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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Supervising final-year undergraduate engineering students from the University of Toronto and University of Alberta in designing a space system for a satellite capture mission, co-taught by MDA Space.Consulting with teams of students in the design of their mission concepts, with a focus on the electrical and controls design of their spacecraft.Assisting in systems and preliminary design reviews, evaluating mission concepts in terms of feasibility from a high-level engineering perspective.Marking technical reports submitted by teams according to principles of electrical and controls design, providing constructive feedback to elevate students' work to the standards expected from industry.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Analysed aerodynamic performance of Next Generation Regional Turboprop (NGRT), PW307, PW535A and PW815 axial compressors through numerical simulation, for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code validation.Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to develop CFD models and validate results, communicating technical findings through regular presentations to senior compressor aerodynamics engineers.Ensured compliance with state-of-the-art computational aerodynamics practices to ensure delivery of quality results, maintaining technical documentation of project results and work for repeatable analyses.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Designed, built and tested two novel oil viscosity measurement tools, for NASA Benchmark Validation Experiments for RANS and LES Investigations (BeVERLI) Hill using oil film interferometry (OFI).Won first place at the University of Toronto Undergraduate Engineering Research Day (2021) for presented results.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leading physics tutorials and mentorship activities for incoming first-year engineering students at the University of Toronto.Graded and provided constructive feedback on students' assignments regarding material covered in virtual learning sessions.Hosted mentorship activities aimed towards acquainting incoming first-year students to engineering in university, as well as making connections in a largely-virtual learning environment.

Master Of Applied Science, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Thesis: Dissipation-Based Homotopy Continuation Methods for Steady Aerodynamic Flows

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Activities and Societies: Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Band, Junior Band, Music Council, Senior Band, Symphony Orchestra, FIRST Robotics Team.