Staff Profile

Frederic Jaffre

Preferred Name: Frederic Jaffre

SENIOR ENGINEER

APPLIED OCEAN PHYSICS & ENGINEERING

Email: fjaffre@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3502

Office: BIGELOW 308 

Address:
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,   Mail Stop 10
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

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Lab/Group Site: http://www.whoi.edu/sites/remus

Education

M.S. SeaTech, Toulon (France), 2003, Electrical Engineering

Research Statement

More than 15 years of experience in the design of AUVs, acoustic ocean instruments, overall underwater systems based on low power analog and digital design, using Orcad schematic and firmware coding (DSP, PIC, x86) and Matlab simulations. Maintain accurate bills of materials and process sheets, write engineering reports, and work with manufacturing and operator on the field to trouble shoot board and system level problems.

Research Interests

Compact electronic and electro-mechanical designs for AUV and underwater instrumentation. Most work done in control systems; analog and digital electronics; signal processing; acoustic communication; overall underwater system design.