Glenn Patterson Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Structural System Design, Impact and Containment Team• Delivering dynamic system solutions to ensure the safety, reliability, and performance for civil and defense aerospace products• Delivering early product design studies (TRL1-4), conducting design and analysis activity for development products (TRL5-9), and designing improvements for current products in-service (TRL9)• Qualifying the Pearl 700 and AE 3007N engines for engine ingestion and containment requirements for the G700 and MQ-25 Stingray aircrafts, respectively• Performing explicit non-linear transient dynamic Finite Element Analyses (FEA) in LS-DYNA, including Soft Body Impact, Trailing Blade Integrity, and Fan Blade-Off (FBO) Containment simulations• Supporting specimen, component, and system level testing by conducting pre-test simulations, identifying appropriate test conditions, witnessing the test, and post-processing and documenting the test• Improving the capabilities of the Structural System Design team by refining methods and creating tools in a variety of scripting languages• Preparing documentation for peer reviews, including PowerPoint and Word technical documents

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory• Worked with Dr. Razi Nalim on his research of a wave rotor combustion engine• Modeled fluid behavior within wave rotor using modified NASA quasi-one-dimensional Fortran CFD code for supercharger application for a snowmobile engine• Analyzed pressure and temperature data with self-written MatLab codes

London, England, Gb

Compressor Aerodynamics• Conducted simulations of compressor test rig geometry using bespoke Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code and performed detailed test-to-analysis assessments• Improved post-processing code to reduce test rig data from a developmental centrifugal compressor rig at Purdue University• Analyzed temperatures and secondary flows in knife-seal cavities of two builds of the Trent 1000-TEN high pressure axial compressor• Reviewed code rewrite for bespoke one-dimensional centrifugal compressor design Fortran code and incorporated a subroutine to calculate power windage in a rectangular cavity at the backplate of the compressor

Crawfordsville, In, Us

Tutored fellow undergraduate students taking introductory Physics courses two nights a week for three hours

Crawfordsville, In, Us

● Gained capstone research experience in experimental physics in the Advanced Laboratory course● Designed and engineered an optical collector for a stationary solar panel which was placed on the roof of the Department of Physics Building at Wabash College● Researched Pilot Wave Theory by investigating drops vibrating on a bath of silicone oil in a circular corral● Designed and tested an aerosol generator to load microspheres in a methanol solution into a linear Paul ion trap

Crawfordsville, In, Us

Provided academic support for students in the introductory Physics 111 course

Crawfordsville, In, Us

● Conducted nuclear physics research with Dr. James Brown and the MoNA collaboration, a partnership of about a dozen undergraduate institutions and laboratories● Measured direct-reaction neutrons and gathered nuclear-structure information from the 56Ni(d,n) reaction using the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA), the Large multi-Institutional Array (LISA), and Oak Ridge Laboratory’s Versatile Array of Neutron Detectors at Low-Energy (VANDLE) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University● Analyzed selected data from the experiment by using the data analysis framework called ROOT, developed by CERN

Carbondale, Il, Us

● Selected from nearly 200 applicants for a highly competitive 9-week REU program at SIUC funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)● Conducted research in Materials Science and Thermodynamics with Dr. Emmanuel Nsofor and Dr. Peter Filip, specifically compared two types of advanced carbon-carbon composite materials for aircraft brakes● Meticulously cut and prepared 6 samples from a standard 747 rotor and stator for microstructure experiments● Analyzed microstructures of brakes using polarized light microscopy (PLM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and x-ray diffraction● Presented research findings in a scientific paper and poster to the academic community at SIUC, including professors, deans, and trustees

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Physics

Education record

High School Diploma