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3 Milan Ave Phone 617.899.8816
Woburn, MA 01801 Email jeremiah@ugcs.caltech.edu
Callsign KF6SIC
Jeremiah Smith
Objective Seeking employment in challenging electrical engineering position.

Experience
2/2001-Present RF Micro Devices Billerica, MA
Design Engineer
  • Design and test integrated power amplifiers and PA modules for wireless LAN applications.
    • Power amplifier, filter, matching network.
  • Design and test ICs for fiber optic data communications applications.
    • Limiting amplifier, transimpedance amplifier, laser driver.
  • Implement and use laboratory test and meaasurement systems.
    • Fiber alignment, laser controllers, digital communication analyzers, vector network analyzers, bit-error rate testers.
  • Use of Agilent ADS, Cadence, Protel, and AutoCAD software.
    • Circuit design and simulation, integrated circuit layout, prototype printed circuit board (PCB) design and modeling.
2000 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
Graduate Student Instructor
  • Microwave Circuits.
    • Topics: transmission lines, S-parameters, matching networks, power dividers, directional couplers, filters, mixers, and amplifiers.
  • Supervise student labs; give recitation lectures; grade homework.
2000 St. Paul's School Advanced Studies Program Concord, NH
Intern Teacher
  • Co-teach intensive four-week introduction to engineering class.
  • Serve as dorm supervisor, counselor, and coach.
1999-2000 California Insitute of Technology Pasadena, CA
Teaching Assistant
  • Principles of Microprocessor Systems.
    • Topics: asssembly language, proper coding and documentation techniques, and debugging tactics in the conxtext of an instructor-designed Intel 80188XL-based hardware system.
  • Microprocessor Systems Laboratory.
    • Topics: further develop assembly language, digital, design, and debugging skills in the context of a student-designed and -built Intel 80188XL-based digital audio recorder.
  • Introduction to Electrical Engineering.
    • Topics: complex math, Fourier series analysis, and basic circuits in the context of a series of labs using a student-modified FM radio.
1999 Hughes Space & Communications Co. El Segundo, CA
B. S. Engineering Student
  • Design, build, test, and tune C-Band (7-GHz) Low-Noise Amplifier.
1998 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
  • 21-MHz Class-E Power Amplifier.
  • Semifinalist in Perpall Speaking Competition.

Education
Fall 2000 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
  • Electrical Engineering coursework:
    • Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, Solid State Microwave Circuits.
1996-2000 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
  • B. S. Electrical Engineering.
  • Electrical Engineering coursework:
    • Analog Electronics, Principles of Microprocessor Systems, Microprocessor Systems Laboratory, Fundamentals of Energy Processing Systems, Analog Project Laboratory, Introduction to Linear Systems, Introduction to Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing, Introduction to Physics of Semiconductors and Semiconducting Devices, Communications Systems Fundamentals, Application of Remote Sensing in the Field, Optoelectronics and Optoelectronic Devices, Experimental Projects in Electrical Engineering, Microprocessor Project Laboratory, Microwave Circuits and Antennas.
  • Physics and Applied Physics coursework:
    • Classical Waves, Quantum Mechanics and Wavefunctions, Solid-State Electronics for Integrated Circuits.
  • GPA 3.6/4.0.
Fall 1999 St. John's College, Cambridge University Cambridge, UK
  • Physics and Electrical Engineering coursework:
    • Electrodynamics and Special Relativity; VLSI Design, Technology, and CAD; Optoelectronic Technology; Electronic Circuits.
Skills
Electrical Engineering
  • Analog design
    • High-speed integrated circuits.
    • Hybrid microwave circuits.
    • Power amplifiers.
    • FM links: VCOs and PLLs.
  • Digital design
    • Descrete and programmable logic devices.
    • Microprocessors and microcontrollers.
  • Controls
    • Linear systems, LaPlace and Fourier transforms, Bode plots.
    • Feedback theory and implementation, circuit and system level.
Programming Languages
  • C, C++, Assembly, PALASM, Pascal, HTML.
Software
  • Circuit design and simulation: Agilent ADS, Cadence, HSPICE, Puff.
  • Integrated circuit layout: Cadence.
  • PCB Design: Protel, Puff.
  • CAD: AutoCAD.
Mechanical
  • Machine shop: can use drill press, milling machine, lathe.
  • Experience with small engine maintenance and repair.
Hobbies Walking, hiking, reading, basketball, and cooking.