ECE alumni spotlight: Jeff Karper ’06 ’08G

Jeff Karper ’06 ’08G believes it is important to support the success of others.

The Lehigh electrical engineering alum is a sensor hardware engineering manager for Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems. In this role, he leads an organization of electrical and computer engineers in product and technology development for multifunction sensors supporting ground, air, and sea-based systems.

Good ’83 leads guidance, navigation, and controls team for NASA’s Lucy mission to Trojan asteroids

GPS and other modern technologies have long since replaced the sextant, but the concept of “navigating by the stars” hasn’t gone anywhere but up. 

To outer space, that is.  

Take it from mechanical engineering alum Philip Good ’83, who is leading the guidance, navigation, and controls (GN&C) for NASA’s Lucy mission, which launched in October 2021. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids, or primitive asteroids orbiting in Jupiter’s path. 

TE Profile: Jake Puzycki

Changemaker: Jake Puzycki

  • Maker Educator and Robotics Instructor, MetWest High School (Oakland, CA)
  • M.Eng., Technical Entrepreneurship, Lehigh University, 2015
  • B.A., Physics, Lehigh University, 2014

TE Profile: Katelyn Noderer

Entrpreneurial catalyst: Katelyn Noderer

  • Associate Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stanford Graduate School of Business (Stanford, CA)
  • M.Eng., Technical Entrepreneurship, Lehigh University, 2013
  • B.A., Psychology and Design Arts, Lehigh University, 2009

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