The laboratories of Drs. Jean-Michel Mongeau and Bo Cheng at Penn State University are seeking to hire a part-time technician for a project to develop new instrumentation to study animal and robot flight. This position would be ideal for a post-bac student seeking research experience in instrumentation development for quantitative analysis of flight and in preparation for graduate school.

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The position is available immediately.

Job Duties:

• Design, assemble and install custom hardware to study insect, bird and robot locomotion
• Code and adapt software in Python to install a real-time 3D tracking system using multiple high-speed cameras

Requirements & Qualifications:

• B.S. or higher in engineering, computer science or physics preferred
• Knowledge of Unix and programming in Python preferred

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