• Coach a design team of first-year Mechanical Engineering students in Design for Manufacturing Lab (ME126L) - Facilitate learning with use of machining equipment (manual, CNC, woodworking), Autodesk Inventor, and Mechanical Engineering department resources - Critique design project feasibility and likelihood of success

• Acquired an in-depth understanding of thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) system operational principles, specifically for environmental testing of program-specific flight hardware - Designed and implemented a TVAC maintenance tracking system to ensure continuous chamber operation; structured for data-driven predictive maintenance - Revised coinciding internal maintenance documents and training guides to include additional maintenance procedures while simultaneously improving user comprehension - Optimized inventory management to guarantee the availability of critical parts• Gained additional familiarity with thermal chamber and vibration testing

• Generated space educational content for younger audiences under the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium with funding from NASA• Collaboratively reviewed lesson plans for a youth space camp that was later implemented