James Noll

James R. Noll is a highly skilled individual with a strong background in research and development of high altitude, lighter than air vehicles, payload integration, and sensors for space and ultra high vacuum environments.

He is an expert in designing, analyzing, prototyping, building, and testing electromechanical and robotic systems.

Proficient in creating mechanical parts, assemblies, and drawings using SolidWorks/ProE, as well as static and dynamic structural analysis with ANSYS Workbench.

Possesses graduate study experience in embedded systems, including synchronous and asynchronous serial communications, embedded system programming in C and assembly for microcontrollers.

Highly experienced in creating dynamic system simulations using MATLAB and Autolev, and proficient in Microsoft Office products.

Areas of expertise include automation, budgeting, customer relations, documentation, engineering, mathematics, new product development, physics, pneumatics, presentation skills, proposal writing, research, mechatronics, dynamics, microcontroller, biomechanics, sensors, actuators, CAD, SolidWorks, ProE, COSMOS, ANSYS, FEA, MATLAB, C, and FORTRAN.

James pursued a Master of Science (MS) in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University.

He has held positions such as Principal Engineer and former Senior Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute, Independent Contractor at EControls, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student, and Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute.