Education:
M. S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1991 B. S. ME, North Carolina State University, 1984
Experience:
Since joining EDTEK Inc. in 2000, Mr. Paul Horne has been responsible for both GaAs PV and thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system design, development, testing, and evaluation. He was a major contributor to a California Energy Commission program to develop and commercialize a hybrid solar/gas TPV system. He was responsible for the design and fabrication of major manufacturing equipment for solar concentrator dishes for the hybrid TPV system as well as the solar tracking system. He developed an optical ray tracing software model of the system and performed extensive tests and evaluations of the system. He has completed the mechanical design of two portable 500 watt diesel fueled TPV systems. He has led a test and evaluation program to evaluate the performance of these systems for the U. S. Department of Defense. He has also been responsible for software development to automate the controls of these systems and to automate the data collection systems on the EDTEK TPV testbed.
Between 1992 and 2000 he worked on two major projects for the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Test Systems Department of their manufacturing research and development section. The first project was the development of software to drive the specialized automated test equipment for the 777 airplane. The second project was development of flight simulation software for the Automated Flight Test (AFT) equipment used on the entire family of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Between 1992 and 1988 Mr. Horne was a manufacturing research and development engineer for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Company. He participated in the design and development of a robotic system used to produce airplane interior components, primarily responsible for the control software for the robotic system.
From 1986 to 1988 he was responsible for software generation and process planning for numerical controlled machines used in the production of airplane manufacturing tooling. Between 1984 and 1986 he was responsible for factory layout, support, and software maintenance of automated electronic assembly equipment at AT&T Network Systems.