Rhonwen Smith

SC Solutions is a high-technology company located in the heart of Silicon Valley, specializing in Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The company is 100% employee-owned. The Structural Engineering Division has extensive experience in high-end numerical analysis of complex civil and mechanical systems. With roots in the energy and aerospace industries, SC Solutions today focuses on complex structures in a wide range of industries. Over the last twenty-five years, SC Solutions has developed a unique structural analysis methodology based on a combination of performance-based design procedures coupled with nonlinear time history analysis and soil structure interaction. The Systems and Controls Division has extensive experience in control design, modeling of physical systems, software development, optimization, system identification, fault diagnostics, and signal processing. SC Solutions creates products and provides consulting and R&D solutions for semiconductor and advanced materials manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, aerospace, and defense industries. Examples of applications include various techniques for thin film deposition, thermal systems, electrochemical systems, mechatronics, robotics, and quantum information processing. SC Solutions’ Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering team has decades of wide-ranging industry experience. We bring expertise in the aerospace industry and satellite communication, together with mechanical design, structural analysis and dynamics, attitude control, payload architecture, antenna engineering, and thermal analysis. We have worked with launch vehicles, satellites, space shuttles, ground support equipment, biotechnology, and racecars. We bring creativity and focus to every project. Most of our team members have advanced degrees in their fields and are leaders in their areas of expertise. We bring design, analysis, qualification, and testing experience for our valued customers.