John Bernardin has wide professional interests, covering basic and applied research integrated with practical engineering design related to thermal sciences, energy conversion, and manufacturing. His teaching experience includes assistant teaching while a postgraduate and teaching courses for the University of New Mexico.
As Lead Design Engineer and Instrument Manager of the Space and Atmospheric Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) since 2004, Dr. Bernardin's duties have included serving as lead engineer and instrument manager for a number of spacecraft instruments. His engineering tasks have included engineering analyses, hardware design and fabrication, and numerous types of experimental testing (thermal, vacuum, RF, mechanical, etc).
From 1998 to 2003, Dr. Bernardin held a similar position in LANL's Spallation Neutron Source Division, where he worked on the design of water cooling/resonance control and vacuum systems for several high-level research projects, including the Drift Tube and Coupled Cavity linear accelerator systems. From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Bernardin worked as a research/design engineer at Los Alamos.
Dr. Bernardin was awarded his PhD by Purdue University in 1996. His thesis topic was "Leidenfrost Point and Film Boiling Heat Transfer of Single Drops and Sprays." He received his MSME from Purdue in 1993 and his BSME from the University of Wisconsin in 1991.
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