Eric Villeneuve
Operations Engineer Mechanical
Biography
As a development and operations engineer at the ACE facility, Eric's responsibilities are broken into two categories; facility operations and developmental research.
As an operations engineer, he is responsible for facility upkeep and leading client testing in ACE's environmental and vibrations labs. He has led and executed testing in the following sectors:
- Automotive & Transportation
- Architecture & Civil Engineering
- Aerospace & Defense
- Sustainable Power Generation
- Human Physiology & Performance
As a development engineer, his responsibilities are enhancing ACE's testing capabilities and pushing the envelope of existing testing techniques by conducting research in conjunction with the university and customers. Eric manages all the facility's testing and research in the field of meteorology and precipitation replication. Eric strives to better understand and replicate real-world precipitation using particle image velocimetry, high-speed imagery, and precipitation characterization.
