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Program Director: Dr. Curtis O'Malley

Main Office: 575-835-6631

Email: omalley@dos5.net

Mail Documents & Correspondence to:

Mechanical Engineering Dept. Attn Dr. O'Malley
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801 USA

Our Program Team

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Dr. Curtis O'Malley

Robotics STEM Outreach Programs Director, and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. O'Malley is the founder and director of the Robot Combat Outreach effort at NMT. He organizes the K-12 robot combat educational workshops program, where middle and high school students can learn about robotics and engineering. Dr. O'Malley has also organized the NM robot combat league tournaments that are held in spring of each year.

omalley@dos5.net  

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Dr. Kooktae Lee

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Lee has been the faculty advisor for the NMT Mechanical Engineering Robot Combat Senior Design Teams since 2018. 

kooktae.lee@dos5.net 

 

Mason Kasprowicz

Program Developer

Mason is a founding member in developing the robot design for the NMT Robotic Combat STEM Outreach Team as well as in formulating the curriculum and workshops. He is looking forward to the future of the program and promoting STEM for the next generation.
Jett Emms

Jett Emms

Program Coodinator and AFRL STEM Mentor

Jett is a Program Coordinator for the NMT Robotic Combat program. He has been an undergraduate student at NMT since the Fall of 2018 and plans to pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at NMT around Explosives Engineering. Jett has been a part of the Robotic Combat team for almost a year and has enjoyed working with middle school and high school students who are interested in learning about STEM related topics.
 

Raechelle Sandoval

Robotics Mentor and AFRL STEM Mentor

Raechelle is a NMT Robotic Combat STEM Outreach Mentor. She is a senior in the mechanical engineering department. In the fall she will be pursuing and PHD in Mechanical engineering. She has been working for the program for a year now and is excited to continue to continue working with the program as more schools join.
 

William Lucker

Robotics Mentor and AFRL STEM Mentor

Will is a robotics mentor working for the Mechanical Engineering department. He works as a teaching assistant at New Mexico Tech and also as a mentor for the NMT Robotic Combat Stem Outreach.
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Jared Cannon

Robotics Mentor

Jared is a robotics mentor working to develop the combat robotics program at NMT. He is also the team lead for a design team building a 3lb combat robot. After graduation in December of 2022 he plans to pursue a masters at NMT working with robotic systems.
 

Zoey Mancuso de Lopez

Robotics Mentor

Zoey is responsible for developing the introduction to robotics content.
 

Isabella Wells

AFRL STEM Mentor

 
 

Emma Nourse

Education Liason

Emma is excited to be the education liason working with the NMT Robotic Combat STEM Outreach Team.
 

Eleanor Rightley

PR Journalist

Eleanor is a PR journalist for the Mechanical Engineering Department and the NMT Robotic Combat STEM Outreach Team. She writes articles to promote and inform the public on current Outreach Team efforts and activities.
 

Destiny Crawford

AFRL Pathway Mentor

 
 

Keely Stockham

Mechanical Engineering Student

Former Robotics Mentor
 

Luke Strebe

Mechanical Engineering Student

Former Program Developer
 

Noah Johnson

Mechanical Engineering Student

Former Program Developer
 

Chris Rood

Alumni

Former Program Promotor
 

Lorena Velasquez 

Alumni

Former Program Promotor
 

Macs Brown

Alumni

Former Program Promotor