Undergraduate electrical engineers performing summer research have enhanced the real-time data collection system of one of their professor’s novel detectors to uncover some remarkable results. Over the past two summers at ___________ University students in engineering have been working on an innovative detector that has repeatedly produced results indicative of a real Machian like reaction force to inertia. Each summer (2018 and 2019) multiple students continued to make electrical enhancements and refinements to this novel instrument and its test protocol at the suggestions of reviewing scientists and their professor. In the most recent version of this instrument, real-time data collection appears to confirm that the Mach-Effect is real, directional and electromagnetic in nature. The device is able to observe an electromagnetic interaction of the Mach-Effect during incidents of significant local celestial matter alignment (such as the solar eclipse of July 2nd 2019). While some of these scientific results have been reported in multiple IEEE publications, this paper goes into detail as to the role that the students (undergraduate engineers) have played in the research and their work to use and refine the instrument as well as developing innovations to the protocol of the sensor array instrumentation. As a team, they helped their professor successfully continue the hunt to answer the query of whether a Mach-Effect (inertial reaction force) is actually detectable. Due partly to their efforts the science around this instrument is now quite robust and this novel device provides consistent, replicable and predictable results. During the summer research, the students got to apply much of their theoretical electrical engineering training to a real-world application in sensor arrays and instrumentation.
Professor Jansson currently is engaged as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bucknell University where he is responsible for pedagogy and research in the power systems, smart grid and analog systems areas. He is Faculty Director for the Center for Sustainability & the Environment at Bucknell as well. His specialties include grid interconnection of large scale renewable power systems, residential micro grids and research of the Mach Effect. He has previously worked for over a decade at Rowan University in their ECE department and in the power and consulting industries for over 3 decades.
Peter Kaladius is currently a junior in electrical engineering with a concentration in wireless systems. He worked on "Mach Field" research under Dr. Jansson's mentorship over 2018 and 2019 summers. He collaborated with two electrical engineering students to develop the experimental device in terms of data collection and accuracy and co-authored an IEEE paper describing the advancements in the device and the hypothesis.
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