Alec Gilroy

agilroy061@gmail.com | +1 815-409-9512

Education
Iowa State University Ames, IA
B.S in Electrical Engineering May 2023
GPA - 3.4/4.0

Employment Experience
Bureau of Land Management Winnemucca, NV
Wildland Firefighter, Seasonal Employment ~ 60 hours/week May 2021 - August 2022
- Staffed BLM Fire engines and remained on call after hours, responding to local wildfires
as needed. Performed daily, weekly, and monthly checks and maintenance on engines.
Traveled out of state to respond to national level wildfires.

Project Experience
Senior Design Project
Antenna Radiation Pattern Measurement System Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
- Worked as hardware engineer designing and 3D printing physical components for
system mounted to anechoic chamber.
- Researched technical specifications required for physical and electronic compionents.

Iowa State Rocketry Club

Avionics Team Member Fall 2020
- Researched optimal avionics microcontroller with both cost and technical specifications
in mind for the 2020-2021 rocket (Renegade)
- Designed backward compatible PCB for the microcontroller that collects sensor data
(acceleration, pressure, GPS, etc.), logs it to a microSD card, then transmits it to the
ground station.
Ames Laboratory Ames, IA
Undergraduate Research Collaborator ~ 15 hours/week December 2018 – December 2019
- Collected RF magnetic susceptibility data on materials by subjecting them to low
temperatures and taking measurements while samples transitioned into their
superconducting states.
- Repaired and installed the tunnel diode resonator probe (lab’s primary device for
gathering data at low temperatures).

Relevant Skills
- Programming and basic data analysis with Python and MATLAB
- C (expand)
- PCB design and layout with KiCAD
- Physical component design with SolidWorks and Fusion360