Trevor Clark
Electrical Engineer

I am a native of Bozeman, and I love the outdoors and living here. I am majoring in Electrical Engineering. My areas of interest are Controls, Microcontrollers, and Power, though I am interested in just about everything. During an internship with the sponsor of this project, BOREALIS, I gained some valuable experience working with microcontrollers and doing my own PCB design. This experience has given me some of the skills I need to help my team complete this project. My contribution to this project is going to be primarily PCB design and for our project. I was recently accepted into Montana State University's Electrical Engineering Graduate program.

Tim Basta
Mechanical Engineer

Tim Basta is currently enrolled at Montana State University in the Mechanical Engineering department. He has been with Montana Space Grant Consortium in the BOREALIS department for 3 years. Tim is married, and has a 6 year old daughter. Tim recently accepted an engineering position with World View Enterprises, Inc in Tuscon, Az.

Scott Miller
Computer Engineer

Scott is a senior in the Computer Engineering program at Montana State University. A native to Montana, Scott was raised in rural Creston, Montana on his parent’s sheep farm. From an early age he was interested in all aspects of technology from robotics to space travel. Prior to coming to MSU, Scott worked as an IT professional after graduating from Flathead Valley Community College with an associate’s degree in information technology.

Scott has enjoyed working in MSU’s electronics and digital logic labs, and has been involved with Montana Space Grant Consortium for several years while attending MSU. He has participated in the MSGC BOREALIS summer internship and apprenticeship programs (2013-2015), the National Student Solar Spectrograph Competition (Best Spectrograph Design award), and recently became a student member of the MSGC advisory board. In his free time Scott enjoys flying remote control aircraft, mountain biking, kayaking, video and board gaming, paintball, target shooting and researching the latest technology developments.

Randy Larimer
Adjunct Assistant Professor - EE
Deputy Director - MSGC
Project Sponsor & Mentor

Mr. Larimer received his MSEE from Montana State University in 1982 and his BSEE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980.

Mr. Larimer is a Registered Professinal Engineer in the State of Montana.

Mr. Larimer is a Senior Member of IEEE and Past Chairman of the IEEE Montana Section. Mr. Larimer is currently the IEEE Montana Section Secretary and PACE Chairman.

Berk Knighton
Research Professor - Chemistry
Flight Director - BOREALIS
Project Sponsor & Mentor

Dr. Knighton is a research professor in the Montana State University Chemistry department. He received his bachelor's, master's, and PHD in Chemistry from Montana State University. His active area of research is urban air pollution.

Dr. Knighton has been the Flight Director for Montana Space Grant Consortium's BOREALIS program since 2006. In his spare time he enjoys fishing and recreating in Montana's great outdoors.