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From 1996 to 2000, he was a Hardware Design Engineer with Compaq, where he specialized in board layout for high-availability redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controllers. His research interests include engineering education, robotics, and literate programming.Ms. Jane N. Moorhead, Mississippi State University Jane received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Her career has been all about hardware and software development; with NASA she designed cut-down systems for weather balloons and telemetry systems. Working for IBM, she designing modems and routers and had the opportunity to work at IBM Research Yorktown Heights on the first large-scale voice recognition system. Moving to Mississippi, Jane took a job at Mississippi State University teaching courses in Digital Design using FPGAs, Microprocessors course based on the PIC. She enjoys playing around with new designs for technology, presently playing with the Raspberry PI and Arduino as the basis for projects. Obtaining a GIS-Remote Sensing certificate, she is working on a design of a GPS-based system interfaced with a Raspberry PI. She now is working on a Broadcast Meteorology certificate to find ways to embed hardware into the geosciences curriculum. Always looking for fun educational instructional methods, Jane designed and taught BullyBots -a summer robotics camp for junior-high students; with her college-age students, she has held line-sensing robotics competitions and sea-perch competitions. She requires her students to utilize the development boards to control the robots. To improve the challenge for her students, and always hoping to get back to the water, she decided to embark on the Mate challenge.