Dr. Platt joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2003. He has more than fifteen years of experience developing a variety of optical, electrical and mechanical systems for use in extreme environments. Dr. Platt has studied at NASA/Ames Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is a veteran of more than a dozen technical field projects at the South Pole, and in Greenland and the Alaskan Arctic.
