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Specific design and construction capabilities

General experience	spectrograph and telescope design and construction optical, mechanical and electrical procurement, national and international support for most astronomical software and common PC and Mac applications
Mechanical section	CNC computer control mill with full range of tools; software to import CAD drawings Full range of manual lathes and mills Full welding capability for MIG/TIG for fabricating structures Clean room facilities Access to campus EDM machines and CNC lathes
Electronics section	ESD trained staff, construction to MIL-STD2000 Design of surface mount multi-layer (up to 8 layers) circuit boards Populate components on surface mounted boards Experience using latest AutoCAD, Protel, and CUPL software Software control of instruments and telescopes
Detector Science	Implementation & Control of low-noise CCD & IR arrays Characterisation and testing CCD and IR arrays Software and hardware developments for detector arrays. R&D effort to implement large focal plane arrays (SkyMapper) Design of low temperature cryogenic components for CCD & IR arrays Liaison with manufacturers for contractual specifications for detector arrays
Optical section	Class of optics, one-off or prototype work a speciality Optical design and evaluation, close relationship with world expert Australian optics designer Spherical optics up to 400mm, experienced in aspherics Large range of materials: optical glasses, fused silica, crystals, semiconductors, and metals Design and manufacture of standard coloured glass filters for astronomical use Optical thin film coatings can be arranged through expert Australian subcontractors In-house aluminium coatings for front surface mirrors up to 1.8m Experience using Zeemax software
Computer section	System-level support of Unix/Solaris (Sparc,X86), Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X platforms Programming expertise with C, C++, Fortran, Pascal, Java, Perl, and Tcl languages Software design and implementation for major instruments, including CICADA, WFI, and NIFS. Expertise in implementing and using major astronomical applications, including Image Reduction Analysis Facility (IRAF), Interactive Data Language (IDL), and Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS)