Review Projects
Contact & Resume
Flight Systems & Propulsion

Aerospace engineering with test-stand rigor

Undergraduate aerospace researcher developing supersonic nozzle geometries, structural finite element models, and telemetry packages for high-altitude sounding rockets and propulsion test articles.

Verified Metrics

Quantitative test parameters

3.88

Aerospace Major GPA

Mach 3.1

CFD Boundary Range

420 lbf

Static Fire Thrust Peak

6 Cycles

Aero-shell Design Revisions

Core Toolchain

Technical focus areas

Engineering workflows grounded in numerical simulation, mechanical fabrication, and embedded hardware validation for flight environments.

Aerodynamics
Structures
Avionics

Propulsion & Fluids

FEA & Composites

Guidance & Telemetry

Supersonic internal flow analysis in ANSYS Fluent, converging-diverging bell nozzle optimization, and cold-flow injector pressure drop characterization.

Static structural and modal vibration modeling in SolidWorks Simulation, carbon-fiber wet layups, and CNC fixture manufacturing with tight tolerances.

MATLAB trajectory state estimation, dual-event parachute deployment logic, and 900MHz RF sensor downlink integration on custom PCB stacks.

Methodology

Simulation verified at the test stand

Computational tools reveal theoretical performance, but physical test stands reveal thermal gradients, vibration modes, and seal degradation. Every simulation model undergoes mechanical verification against live sensor telemetry.

From hand-machining injector manifolds on a Bridgeport mill to post-processing high-rate thermocouple logs, hardware reliability demands closing the loop between CAD assumptions and physical failure limits.

Open Project Logs

Inspect detailed mission projects

Complete CAD assemblies, ANSYS residual plots, test stand hot-fire logs, and flight hardware post-mortems documented across rocketry and robotics programs.