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Engineering Working Group (EWG)

The main tasks of the EWG are to:

- develop a Systems Definition Document for the SKA based on the Science Requirements Document and interact with the SWG on this. Prime responsibility lies with the EWG.
- develop a roadmap of engineering activities for the international SKA community leading to reference concept, a reference design, and a baseline definition of the design
- oversee, coordinate, and stimulate where necessary, the design and development of all elements required for the SKA architecture and its location. Examples are the software requirements and the data transport and processing requirements.
- liaise with the individual technical developments taking place in the institutes
- review progress reports by design concept teams

Design concept / demonstrator / hybrid white papers

EWG documents
can be found here (password protected page)

EWG memos are available on the memo page

Current system white papers - exposure drafts

Members

S. Ananthakrishnan
National Centre for Radio Astronomy
India
Albert Jan Boonstra
ASTRON
The Netherlands

Tim Cornwell
Australia Telescope National Facility
Australia

Larry D'Addario
JPL
USA
Peter Dewdney (Chair)
SKA Program Development Office
David DeBoer
Australia Telescope National Facility
Australia
John Dreher
SETI Institute
USA

Steve Ellingson
Virginia Tech
USA

Andrew Faulkner (vice-chair)
University of Manchester Jodrell Bank Observatory
UK
Peter Hall
Curtin University
Australia
Jasper Horrell
SKA meerKAT project
South Africa
Dion Kant
ASTRON
The Netherlands
Anita Loots
SKA South Africa
South Africa
Rendong Nan
National Astronomical Observatories
China
John O'Sullivan
Australia Telescope National Facility
Australia
Parbhu Patel
ASTRON
The Netherlands
Ralph Spencer
University of Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory
UK
Richard Thompson
Retired (formerly National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
USA

Bruce Veidt
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
Canada

Sander Weinreb
Caltech University / JPL
USA
 

Task forces

> Antennas
Chair: Parbhu Patel

> RF Systems
Chair: Bruce Veidt

> System Engineering
Chair: Dick Thompson

> Signal transmission
Chair: Ralph Spencer

> Signal processing
Chair: Albert-Jan Boonstra

> RFI mitigation
Joint chairs: Steve Ellingson and Frank Briggs

> Computing
Chair: Jasper Horrell


> Industrial liaison
Chair: Peter Hall


>
Calibration and Imaging
Chair: Tim Cornwell



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