罗伯特·H. Lampereur 85

2022 Recipient of the Distinguished 校友 Award for Professional Achievement - 文理学院

Early in his career Rob Lampereur 85 realized he needed to work on projects that aimed for a higher purpose. 当时他正准备从威尼斯游戏大厅毕业, he sought out work in the aerospace industry inspired by the big picture objectives of space exploration. 直到今天，他仍然被他认为重要的事情所激励, which range from addressing climate change to supporting science education to maintaining heathy local communities and strong friendships.

While not always possible, Lampereur sought out opportunities that aligned with his sense of purpose. Examples of notable projects on which he was fortunate to contribute include the Hubble Space Telescope program, 开普勒太空望远镜, 以及臭氧制图和分析器套件(OMPS).

Lampereur began his professional career at Lockheed Martin working as a software engineer including 6 years of onsite support at a military base in Germany. 他在洛克希德公司工作了15年, his major focus was developing embedded flight software for three generations of scientific instruments for the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, Hubble is still taking pictures using software that he developed.

Working on the Hubble program remains a career highlight that positioned him for many future projects. Lampereur remembers the day he started working on a new camera that would be installed in Hubble during a Space Shuttle Servicing Mission. It seemed too good to be true and began a series of Hubble projects that spanned over 10 years of his career. His first project developed a new infrared camera called NICMOS. He was the specialist designing the software used for image data collection, 指令和遥测处理, 系统初始化, 以及故障处理. This was followed by the Advanced Camera for Surveys project, 宇宙起源摄谱仪, 最后, 第三代广角相机. While he started on the Hubble program as a software engineer, he moved into Software Project Management and eventually Systems Engineering.

Following his time at Lockheed Martin, Lampereur worked at Ball Aerospace & 技术集团. 直到2015年. 虽然, in addition to his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Carroll, he obtained a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Regis University in Denver. 与他为更伟大的目标做出贡献的愿望一致, he obtained a role as Software Systems Engineer on the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) sensor project, which was developed to ensure compliance to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Protection. The OMPS sensor remains part of the ongoing Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) operated by NOAA. OMPS监测臭氧层, which protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet light that damages DNA in plants and animals (including humans) leading to skin cancer and other problems. 保护地球仍然是兰佩尔的激情之一.

Lampereur’s tenure at Ball Aerospace intersected many other NASA and government satellite systems including the Kepler Mission, 到目前为止，哪一个已经找到了近5个,3000多颗确认的系外行星,500个行星系统. He was instrumental in the design of the fault protection system, 无论是在宇宙飞船上还是在地面上, to keep 开普勒太空望远镜 operational when not in contact with the Earth. 在鲍尔航空航天公司, he also organized the software effort on the Low Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility (LTMPF), which was an experiment destined for installation on the 国际 Space Station. Lampereur has served in a variety of other capacities and roles throughout his tenure at Ball. Before retiring as Chief Software Engineer and Staff Consultant, 他曾担任多个项目的系统工程师, 关键的卫星系统支持美国.S. 国家安全.

Not truly retiring, Lampereur has embarked on new professional journeys. He is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of The Stonington Group, 还有他的朋友和卡罗校友, 克里斯·托马斯84年, 为企业提供行业发展专业知识, 风险资本 & 私募股权公司和初创公司. 他也被吸引回到航空航天领域工作, now working as Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon Intelligence & 科罗拉多州奥罗拉的太空.

Outside his professional accomplishments, Lampereur engages with his community. 他在女孩公司等青年组织做志愿者. which encourages young women to pursue STEM-related professions. 另外, he has volunteered at organizations that help ensure at-risk youth graduate from high school and go on to trade school or college. He has also sponsored a Tibetan college student through the Tibetan Village Project and had the honor of meeting his student when he traveled to Tibet in 2015.

Despite living in Colorado, Lampereur remains active closer to home. 不想失去在卡罗大学建立的亲密关系, he and 克里斯·托马斯84年 acquired land adjoining Tom Lorenson’s '85 family homestead in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan soon after graduating. 他的Delta Rho Upsilon兄弟会的一群朋友, 包括他86年的弟弟里奇·兰佩尔, participated in building a cabin that hosts annual gatherings for all his friends and family to this day. 除了, he has joined his sister Sandy Orsted '82 in supporting the conversion of his hometown church near his family farm in Brussels, 进入比利时遗产中心, which is becoming a focal point for collecting artifacts and maintaining an archive of Belgian immigrant history for future generations.