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Erin McDermott - Optical Engineer - LED Illumination Design at Spire Starter

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FREE Preliminary Optical Engineering Consultation

Free consultation to determine if optical engineering can potentially help your design or process development. Please be prepared with *specific* examples of "what is good" and "what is bad".

Engineering Consulting

Engineering advising beyond the free, preliminary consultation.

Possible discussion topics include: optical engineering, system analysis involving optics, root cause analysis of manufacturing issues.

Please bring all CAD, datasheets, questions, example images of the system, components, and test rigs, etc. with you to the meeting to share. Consultation time does not include time spent outside of the meeting to review data.

NOTE: This is the minimum consulting offering available. Consultation duration can last up to a maximum of 1.5 hours; partial refunds are not issued if client ends the appointment before the maximum allotted time.

Customized Odd Engineer Specialist Recommendations

If you're looking for extra, 1:1 help to figure out who the right niche hardware expert is to contact on OddEngineer.com, book this Zoom meeting to discuss your project with Erin McDermott. If there are relevant pros listed in the directory, she'll point them out.

Don't want to pay? Just use the platform's free sorting and search functions and directly contact the nerd you need, instead!

Coaching Session for Engineers

General career and education advice/coaching on how to grow your freelance career or small business.

Discuss your choice of: lead generation, branding, boosting perceived authority, contract negotiation, setting your rates, business admin, project management strategies, starting a business, or solving your specific issues!

Industry Insights Consulting

For those conducting market research on:
  • optical engineering software (aka optical simulation software or virtual optical prototyping software including LightTools, LucidShape, TracePro, Photopia, FRED, ASAP)
  • non-imaging optics vendors (reflectors/diffusers/lenses for illumination or IR sensors but NOT for imaging sensors)
  • any other tools/processes/methods/instruction regarding R&D of non-imaging optical systems

This meeting is for up to 1 hour maximum. Meetings ending before 1 hour will not be partially refunded.
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