Rickey Caldwell is a graduate of Michigan State University, where he has earned his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Merrimack College, where he began as an adjunct professor in 2015. He has worked as senior mechanical engineer at MITRE Corp.’s National Security Engineering Center, supporting the acquisition, design and analysis of complex systems for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. military, and as an analyst at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Rickey has published in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, and presented at 10 conferences.