Background
Burke, Shawn Edmund was born on October 28, 1959 in Waterville, Maine, United States. Son of Frances Mary Burke.
Burke, Shawn Edmund was born on October 28, 1959 in Waterville, Maine, United States. Son of Frances Mary Burke.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, Princeton University, 1981. Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989.
Associate engineer, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980-1981; senior construction engineering, Chase Inc., Boston, 1984-1986; consultant scientist, Technology Integration, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, 1985; senior technical staff, Christian Science Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989-1994; principal system engineer Center for Photonics Research, Boston University, since 1994; research assistant professor department aerospace and mechanic engineering, Boston University, since 1994. Department instructor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1984-1985.
Volunteer Climb Against Cancer, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1990-1994. Reader Recording for Blind, Cambridge, 1991. Member Acoustical Society of America, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Sigma Xi.
Married Monica Arlene Schnitger, September 7, 1985.