McCarthy Devine.
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Author order as published: Fraley, Nowery, Devine, Jacoff, Oh. Presented at IEEE CCWC 2025 in Las Vegas.
M.S. Data Analytics, in progress
Graduate study at the University of Maryland Global Campus, connecting measurement engineering to data, machine learning, and automation.
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Recent advanced coursework includes Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Deep Learning / Neural Networks, alongside SQL, data management, analytics, and visualization.
Independent engineering: Curiosell Systems
Current technical work spanning release engineering, robotics software, procedural simulation environments, computer vision, and edge and embedded systems.
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CURI release verification, DRONIEUS procedural simulation environments, experimental Unreal Engine 5.7 simulator work, JetBot Control, and edge and embedded prototyping.