Mechanical Engineering

Alexey Astanovitskiy - Chief Mechanical Engineer

• Mechanical Design of hardware and diagnostics for experiments.
• Mechanical Design of components for "Zebra" pulls generator and "Leopard", "Cheetah" lasers.
• Deploying of experiments on to "Zebra","Leopard" or "Cheetah".
• Manufacturing of prototypes and low scale production.
• Supporting ongoing experiments
• Design and maintenance of vacuum systems.
• Design and maintenance of vacuum control systems.
• Training and teaching students.

• Designing tool - ProE Wildfire parametric solid modeler





• Milling machines - (3) manual and one retrofitted CNC mills,
• Lathes (3)
• Drilling presses (3) and other small machine tools.
• Large Jobs - The NTF mechanical group can employ CNC lathe and CNC mill from the physics department shop at no extra cost
• Welding capabilities available for vacuum parts