Carson Keith Email & Phone Number

During the summer of 2024, I worked my first internship at a civil engineering company. Being in the aviation discipline, I worked in a professional office setting with other engineers and project managers and assisted them with real-world airport project tasks throughout the 3-month program. My exposure to that lent me the understanding of the typical project structure and the appreciation for the effectiveness of a professional engineering team collaborating to finish project tasks.I understand communication is particularly important when overcoming complications in the engineering field, for which my prior work experience as a Lifeguard and Lifeguard Assistant Manager, along with my current University Technology Services & Support job have helped me with. In those jobs, I constantly interacted and continue to interact with 25+ persons daily in-person or over the phone to troubleshoot and maintain efficiency, at a swimming pool or university. Even so during busy hours, where multiple people need assistance and I must coordinate with co-workers and manage multiple situations myself. Those situations have taught me continuous task management and boosted my interaction/conversational skills with anybody, from little kids to senior adults.During the school year, along with being a full-time student, I am one of the chief engineers on the Space City Aeronautics Team for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) organization chapter at the University of Houston. Our mission each year is to design, build, test, and evaluate a large remote-controlled aircraft. Each week, I am working with at least twelve others on the team either on a computer, or in a Laboratory: coordinating design changes, testing aircraft components, referencing the strict competition rules, and documenting our work in a design report. Along with being a chief engineer for Space City Aeronautics, I am also part of a research program called the Undergraduate Student Instrument Program Six (USIP VI) at the University of Houston. Five team members including me will redesign and build an improved version from a previous Microplastics experiment which attaches to a high-altitude balloon and measures particles in the stratosphere. Each week, my team and I are discussing project constraints, utilizing CAD software to refine components of the experiment, updating GANTT charts to coordinate our efforts and efficiently move through tasks all while documenting our work for the professors to review.

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  University Of Houston

  Sophomore