Peter Staritz

Department Chair and Associate Professor of Physics & Engineering

I Serve in...

Physics & Engineering Department

Education

• PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
• BE, Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Career Accomplishments

11 years industry experience—Contributed to the development of self-driving vehicles, drones, sensors, and warfighter-robot interfaces.

3 years missionary experience—Oversaw the construction of a hospital in southeast Asia.

Featured Scholarship

P. Staritz, J. McClurg, C. Miller, S. Wozniak, M. Schlenker. "Mud Dauber: Prototype of the Mobile Gantry Architecture," Int. Symposium on Robotics and Automation in Construction. July, 2022

W. Whittaker, P. Staritz, R. Ambrose, B. Kennedy, S. Fredrickson, J. Parrish and C. Urmson. "Robotic Assembly of Space Solar Power Facilities." J. Aerospace Engrg. Vol. 14, No. 2, April, 2001.

P. Staritz, S. Skaff, C. Urmson, W. Whittaker. "Skyworker: A Robot for Assembly, Inspection, and Maintenance of Large Scale Orbital Facilities." Proceedings 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol:4, 2001 pp. 4180-4185.

B. Anderson, J.E. Nealy, G.D. Qualls, P.J. Staritz, J.W. Wilson, M.-H. Y. Kim, F.A. Cucinotta, W. Atwell, G. De Angelis, J. Ware, A.E. Persans. "Shuttle Spacesuit (Radiation) Model Development." 31st International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), 2001-01-2368, SAE, 2001.

B. Anderson, J.E. Nealy, G.D. Qualls, P.J. Staritz, J.W. Wilson, M.-H. Y. Kim, F.A. Cucinotta, W. Atwell, G. De Angelis, J. Ware, A.E. Persans. “Shuttle Spacesuit (Radiation) Model Development.” 31st International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), 2001-01-2368, SAE, 2001.

About

I have a wife and four children. I enjoy spending time with family, learning taekwondo, reading science fiction, and playing chess. I became a believer when I was 16 and God has been growing me ever since.

I have a BE in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook and a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. I have been working in the engineering industry for over 15 years.

At General Dynamics Robotic Systems, I worked on a variety of technologies to support the individual warfighter. My early efforts looked into using drones to get soldiers and marines the information they needed in combat. I also led a team of engineers to develop a next generation LIDAR capable of building 3D maps for robotic systems.

At Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, I was the acting director of the Intelligent Robotics lab. In that role I led LM's robotics group in the capture and execution of multiple robotics programs including the DARPA Collaborative Operations in Denied Environments (CODE) program for which I was the Principal Investigator.

In 2015, my family and I were called to be missionaries in South Asia, serving a rural community there. I was responsible for managing the construction of a large hospital. I organized the work, performed quality management and designed hospital systems. In addition, I managed the emergency construction of two new wards on the old hospital to support a developing humanitarian crisis.

I love working at Taylor, educating the next generation of Christian leaders, and sharing my passion for serving the King of Kings.

I'm an instructor/student of taekwondo and model aircraft pilot.