About Ron Graham
Ron has maintained the Engineer's Companion since 1995, and is responsible
for gathering the information for each FAQ here, except for the Job-Hunting
Conventional Wisdom FAQ.
He has worked as an engineer, educator, and consultant and advisor to start-ups;
he's been in government, academia, small business and private industry. He
has expertise in control systems, dynamics, kinematics, business and technical
writing, teaching and course design. He has written an e-book, "Rhetoric for
Engineers," and his second, "start me up!," is on its way.
Here are some samples of his work:
- A Java applet to simulate the attitude control response of a launch vehicle
- A Java applet to visualize the 2-D motion of a flexible robotic manipulator
- A description of the equations of motion of a rocket treated as two lumped masses
- A description of the dynamics associated with two spacecraft in proximity operations
- A test report from GreyPilgrim, Inc., in which the company won a $450K award from the government
- A description of the dynamics of a falling spacecraft at terminal velocity
