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Fernando Mier-Hicks

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91101

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Fernando Mier-Hicks, PhD

Robotics Electrical Engineer

Biography

Fernando Mier-Hicks holds a MS and PhD in Aerospace engineering from MIT. During his graduate studies, he developed a new type of characterization testbed for electric micro-thrusters and was involved on two CubeSat missions.
Fernando joined JPL’s Robotic Actuation and Sensing group in 2017. He is the cognizant engineer of the Ground Support Equipment used on the Sampling and Caching System of Mars 2020. He also developed the gravity offload system for Mars helicopter. Currently he is training as a Rover Planner for Mars Science Laboratory.

Education

PhD in Aerospace Engineering. MIT 2017
MS in Aerospace Engineering. MIT 2014
Bs in Mechatronics Engineering. Monterrey Institute of Technology Mexico 2011

Publications

2023
  1. F. Mier-Hicks, H. Grip, A. Kalantari, S. Moreland, B. Pipenberg, M. Keennon, T. Canham, M. Pauken, E. Decrossas, T. Tzanetos, J. Balaram, "Sample Recovery Helicopter," 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, pp, 1-11, 04 March 2023.
2022
  1. F. Mier-Hicks, A. Buscicchio, T. Pailevanian, M. Elsdon, A. Sirota, E. Aguliar, S. Brooks, and D. Levine, "Electrical Ground Support Equipment for the Sampling Caching System of the Mars 2020 Rover," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-12, 05 March 2022.