Conor Cullinane, PhD

Conor Cullinane, PhD

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
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Experience

  • Pirouette Medical Inc. Graphic

    Pirouette Medical Inc.

    Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

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    Harvard Medical School & MIT & Johnson Space Center

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Baker House

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Gulf Coast Wing - Houston, TX

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    Johnson Space Center - Houston, TX

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    Boston, MA

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    Applied Aerodynamics Laboratory - Clarkson University

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    Laboratory for Intelligent Automation

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graphic

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    Activities and Societies: Sigma Gamma Tau: Aeronautical Engineering Honor Society -President ( 2012 ) -Secretary ( 2011 ) -Treasurer ( 2010 ) Tau Beta Pi: Engineering Honor Society -President ( 2012 ) -Initiation Chair ( 2011 ) Student Ambassador Academic Advisory Committee -Ambassador ( 2012 ) Honors Program -HP200 Class Mentor ( 2012 ) The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi: ( Initiated Spring 2012 )

    The Clarkson University educational experience is designed to provide talented and ambitious students with the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve positions of leadership within their chosen profession. The combination of Clarkson’s strong technologically rich curricula and state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities, coupled with an unparalleled commitment to a friendly learning environment and to students’ personal development, uniquely prepares Clarkson graduates to excel in…

    The Clarkson University educational experience is designed to provide talented and ambitious students with the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve positions of leadership within their chosen profession. The combination of Clarkson’s strong technologically rich curricula and state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities, coupled with an unparalleled commitment to a friendly learning environment and to students’ personal development, uniquely prepares Clarkson graduates to excel in their chosen professions and to lead rewarding and creative lives.

Courses

  • Advanced Engineering Mathematics

    MA330

  • Advanced Experimental Methods in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

    AE401

  • Aerodynamics

    AE425

  • Aeronautical Engineering Seminar

    AE200

  • Aerospace Biomedical and Life Support Engineering

    16.423

  • Aircraft Design 1 and 2

    AE450 and AE451

  • Aircraft Performance and Flight Mechanics

    AE429

  • Aircraft Structural Analysis

    AE350

  • Anatomy and Physiology 1 and Lab

    BY471 and BY473

  • Applied Linear Algebra

    MA339

  • Biochemistry 1

    BY450

  • Biology 1 and Lab

    BY140 and BY142

  • Biology 2 and Lab

    BY160 and BY162

  • Calculus 1 and 2 and 3

    MA131 and MA132 and MA231

  • Cardiovascular Pathophysiology

    HST.090

  • Design of Aircraft Structures

    AE458

  • Design of Propulsion Systems

    AE427

  • Electrical Science

    ES250

  • Elementary Differential Equations

    MA232

  • Experimental Methods in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

    AE201

  • Experimental Methods in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering 2

    AE301

  • Fluid Mechanics

    ES330

  • Gas Dynamics

    AE431

  • General Chemistry 1 and 2

    CM131 and CM132

  • General Chemistry 2

    CM132

  • General Statistics

    STAT282

  • Human Functional Anatomy

    HST.010

  • Human Pathology

    HST.030

  • Human Systems Engineering

    16.453

  • Intro to Biomedical Rehabilitation Engineering and Science 1 and 2

    BR200 and BR400

  • Intro to Engineering Design

    AE212

  • Intro to Engineering Use of Computer (MATLAB)

    ES100

  • Materials Science and Engineering 1

    ES260

  • Mechanical Vibrations and Control

    AE455

  • Molecular Medicine

    HST.140

  • Numerical Methods

    MA377

  • Organic Chemistry 1 and 2

    CM241 and CM 242

  • Organic Chemistry Laboratory

    CM244

  • Physics 1 and 2

    PH131 and PH132

  • Principles of Microeconomics

    EC150

  • Radiation Biophysics

    HST.560

  • Renal Pathophysiology

    HST.111

  • Rigid Body Dynamics

    ES223

  • Special Topic: Biomechanics

    ME380

  • Stability and Control of Aero Vehicles

    AE430

  • Statics

    ES220

  • Strength of Materials

    ES222

  • Structural Mechanics

    2.080

  • Thermodynamics

    ES340

  • War in Ancient Rome

    HIST341

Projects

  • Introduction to Clinical Medicine II - Aerospace Medicine Specialty

    As part of the second clinical rotation in the HST program (Introduction to Clinical Medicine II) there is a final period to gain experience in any desired specialty. I worked directly with NASA and MIT to develop and implement a Space Act Agreement to allow one student each year from the Bioastronautics Training Program to conduct their clinical specialty in Aerospace Medicine at NASA. My project during this period, within the Exploration Medical Capabilities Element at Johnson Space Center…

    As part of the second clinical rotation in the HST program (Introduction to Clinical Medicine II) there is a final period to gain experience in any desired specialty. I worked directly with NASA and MIT to develop and implement a Space Act Agreement to allow one student each year from the Bioastronautics Training Program to conduct their clinical specialty in Aerospace Medicine at NASA. My project during this period, within the Exploration Medical Capabilities Element at Johnson Space Center, was to interface between design teams and NASA physicians. The goal of the project was to coordinate medical subject matter expert opinions on standards to reduce deep space exploration risks based on precious operational experience and medical decision making. The NASA standards (NASA-STD-3001) document was in the process of being updated. I worked to collate the necessary input to make consensus recommendations for updates to that document. Specifically, I looked at suited operations and the standards that pertain to them.

  • Introduction to Clinical Medicine II

    Strengthens the skills developed in Introduction to Clinical Medicine I through a six-week clerkship in medicine at the Harvard-affiliated VA teaching hospital in West Roxbury, MA. Students serve as full-time members of a ward team and participate in longitudinal patient care. In addition, students participate in regularly scheduled teaching conferences focused on principles of patient management.

    See project

  • Associated Pilots - Pilot

    Associated Pilots is an aircraft ownership group of 15 members that own two aircraft, a Cessna 182Q and a Cessna U206G. Associated Pilots is the successor to a group started by some people from MIT in 1948. When solid-state radios became affordable, the group split over the issue of IFR equipped, or strictly VFR. We are the descendants of the IFR group. The VFR group has disappeared. I am currently working on obtaining my instrument rating in the C182Q.

    See project

  • Introduction to Clinical Medicine I

    Develop skills in patient interviewing and physical examination; become proficient at organizing and communicating clinical information in both written and oral forms; begin integrating history, physical, and laboratory data with pathophysiologic principles; and become familiar with the clinical decision-making process and broad economic, ethical, and sociological issues involved in patient care.

    See project

  • Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL)

    Other creators
    • Matthew Kane
    • Kenneth Visser
    • Pierre Marzocca
    See project

  • Design, Fabrication, and Implementation of a Vibrotactile Feedback System for a Lower-Limb, Powered-Knee Prosthetic Device

    The current state of the art in prosthetic limb technology provides bionic anthropomorphic limbs that can respond to efferent commands from the amputee’s neuromuscular system. However, the amputee’s ability to fully exploit the capabilities enabled by such prostheses is limited by the absence of high-fidelity means through which to convey somatosensory information about the limb to the user. In recognition of such limitations and in order to account for the inability to directly interrogate…

    The current state of the art in prosthetic limb technology provides bionic anthropomorphic limbs that can respond to efferent commands from the amputee’s neuromuscular system. However, the amputee’s ability to fully exploit the capabilities enabled by such prostheses is limited by the absence of high-fidelity means through which to convey somatosensory information about the limb to the user. In recognition of such limitations and in order to account for the inability to directly interrogate the afferent neural system associated with the missing limb, alternative mechanisms for providing somatosensory cues to the amputee user are currently being investigated. Due to the widespread commercial availability of powered upper-limb prostheses, the majority of the haptic display developments in prosthetics have focused on the upper extremity. However, the emergence of powered lower-limb systems with the capacity for volitional control by the amputee user has resulted in a need for somatosensory feedback not met by the haptic displays developed explicitly for upper-extremity systems. As such, the objective of my research project was the development of a vibrotactile display for a powered, transfemoral prosthesis and the experimental characterization of its effectiveness in improving the volitional control capability of the amputee user.

    Other creators
    • Kevin Fite

  • NASA Space Grant Research Project

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    Under-actuation is a term that describes that fact that a typical missile (or in our case a model rocket) does not have enough controls to match the number of degrees of freedom. The fins on the back of model rockets will stabilize it, but will not “control” the rocket. Since the fins are static, they simply generate an aerodynamic force applied at the aerodynamic center which counteracts rotations about the center of gravity with the static margin acting as the moment arm. The issue with this…

    Under-actuation is a term that describes that fact that a typical missile (or in our case a model rocket) does not have enough controls to match the number of degrees of freedom. The fins on the back of model rockets will stabilize it, but will not “control” the rocket. Since the fins are static, they simply generate an aerodynamic force applied at the aerodynamic center which counteracts rotations about the center of gravity with the static margin acting as the moment arm. The issue with this form of “control” is that it will direct the rocket in the path of greatest resistance as motion in that direction minimizes the aerodynamic force laterally across the rocket. If a wind exists, the rocket will experience weather cocking, and point itself into the wind. This is undesirable in a model rocket as it will result in a large travel distance in the air, ultimately leading to a touch-down far from the launch site, and far from any desired touch-down location. In order to properly actuate the system, especially for model rockets, an active stabilization technique is applied utilizing on board pneumatic thrusters near the nose cone of the rocket. These thrusters are part of a closed loop system that “senses" attitude deviations and corrects those deviations. The projectculminated in a public launch that demonstrates the effectiveness of the control system and its feasibility for model rocket applications.

    Other creators
    • Matthew Kane
    • Elijah Kapas
    • Nathan Torkaman
    • Bruce Alstrom
    • Kenneth Visser
    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Presidential Scholar

    President of the University

    Awarded upon graduation commemorating all of my eight semesters in which I achieved the distinction of Presidential Scholar.

  • Commendable Service Award

    Phalanx (Honor Society)

  • Most Promising Senior in Aeronautical Engineering

    Aeronautical Engineering Department

  • National Space Biomedical Research Institute Grant

    MIT, HMS, NSBRI, HST - MEMP

  • Most Promising Junior in Aeronautical Engineering

    Aeronautical Engineering Department

  • The National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi Induction

    Chapter 138, Clarkson University

  • Byrd Scholastic Scholarship

    New Hampshire Department of Education

  • Clarkson Merit Scholarship

    Clarkson University

  • Community Service Scholarship

    Rotary Club of Hampton, NH

  • Earl L. LaPointe '22 Memorial Scholarship

    Clarkson University

  • Elinore and Beecher Greenman '50 Share Direct Scholarship

    Clarkson University

  • Honors Program Scholarship

    Clarkson University Honors Program

  • Language Scholarship

    Jane Lynch

  • NASA Space Grant Scholarship

    NASA, Aeronautical Engineering Department (Clarkson University)

  • NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship

    NASA

Organizations

  • International Aerobatics Club

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  • Experimental Aircraft Association

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  • Commemorative Air Force

    Colonel

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  • American Society for Radiation Oncology

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  • Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

    Private Pilot

  • roCKeT Division

    Lead Design Engineer

  • Tau Beta Pi

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  • The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Graduate Student

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