Yankee Scientific: The Practice of Ingenuity
Senior Design Engineer
As senior engineer at Yankee Scientific, Karl is involved in the design and testing of energy related products. These included a number of self-powered kitchen and space heating appliances for the US Army, as well as a unique power generator for DARPA. Before joining Yankee, he was director of engineering at Holometrix, a small manufacturer of scientific instruments for heat transfer experiments and the measurement of material properties. Responsibilities included mechanical design of test chambers, system design of PC-controlled test equipment that included data acquisition devices, temperature controllers, lasers, high vacuum equipment, and mechanical refrigeration equipment. He was in charge of software development, production, documentation, and customer support. Karl received an R&D-100 Award in 1989 for the development of a thermal conductivity analyzer, and in 1990 for the development of a gas permeability analyzer.
Earlier in his career, as manager of the Thermal Instruments Group at Dynatech Corporation, Karl was responsible for the development and sale of the company's product line consisting of instruments for measuring thermophysical properties. Karl has an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hogere Technische School in the Netherlands.
In his spare time, Karl tends to the many needs of his extended family and contributes to the public discussion of energy.