What the heck do I do? Well I'm the resident electronics engineer in the ISF laboratory at UMR. I joined UMR with many years of industrial experience in such fields as automation, robotics and electronic manufacturing. I get to teach the laboratory sections of some courses in the ISF, design and build equipment used in various research projects and have done research in such areas as ‘Spool Sticking Diagnostics and Root Cause Analysis for Pneumatic Systems’.

Personally, I enjoy tinkering with home-made robots and wood-working. I recently obtained a small CNC controlled wood carving machine ( www.carvewright.com ) which has been occupying much of my free time recently. And, if for some odd reason this all seems terribly fascinating, I have included my resume below.

My resume:

Jeffrey T. Birt
Phone: (573) 341-6058
Email: birtj@umr.edu

SUMMARY
-19 years experience in service and design of electronic and electro-mechanical systems, including 4 years at the University research level.
-Certificate in Electronics Technology
-B.S. Interdisciplinary Engineering (in process).
-Part of a multidisciplinary research team at UMR, investigating topics such as Auto-ID technology and Prognostic maintenance.
-Much of my professional career has entailed interfacing with other members of a project team at various levels, such as customers, other firms, engineers, and shop personnel.
-Teach lab section of three courses: 324, 334, 344.
-Committed to continuous education and improvement.

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Computer skills:
-Programming: C, C++, Visual Basic, PLC, HMI (Wonderware), assembly
-CAD/CAM: AutoCAD, Inventor, MasterCAM, SurfCAM
-Office applications: Excel, Word, etc

Mechanical skills:
-Wide range of hands-on experience: lathe, mill, welder, plasma cutter and other pieces of shop equipment.
-Various drive systems: AC/DC, pneumatic, and hydraulic

Electrical skills:
-Circuit design and construction, soldering, de-soldering, rework
-Embedded control
-Test equipment, DMM, oscilloscope, strain indicator, hi-pot
-Data acquisition, PC based, stand alone, and custom circuits
-PLC’s, HMI’s, automated welding and cutting controls.

EMPLOYMENT

2002-Present Electronics Engineer
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
Electronics Engineer, Integrated Systems Facility Lab

2001-2002 Production Supervisor \ Equip. Maintenance
Digital Monitoring Products, Springfield, Missouri

1998-2001 Automation Technician
P.G.Walker, Springfield, Missouri

1994-1998 Service Manager
Progressive Business Systems, Springfield Missouri

EDUCATION

2002-current Interdisciplinary Engineering Program
University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri
(Taking classes while employed at UMR.)

1998-2002 Miller Electric Service Engineering I&II, OTC Daihen robot programming school, ABB robot programming school, Siemens Siplace programming school

1989-1998 Over 12 factory training schools on copiers\printers

1985-1987 Electronics Technology Program
Ohio HI-Point JVS, Bellefontaine, Ohio

PUBLICATIONS

SOYLEMEZOGLU, A., ZAWODNIOK, M.J., CHA, K., HALL, D., BIRT, J., SAYGIN, C., and SARANGAPANI, J. "A Testbed Architecture for Auto-ID Technologies", Assembly Automation (accepted in 2005, in-print for 2006).

Other Conference Papers (abstracts reviewed only):

SOYLEMEZOGLU, A., BIRT, J.T., SAYGIN, C., SARANGAPANI, J., TRIMBLE, D., and ROUSE, C., “Auto-ID Technologies and Solutions for Aerospace Manufacturing,” AEROMAT’05, Orlando, Florida, June 6-9, 2005.

CHA, K., SOYLEMEZOGLU, A., BIRT, J., ZAWODNIOK, M.J., FONDA, J., TAQIEDDIN, E.S., MILLSHARRIS, M.D., SAYGIN, C., SARANGAPANI, J., TRIMBLE, D., and SIEGEL, T., “A Testbed for Validation and Benchmarking of Auto-ID Solutions,” AEROMAT’05, Orlando, Florida, June 6-9, 2005.
Invited Presentations:

BIRT, J., Boehm, C., “Pneumatic Test-bed for System-level Prognostics”, Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems, IAB 11, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2006

Poster Presentations:

FONDA, J., ZAWODNIOK, M., BIRT, J., SARANGAPANI, J., and SAYGIN, C., “Pull-Type Tool Health Monitoring and Product Quality Verification using Wireless Sensor Networks,” Air Force Research
Lab, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug 14-17, 2006.

SARANTAKOS, T., MOHAN, D., BIRT, J., SAYGIN, C., and SARANGAPANI, J. “Online Quality Monitoring of Threaded Fasteners Using Sensor-Embedded Hand-Held Tools,” Integrated Systems Health Management Conference", Air Force Research Lab, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug 14-17, 2006.

Technical Reports and Editorship:

1. SAYGIN, C., BUYURGAN, N., ARASLI, B., and BIRT, J., “Fundamentals of Robotics – revision of FESTO workbook #081063,” University of Missouri-Rolla, April 2003.