Stan Cohen

Dr. Stan Cohen helped to establish the CCT Museum Classroom and Development Lab. He graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. and M.S. in physics and has a Ph.D. in experimental atomic physics from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Cohen spent 20 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a physicist, controls engineer, and team leader at the LANSCE 800 MeV proton accelerator .He serves as the chief technology officer at BiRa Systems, in Albuquerque, designing data acquisition electronics for particle accelerators. Stan is the principal electronics designer for the CTDL’s Museduino project which develops circuit boards for the Arduino microcomputer ecosystem, specifically tailored to museum installations. Stan designed and built the microcontroller-based electronics for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) permanent Hall-of-the-Stars exhibit. The exhibit was awarded the 2014 Gold Muse award presented by the American Alliance of Museums.