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Alan Hansen is a researcher whose career spans several decades and touches on three interconnected domains: robotics and automation, precision navigation systems, and hands-on engineering education. Early in his career, Hansen contributed to the application of robotics in biological research, co-developing a high-speed automated colony-picking machine in the early 1990s that used computer vision and X-Y-Z precision placement to identify and array bacterial colonies into microtiter plates — a meaningful advancement in laboratory automation at the time. His most-cited work, published in 2019, shifts focus to geospatial technology, evaluating the accuracy and precision of low-cost RTK GNSS systems and accumulating 33 citations — demonstrating his versatility and continued relevance across disciplines. Hansen has also invested significantly in robotics education, contributing to initiatives such as the EDULAB project and developing experience-oriented student laboratory frameworks that bring hands-on robotics learning to engineering curricula. Taken together, his body of work reflects a researcher equally committed to practical technological innovation and the cultivation of the next generation of engineers, bridging laboratory automation, precision sensing, and pedagogical design across a career of notable breadth.